Gustav Klimts The Kiss is characteristic of his work: erotically charged and embellished with highly ornamental areas of decoration and dazzling gold tones. Klimt was a brilliant Austrian iconoclast who rose from an impoverished childhood to become an artist of enormous significance to the Viennese Secession and the art nouveau movement. He primarily produced extravagant paintings and murals that were explicitly sensual, as well as works expressing themes of regeneration, love and death. Klimt (1862-1918) was inspired by an eclectic scope of influences, including Egyptian, Classical Greek, Byzantine and Medieval styles. His works often utilized symbolic elements to emphasize the freedom of art from traditional culture. Although numerous works were incomplete when Klimt died, their high asking price was a testament to the thriving legacy he left behind. The Kiss, created in 1907-08, is a monument to love and one of Klimts most transcendent images. Only the faces and hands of this c

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