The Kiss (in German Liebespaar , Lovers ) is an oil painting, with additional silver and gold leaf by Austrian symbol painter Gustav Klimt, and painted between 1907 and 1908 during Klimt's "Golden Age" peak. The painting depicts couples embracing each other, their bodies entwined in an elaborate robe decorated in a style influenced by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Art and Craft movement. The painting hangs in the ÃÆ'-sterreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, and is widely regarded as the early work of the modern period. It is an icon of Jugendstil - Vienna Art Nouveau - and is considered Klimt's most popular work.
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Love, intimacy, and sexuality are common themes found in Gustav Klimt's work. The Stoclet Frieze and Beethoven Frieze are examples of Klimt's focus on romantic intimacy. Both works are precursors to The Kiss and feature repetitive motives of the embraced couple.
It is thought that Klimt and his companion Emilie FlÃÆ'¶ge imitate the work, but there is no evidence or record to prove this point. Others say that women are a model known as 'Red Hilda'; he has a strong resemblance to the model in his book Women with boa feathers , Mas Fish and Funds .
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Description
Gustav Klimt described the couple as locked in an intimate embrace of gold, a flat background. Both figures are located on the edge of a patch of meadow flowers that ends under the feet of the affected woman. The man wore a cloak that was printed with geometric patterns and fine circles. He wears a crown of vines while she wears a flower crown. She is shown in a floral dress. The man's face was not shown to the audience and vice versa, his face bent downward to press the kiss onto her cheek, and his hand held her face. His eyes closed, with one hand wrapped around his neck, the other resting gently in his hand, and his face turned upside down to receive his kiss.
The patterns in the painting show the Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the Arts and Crafts movement. At the same time, the background evokes conflict between two and three dimensions that are intrinsic to Degas and other modernist works. Paintings like The Kiss are visual manifestations of fin-de-siecle spirits as they capture the decadence conveyed by fancy and sensual images. The use of gold leaves is reminiscent of medieval "goldland" paintings, illuminated manuscripts, early mosaics, and spiral patterns in clothing that remind the art of the Bronze Age and the ornamental foliage seen in Western art since ancient times. The man's head ends very close to the top of the canvas, a departure from traditional Western canons reflecting the influence of Japanese prints, as well as the simplified composition of the painting.
The use of gold by Klimt was inspired by the journey he did to Italy in 1903. When he visited Ravenna he saw the Byzantine mosaic at the San Vitale Church. For Klimt, the mosaics and lack of perspectives and depth only enhanced their golden excellence, and he began to use the never-before-used gold and silver in his own work.
It has also been argued that in this picture Klimt symbolizes when Apollo kisses Daphne, following the Ovid narrative metamorphosis.
Reception
Klimt painted The Kiss shortly after his three-part Vienna Pleiling series, which created a scandal and was criticized as 'pornography' and 'misleading discrepancy' evidence. His works have reproduced the artist as a very bad man for his anti-authoritarian and anti-popular view of art. He writes, "If you can not please everyone with your deeds and your art, please some".
The Kiss , however, was enthusiastically received, and purchased, still unfinished, by the Austrian government when it was publicly displayed.
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In February 2013, Syrian artist Tammam Azzam overflowed the picture of the painting into a bombed building in an unknown part of Syria, in a work called Freedom Graffiti, to draw attention to the war's suffering in his country.
In 2012, 20th Century Fox released the action/romance movie This Means War starring Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, and Chris Pine. The film features scenes where Pine and Witherspoon characters tour a personal Klimt collection, with The Kiss being a focus part.
References
Source
- Alfred Weidinger, Stefanie Penck: Gustav Klimt The Kiss . Berlin, Jovis Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859-310-5
- Schwartz, Agatha. Gender and Modernity in Central Europe . University of Ottawa Press, 2010. ISBNÃ, 0-7766-0726-X
- Partsch, Susanna. Klimt: Life and Work . London, Bracken Books, 1989. ISBNÃ, 1-85170-286-5
- O'Connor, Anne-Marie (2012). The Lady in Gold, Extraordinary Story by Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer , Alfred A. Knopf, New York, ISBN: 0-307-26564-1.
- Julio Vives Chillida, "El significado iconogrÃÆ'¡fico de El beso (los sixorados), de Gustav Klimt", comunicaciÃÆ'³n al primer International Congress of the Fouet Art nouveau coup , Barcelona, ​​â € <
- Contributors to the Art Story. "Artist Gustav Klimt's Overview and Analysis". [Internet]. 2018. TheArtStory.org
External links
- Gustav Klimt at ÃÆ'-sterreichische Galerie Belvedere
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