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TITLE: The Kiss
ARTIST: Gustav Klimt
SIZE:
22.8" x 22.8"
PIECES: 800
PRICE: $200
MADE BY: Wentworth
DESCRIPTION: Gustav Klimt first made himself
known by the decorations he executed (with his brother and their art
school companion F. Matsch), for numerous theatres and above all (on his
own this time) for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he
completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart. At
the age of thirty he moved into his own studio and turned to easel
painting. At thirty-five he was one of the founders of the Vienna
Secession; he withdrew eight years later, dismayed by the increasingly
strong trend towards naturalism. The sumptuous surface of Klimt's work is
by no means carefree. Its decorative tracery expresses a constant tension
between ecstasy and terror, life and death. Even the portraits, with their
timeless aspect, may be perceived as defying fate.
This painting by the German artist Gustav Klimt
was completed in 1908 and currently hangs in the Austrian Gallery, Vienna.
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