The Kiss Painting By Gustav Klimt

The Kiss Painting by Gustav Klimt

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tomgurneyThe Kiss Painting

is a remarkable Gustav Klimt painting which is perhaps the most popular choice around the world for art buyers looking for a reproduction or print for their home.

Klimt paintings

have a great place in the art world after the original works by this Austrian artist. Gustav Klimt’s respected technique of gold shades with symbolic touches is what makes him so memorable and The Kiss is the best example of it. The more one examines the work, the more there is to admire.

Gustav Klimt’s best oil paintings are regularly exhibited all over the world because of this popularity and most commonly in his native Austria and Vienna, were many collections are held. The Museum of Applied Arts and the Belvedere have some of the best collections of Klimt paintings. The Kiss is also easy to find in most print and reproductions shops around the world, counting amongst the best selling alongside the likes of the Mona Lisa and various works by Monet and Van Gogh.

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The Kiss depicts two symbolic lovers together with a brilliant use of color and style. Most have put the painting into the fields of Art Nouveau and Modernist art styles with similarities to works by Edgar Degas.

Klimt played an important role in Viennese Society of this era and his close relationships with galleries and museums across Austria was important to furthering his career. Klimt followers enjoyed his use of golden backgrounds, intensive colors & ornamental picturing.

During an exciting career, Klimt’s other famous paintings included Beethoven Frieze, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Tree of Life, Avenue in Schloss Kammer Park, Dana , The Friends, M da Primavesi, Virgin, Death And Life, Dancer, Johanna Staude, Music and Forest Birch Trees.

The Secession Movement is not as well known as impressionism and cubism but Klimt managed to hold his own fame thanks to a unique style which went beyond the movement itself. Klimt paintings reflect his whole career with different art movements as he learnt his trade, then found his own style after gaining practice, development and experience. Gustav Klimt also travelled around Europe to learn more about other art scenes of the time, such as France and Italy.

To conclude, The Kiss is a great painting by Klimt, from a career that remains well worth studying and enjoying in equal measures, as well as a great print for your home.

The Kiss Painting

is ready to buy as reproduction from the Oil Painting Shop. You can also find

The Kiss print

here.

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