RE: ADSactly Culture - The Ten Most Famous Paintings of All Time (Part I)
I do not know whether you heard or not, but there is a story about the writing of the painting "The Kiss", which can be safely attributed to the legend. A certain earl ordered a painting from the artist, where he would be imprinted with his beloved in a passionate kiss. He also handed Klimt a medallion with a portrait of his beloved. The artist set to work, and soon was able to provide it to the court graph. The canvas was incredibly liked by the count, but he could not refrain from asking why in the picture their lips never joined in a kiss. Klimt parried - he wanted to portray the atmosphere of desire and passion, which is about to push his loved ones in his arms. Both the customer and his beloved loved the picture. Soon they were leaving for a honeymoon trip. Some biographers recall that later Klimt allegedly revealed the secret of this “unresolved kiss” - while working with the medallion, the artist himself fell in love with a young girl, and the unfinished kiss turned out to be a little revenge, caused by a feeling of jealousy of the successful graph.
It is no coincidence that “The Kiss” became the most famous work of the artist, because the picture concentrated all the main sign elements of the composition, characteristic of the master's handwriting. We meet the flower meadows in the landscape works of the author, the complex whimsical ornament is the leitmotif of the overwhelming number of mature works, and the gold-trimmed Klimt is especially carried away in the last years of his creative work.
In your comment you walked not only through the characteristic of Klimt's painting, but also through one of the great myths behind this work. In fact, there are those who say that the woman in the painting may be an old lover of the artist. In short, the interesting thing about all this is the infinite amount of stories that can be woven behind the artist and his work. It would be interesting to make a post with only those stories and curiosities. Thank you for commenting, @aydogdy
When I look at the picture "The Kiss", I see how a man has a pronounced overriding function - he towers over his beloved, at the same time protecting and dominating. The kneeling pose of the girl shows us a subordinate state, although the man himself is also kneeling. Moreover, despite the intimacy of the moment, the viewer does not have the sensation of spying - the characters are not hiding from anyone. Their image is characterized by some kind of an imperviously simple mortal cosmic state, where only they exist, immersed in each other.