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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born July 14, 1862 in Baumgarten, a suburb of Vienna. The son of a goldsmith and engraver of a small Viennese social conditions, in 1876 he enrolled at the school of arts and crafts of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry. Klimt began his career as an official artist, creating decorative paintings of various public buildings.

In 1897, Klimt was a founder and first president of Wiener Secession (Vienna Secession), becoming, thus, the symbolic representative of the Austrian Art Nouveau.

Between 1905 and 1909, Klimt created the precious mosaic for the dining room of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels, his most famous work.

Gustav Klimt
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Cartoons for the Stoclet frieze

Klimt, using decorative innovations 's Art Nouveau, a movement mainly related to the applied arts, which became the largest representative in the field of painting, he developed a style inspired by rich and complex, often, the composition of the Byzantine mosaics, who studied in Ravenna. The contact with the Byzantine mosaics Klimt door to discover the value and brightness. In introducing the works' use of gold looking for a new balance between the sensuality of the female figure and the preciousness of the decorative motif. This is called the period "golden" (1905-09).

Far from the current state of the art of painting of the period and in contact with the most innovative aspects of architecture and design of the twentieth century, Klimt was a supporter of young artists, including Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele .

In his work, opposed to conservative ideas, overcoming barriers and prohibitions and creating erotic paintings and symbols that represent the dreams, hopes, fears and passions.

The ideal of beauty for Klimt was the young woman, erotic and seductive to humans, but denoted, especially in the drawings, melancholy and loneliness.
He also painted landscapes, of particular value that achieved in the last part of its business.

died February 6, 1918, following a stroke.

"The Kiss" is an oil painting on canvas made in 1907-08, inspired by the Art Nouveau style, with gold decoration and mosaics in the background. The kiss is the culmination of the "golden age" and is a synthesis of art and cultural world of Gustav Klimt. There is the culture of Vienna and the school of Freud with his sexual symbolism, evident in the dress of man rectangles and circles drawn on the woman, there is love for the beauty, gold, magnificence of Vienna of Franz Joseph, that surrounds the characters, there is the strength of feeling of the Viennese Secession in the lines of the faces, pale in the incarnate of the woman.

The woman's face is enclosed in the hands of a male who has the arm of the female neck.
Klimt has dressed his characters with a long tunic, that allows you to pack them in single intimacy that leaves uncovered only the arms, face and knee of the woman giving the impression of nudity and simplicity of passion. The feelings are at once authentic and individual but conforming to the roles: the sense of total abandonment and dedication Women's bent towards the man, represented leaning forward in an attitude of tenderness and force protection against those who abandon themselves totally to him.