Compare And Contrast The Kiss Vs Klimt

The two art works being discussed are similar in many aspects. The first painting The Kiss was created by a man named Gustav Klimt in 1907. This painting is oil and gold leaf on canvas and is about 5’ 10”- 5’ 10”. The Kiss was created in Vienna, Austria and was a reflection of his own personal life and that of his lover (Janson 921). The painting is now currently located at the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. The second painting being compared to Klimt’s The Kiss is Edvand Munch’s painting which is similarly named The Kiss and was created in 1897 with oil on canvas. This painting is about 99 x 81 cm big and is currently located in the museum The Much Museum in Oslo, Norway. This painting inspired Gustav Klimt’s painting and both …show more content…
Munch uses a lot of dark colors and only a few light colors to show the form is not a single form but two forms. The subject matter of both is a woman and man kissing. In Munch’s painting the woman and man are also coming together to make it look like one subject matter when in fact its two. The viewer can tell there are two subject matters due to the use of shading and color placement. The man and woman are composed of the same colors however Munch uses different tones of these colors to show the human forms of the subject matters. Munch then uses a light color on the human forms in the areas of the face and hands to show that this figure is not one figure but two human forms coming together in an embrace. Munch and Klimt’s paintings are different in the aspect of color composition. Munch uses dark color and shading to show the differences in his human forms while Klimt uses light colors of gold and different shades of gold to show his human forms. One similarity between the two is Munch and Klimt stick to one particular color and use different shades of that color to show the form of their