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The Kiss
The Kiss
Year of creation: 1907
The Kiss is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what scholars call his "Golden Period".
Klimt depicts the couple locked in an intimate embrace against a gold, flat background. The two figures are situated at the edge of a patch of flowery meadow that ends under the woman's exposed feet. The man wears a robe printed with geometric patterns and subtle swirls. He wears a crown of vines while the woman wears a crown of flowers.
Klimt painted The Kiss soon after his three-part Vienna Ceiling series, which created a scandal and were criticized as both "pornographic" 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.
Orientation: Portrait
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Artistic Movement: Modern Art
Restoration: Medium
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Era :1900/1950
Original Format : Oil and gold leaf on Canvas/180 cm × 180 cm
Original Location : Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Source : Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna, Austria, acc. num. 912, ID:6678, coll. Google Art Project
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GMC Copyright : 96074-1
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