It is a very large painting which envelops you as the mosaic of the motifs envelops the two lovers.
The Kiss
, painted between 1908 and 1909 by Gustav Klimt, is a square canvas.
“She will be 1.80 m by 1.80 m.
The format, rather rare, will increase the impression I want to give, of closure and equality in proportions.
But its realization will be long, months, years perhaps, to reach the point of acme, to the equilibrium, when all around the threat still weighs ”
, explains the Austrian painter, a shaggy colossus, to his muse Émilie Flöge, imperial like a Byzantine Virgin.
She is a milliner, stylist, seamstress, dresses the wealthy elite of Vienna, the flower of the aristocracy.
In its collections, infuse traces of Klimt's art.
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Very modern, broad geometric-patterned fabrics, which she shapes into loose dresses, like the vast tunics of this
"threatening-looking
Klimt
, of an ancient prophet or of a sacred druid"
.
Doctor in history of art and mentalities, Alain Vircondelet
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