I don't know why, but this piece of work just struck me. The first time I saw it was in Vienna (which is where it was painted by Gustav Klimt). I was in Vienna with Jonesie on our way back to the states after an amazing trip to visit Slovenija, where we had served our missions. I saw this and loved it from the second I saw it. I love the colors, the imagery, just everything about it. I usually don't like abstract art, but I like the man and woman's clothing and how it's just abstract enough to make it different. Below is a description of the art I found on the internet:Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), is a curious and elegant synthesis of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. The Austrians responded enthusiastically to the decorative artifice of Art Nouveau, and Klimt is almost artifice incarnate. He painted large ornamental friezes of allegorical scenes, and produced fashionable portraits, uniting the stylized shapes and unnatural colors of Symbolism with his own essentially harmonious concept of beauty.
The Kiss is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.
The Kiss is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.
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I have a print of this picture and once wrote a paper on it. Supposedly the artist got in trouble after it was unvieled because the face of the woman was the face of the wife of a local man. Hmmm, shocking. I love the colors but I wonder about the woman. Is she extremely happy and content or is she just wishing she was somewhere else. I am never sure. I once had a professor who said she was dead. I'm not sure if I agree with that.
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