Expressionist Artists in Vienna - Gustav Klimt's - The Kiss
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Klimt, as I said, Klimt painted a symbolical topics and Kiss, the most popular painting
from him is one of them. It's, what we can see, a human pair, disappearing in a hug,
in a big hug, and so we can see moving, movement on the painting. And it means that although
he used on the painting as well gold leaf, as nearly every painting of him we can see,
he used other decorations in the background. And what is interesting about this painting
that it was already popular in its time, and it was bought by the Austrian state. So for
the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century, Klimt was accepted as a painter,
as a popular painter. And it's called for the altar of love and so on, but what is important
that naked bodies have contact on and what kind of reflect they made to each other. It's
rather important, so that could be one of the reasons why it's so popular until now.