Klimt The Kiss Analysis

The first piece that I’m going to discuss is “The kiss” by Klimt. I’m so moved by this painting not for the depiction itself but for the technique and time that he used. This is perhaps Klimt's most popular and notorious artwork of sexual love. The kiss is a very dynamic and distinctive piece in that you can clearly tell that the man and woman are in some form of love (or maybe they are just friends). The man that alone makes the piece is holding the woman so closely and lovingly. At the same time, the couple appears to be entangled in the warmth of the gold blanket or cover in which they lie in. The background suggests a night sky, or maybe a cloudy time during the day, but it’s definitely dark outside. The two bodies appear to almost teeter at the edge of a flowery meadow atop what looks to be a cliff or some may say that it may appear that they are laying down in the flowery meadow. Depending on how you interpreted it, it will either give the notion that they are in danger of cascading into the darkness down below the cliff or that they could just lay there for hours and hours. Klimt's biographer Frank Whitford actually has pointed out that earlier studies for the picture show the man with a beard, suggesting that he might be meant to represent the artist himself, (which is not uncommon practice, just look at the Mona Lisa?) while the woman represents …show more content…
The Kiss is considered the masterpiece of the artist's "Golden Period," and although the decoration is predominantly extravagant, a little lavish and certainly over the top with the primary use of such a bright