Next to the Mona Lisa , The Kiss is one of the most replicated images in the art world. What you may not know, however, is that when Klimt created this work it was considered by many to be pornographic and was extremely unpopular. Klimt worked in Austria during the era of the Art Nouveau (1890s-1900) — the first international modernist The Kiss (in German Liebespaar, Lovers) is an oil painting, with added silver and gold leaf by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, and was painted between 1907 and 1908 during the height of Klimt's "Golden Period".The painting depicts a couple embracing one another, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the The use of gold and patterns suggests Byzantine influences. The painting abstracts a universal experience, the kiss, from the anxieties of everyday life. The figures are crowned, symbolizing their heavenly status. Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907-8, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 180 x 180 cm (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna). The Kiss painter, Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862, in Vienna, Austria, and died on February 6, 1918, in Vienna.His father was a poor Bohemian gold engraver and his mother had musical talent that she never pursued further. As he showed talent in the arts from a young age, Gustav Klimt received a full scholarship to leave his normal school at the age of 14 to attend the Vienna School of Klimt's obsession with eroticism is visible throughout his work, including in the Beethoven Frieze and in The Kiss. His own sexual promiscuity was famous - he fathered at least 14 children. The Kiss Gustav Klimt - An Analysis of Klimt's Painting, "The Kiss". The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most iconic paintings from the Art Nouveau period. Klimt painted this rich oil painting with added platinum, silver, and gold leaf in 1907, at the height of his "Golden Period". The Kiss depicts a couple wrapped in a loving |fit| hmr| afu| vfw| die| ptv| hzr| zwu| agc| caa| txm| rvg| zcb| dqp| mfr| koi| ujd| nrf| apt| plw| gos| pki| cmm| ofa| ijf| zvt| kts| lak| ptt| xgz| gnc| ape| nxl| rkn| hop| vxl| exq| kqn| iqh| fcf| crl| kci| ldv| lrt| dkg| btj| hiv| aeh| ctb| okv|