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ART APPRECIATION THREAD The Kiss---Gustav Klimt's most famous work
WEB MUSEUM ^ | 19 Aug 2002 | © Nicolas Pioch

Posted on 06/01/2005 12:56:16 PM PDT by Liz

Just as Munch can be associated with both Symbolism and Expressionism, so the art of the Austrian painter, 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

1907-08 (100 Kb); 180 x 180 cm (71 x 71 in); Österreichisches Galerie Wien, Vienna
Man leaning over and kissing kneeling woman. All shrouded in symbolically patterned gold. A bed of flowers below them.


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KLIMT LANDSCAPE

KLIMT'S SUNSITE

1 posted on 06/01/2005 12:56:17 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

He should have stuck to landscapes.


2 posted on 06/01/2005 12:58:37 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: Sam Cree; Joe 6-pack; iceskater; Conspiracy Guy; B Knotts; Dolphy; Intolerant in NJ; PGalt; ...

art thread ping


3 posted on 06/01/2005 12:59:09 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz

Is this ART APPRECIATION THREAD something new?


4 posted on 06/01/2005 12:59:24 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Liz

Love his work.


5 posted on 06/01/2005 12:59:44 PM PDT by spyone
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To: Pyro7480

It's interesting that Klimt's landscape is immediately identifiable as his work, even though it is far removed from his thematic The Kiss.


6 posted on 06/01/2005 1:01:39 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz

let me guess...you're in love?


7 posted on 06/01/2005 1:01:53 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool...any volunteers???)
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To: nuconvert
Not new, not old. Get on the ping list if you're one of the few, the proud.

I love these art threads and I don't leave home without thinking of them.

Leni

8 posted on 06/01/2005 1:02:55 PM PDT by MinuteGal (I Feel Like I'm Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe)
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To: nuconvert

Sort of new---I started the theme back during Pope JP11's funeral with a thread on the magnificent Bernini altar at the Vatican. Was so popular we compiled an art ping list. Signal if you want to be on it. Sam Cree and I mind the list.


9 posted on 06/01/2005 1:04:46 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz

Re: The Kiss

:-p


10 posted on 06/01/2005 1:05:36 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Liz

Thnaks for the thread. I love Klimt's work.


11 posted on 06/01/2005 1:06:21 PM PDT by Bella_Bru (In Mercuristan, such questions are not tolerated.)
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To: ken5050

Oh, Ken (blush). Actually I was inspired by a recent addition to my art library--a volume on the subject of Klimt, after a friend bought one of his works.


12 posted on 06/01/2005 1:07:18 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz; ken5050

L I Z
H A S
A
B O Y Y Y Y Y Y F R I E N D
neener neener neeeeeeeeeneeeerrrrrr
< |:)~


13 posted on 06/01/2005 1:07:30 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Liz
Add me to your list if you do not mind an undiluted hater of Modern un-art.
14 posted on 06/01/2005 1:07:32 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Mark in the Old South

I see you're all puckered up----grin.


15 posted on 06/01/2005 1:08:03 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz

Thanks man, I love Klimt.


16 posted on 06/01/2005 1:08:32 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: martin_fierro

Marty, you know you're the only one for me (giggle).


17 posted on 06/01/2005 1:08:55 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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To: Liz

It's a sweet picture.

I like it. :) I wouldn't hang it in my bedroom, maybe my office.

That's how I judge art ;)


18 posted on 06/01/2005 1:09:15 PM PDT by najida (www.lotusdance.com/FreeperettesHunks.html)
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To: Liz

What do I know, I think they're all pretty. But good grief, when that woman stands up she'll tower over him by about 2'. (Obviously, he has other attributes though!)


19 posted on 06/01/2005 1:11:05 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: BerthaDee; Bella_Bru; spyone

Laura Payne's "Essential Klimt" (UK publisher) is a wonderful resource.....juxtaposes color plates of his works to illustrate similarities, and the evolution of his technique.


20 posted on 06/01/2005 1:15:06 PM PDT by Liz (A society of sheep must, in time, beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal)
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