Gustav Klimt The Kiss--Museum Quality Reproduction by our Top Arsit:

Abstract Painting RCX-035

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Painting Name: The Kiss

Original Size: 180*180cm

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Introduction of " The Kiss":

The Kiss was painted by the famous Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, the highpoint of his "Golden Period", when he created a number of works in a similar gilded style. A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. The painting is composed of conventional oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf, an aspect that gives it its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance. The painting is now in the sterreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, and is widely considered a masterpiece of the early modern period. It is a symbol of Vienna Jugendstil—Viennese Art Nouveau—and is considered Gustav Klimt's most popular and important work. (Gustav Klimt--The Kiss)

Gustav Klimt was 45 when he painted The Kiss, still living with his mother and two unmarried sisters. Behind the respectable facade, he was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite; he fathered at least three known illegitimate children. This painting reflects his fascination with eroticism, and while its overall architecture is obviously phallic, it is renowned because of its tender representation of the female model who is tightly embraced within the overall geometry of the picture and whose body is formed from the most detailed, colourful and best expressed abstract passages of Gustav Klimt's career. In its tenderness, the painting deviates from his typical portrayal of woman as distant femme fatales; here the female is the protagonist, rather than merely the object of desire.

Although the painting, today, is one of the most popular and recognisable works of art, it was painted soon after his three-part Vienna Ceiling series which created a scandal and were criticized as both 'pornography' and evidence of 'perverted excess'. The works had recast the artist as an enfant terrible for his anti-authoritarian and anti-popularist views on art. He wrote, "If you can not please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few". By contrast, The Kiss was enthusiastically received, and immediately found a buyer.

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