Gustav Klimt
Perhaps this work by Klimt is one of the most famous, most admired and most written about painting in the history of art. What can I say that hasn't already been said? Not much, I fear, so for once technique gives way to emotion, which is after all what always guides us when we indulge in the pleasures of art.
Klimt believed that all art is erotic, and he investigated at length the female world, revealing its fantasies and its innocence. In "The Kiss" it is again the woman who expresses the more intense feeling, an emotion so full and complete because it represents a moment of total abandon in the arms of the man who embraces her with a sense of strength and protection.
What I see, and what Klimt successfully managed to represent, is the moment in which the woman is completely fulfilled by the love of her man.
If you still wonder why this work is so famous, I ask you: can you imagine anything more powerful than the motion these lovers are expressing, isolated as they are in their world of sensuality and spirituality in a triumph of eros, balanced between salvation and perdition?
Mosaic made of glass paste tiles. Work commissioned by Mosaici Veneziani.
Dimensions: 140 x 70 cm.
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