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Feb 23, 2021 · 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 embrace in typical Art Nouveau style.Not only is this painting the most loved and celebrated of Klimt’s paintings, but it is ...
Mar 14, 2024 · The Kiss, oil and gold painting by Gustav Klimt that was completed in 1908. It is considered to be one of the best paintings of the Vienna Sezession and is perhaps the most popular of Klimt’s works. Klimt studied at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts, and his early work was typical of the academic painting of the late 19th century.
The Kiss. The painting "The Kiss" from 1908/09 is undoubtedly Klimt's best-known work today. A pair of lovers, kneeling on a flower meadow and wearing lavish golden robes, seem to be floating before an infinite cosmos of golden fog. This mystical backdrop further enhances the transcendental effect of the painting.
Dec 12, 2023 · 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 ...
Gustav Klimt’s ‘Golden Epoch’ reached its peak with The Kiss (1907-1908). Perhaps European art as a whole at the end of the 19th Century finds its most complete expression in this grand, erotic painting. It has become one of the most famous pictures in history, being reproduced and parodied everywhere from The Simpsons to contemporary ...
Gustav Klimt 1908-1909. “The Kiss”, probably the most popular work by Gustav Klimt, was first exhibited in 1908 at the Kunstschau art exhibition on the site of today’s Konzerthaus. The Ministry bought it from there for the sum of 25,000 Kronen and thus secured for the state one of the icons of Viennese Jugendstil and indeed of European ...
Mar 8, 2024 · The Kiss by Klimt. The official colours of Vienna are red and white. The unofficial ones are the black and gold colours of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss: a truly iconic painting and the city’s greatest art treasure. Klimt’s famous work, created 1907-1908. Painting’s past is surprisingly uneventful.
