The Kiss (1907–1908) famous painting. Original from Wikimedia Commons.
Year: 1907-1908 | Medium: Oil and leaf on canvas | Location: Belvedere, Vienna
Gustav Klimt, an Austrian Symbolist painter, created The Kiss between 1907 and 1908. Scholars believed this was the height of Klimt’s “Golden Period.” This glimmering piece was done with oil on canvas, but Klimt added gold leaf, silver, and platinum to make it shine. The work depicts two lovers embracing (hence its original name Liebespaar, or the lovers), adorned in robes of an Art Nouveau style.
Today, this renowned oil painting hangs in the Baroque building complex, the Belvedere, in Vienna, Austria. It’s considered a masterpiece of the Vienna Succession (a Viennese version of Art Nouveau) and is Klimt’s most famous piece.
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