Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (canvas)

Description

To give greater depth to the work, the artist plays with the contrasts of tones and colors together with a use of floral motifs and Geometric. The man wears a gold tunic with black and white rectangles while the woman's dress features spirals and colored circles. The use of these complementary forms on the robes of the two protagonists indicate opposite sex and personalities who meet and complete in the moment of the kiss. The life that blossoms around the symbolized by the turf, and the physical ecstasy and transformed into gold clouds, are the clues of a work that transmits the passion of falling in love at the moment when the two lovers they become a single body. If we see only the profile and the nape of the woman's neck, it is possible to admire the thin hands and the face with closed eyes, to express the transport of feeling. Own Thanks to this choice of the painter it is possible to understand how to Klimt is the woman who is the pivotal point and how she is the one who has to communicate with the observer. What transpires from the painter's canvas Viennese is not only passion but opera is able to tell a a loving feeling that has neither time nor boundaries.The work is performed through the technique of Pictography, according to ancient methods and natural materials; it is handmade entirely in Umbria.