Sunday, December 16, 2012

TOW 14: The Kiss

This painting is called The Kiss by Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt.

It portrays a man and a woman embracing and engaging in a passionate kiss. The color scheme utilized in this painting portrays a happy ambiance around the couple. The large use of yellow, a bright and cheery color, brings attention to the main focal point of the painting. Although the bodies of the couple are not explicitly shown, their closeness to each other symbolizes how a kiss has the power to unify two people into one. The isolation of this couple with no other visible environment represents an ideal world, in which love has the power to overpower all other distractions.

Klimt's rhetorical device of color scheme was very unique. After further research, it was discovered that Klimt had used fresco, mosaic techniques, and oil painting in this work. The different colors utilized in this painting portray the diversity of love. Love is not something that can be easily summed up in one word, and the complexity of the colors used goes to show that love is a complicated yet beautiful idea.

The painting is for the general public.

The painter's purpose was accomplished. Klimt managed to create a beautiful painting displaying the idea of love through a kiss, without explicitly doing so. His use of different colors and textures added unto the complicated idea of love, while maintaining a neat and concise painting.


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