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| Between 1906 and 1909 Gustav Klimt painter and Austrian graphic designer Symbolist and representative of the Art nouveau Viennese seeks another expressivity for his works. He takes as a starting point the symbolism and the Japanese prints.Art must have a new definition in the company and this research is expressed here with the Kiss. Its art is made of modernity and a very close relationship with the erotism. The artist seeks to give a dimension almost crowned to his fabric. It is about the topic of the pressure in love. A couple is intertwined on a floor of flowers resembling a meadow, it is wrapped in a full gilded clothing. The decoration of this cape, with the image of a mosaic, varies according to the sex: black and white rectangles for the man, of the coloured circles and the flowers for the woman. Of this emergent unit heads and the hands which constitute the expression of a great intimacy. The knelt womangives herself to her companion the closed eyes and lets herself go to passion love. Work evokes a world of harmony where the couple is insulated in sublimation from the feeling in love, being unaware of the world real and evolving in an unreal and idealized world makes of a great power in love. Klimt compared the sexual pleasure to the artistic joy and gave him a spiritual dimension. It was also particularly attached to the representation of the ideal beauty. The Kiss is most famous of works of Klimt, and one generally regards it as the top of his "gilded period". Period when the geometrical reasons threatened to absorb the human factor. Klimt manages here to maintain balance thanks to a representation of the characters full with force and sensuality: the knelt position of the couple, the powerful pressure of the man and the extasié face of the woman give to the two lovers a great presence. The majority of works of Klimt give place to many interpretations, but one can see in the Kiss, the ultimate achievement of the human search of happiness. |