Hard Times Lead to Great Ends
Gustav Klimt is an Austrian painter most famous for his oil gliding paintings like The Kiss in which he finished in 1908. The Kiss is composed of two lovers, kissing passionately while wrapped in a bright yellow, gold cloth together. Klimt was one of seven children born to his mother and father, Ernest and Anna Klimt. He came from an artistic background. His father was a gold engraver and his mother was a talented singer but never did anything about it. Gustav Klimt’s main focus of his work is on religion and love. Although, The Kiss is his most famous piece of art to this day, Death and Life is the most influential and inspiring piece he has ever made. After his graduation in 1883 from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he started a company with his younger brother Ernest and friend Franz Masch. Company of Artist was sought out for. He, his brother and Franz primarily focused on making portraits. People wanted to have their portrait done by the one and only. During this period of his life Gustav Klimt was going through some hard times. After working with his beloved brother for a few years he died, forcing him to take financial responsibility of his brothers family. Also, in that same year his father died making …show more content…
In the painting he invisions death as a skeleton peeking around the edge of darkness on the left side of the painting. Death is depicted as a very evil being. His eyes are open wide looking at the life of the people on the right side of the painting. Inside the right side, life has many different generations of people who are holding onto each other in a loving way. By illustrating this we see that Gustav sees all people as good hearted, loving human beings. The people on the life side are acting as if they have no idea death is staring at them waiting to take their life away in the blink of an
Gustav Klimt is an Austrian painter most famous for his oil gliding paintings like The Kiss in which he finished in 1908. The Kiss is composed of two lovers, kissing passionately while wrapped in a bright yellow, gold cloth together. Klimt was one of seven children born to his mother and father, Ernest and Anna Klimt. He came from an artistic background. His father was a gold engraver and his mother was a talented singer but never did anything about it. Gustav Klimt’s main focus of his work is on religion and love. Although, The Kiss is his most famous piece of art to this day, Death and Life is the most influential and inspiring piece he has ever made. After his graduation in 1883 from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he started a company with his younger brother Ernest and friend Franz Masch. Company of Artist was sought out for. He, his brother and Franz primarily focused on making portraits. People wanted to have their portrait done by the one and only. During this period of his life Gustav Klimt was going through some hard times. After working with his beloved brother for a few years he died, forcing him to take financial responsibility of his brothers family. Also, in that same year his father died making …show more content…
In the painting he invisions death as a skeleton peeking around the edge of darkness on the left side of the painting. Death is depicted as a very evil being. His eyes are open wide looking at the life of the people on the right side of the painting. Inside the right side, life has many different generations of people who are holding onto each other in a loving way. By illustrating this we see that Gustav sees all people as good hearted, loving human beings. The people on the life side are acting as if they have no idea death is staring at them waiting to take their life away in the blink of an