Quadro O Beijo, by Gustav Klimt
Or quadro Or Beijo (not genuine Der kuss, in English The Kiss) is the most famous work of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918).
A canvas was painted between 1907 and 1908, it is considered one of the greatest creations of Western painting and belongs to chamada "dourada phase" (or the ganhou period, it is not because we work for a of ouro).
A consecrated Klimt canvas is huge and respects the shape of a perfect square (or square item exactly 180 centimeters by 180 centimeters).
Or Beijo It is considered the most famous Austrian painting and is part of the permanent collection of the Belvedere Palace Museum, located in Vienna.
The picture was exhibited for the first time in our exhibition in 1908 at the Austrian Gallery, on the same occasion it was acquired by the Belvedere Palace Museum, from where it is no longer present.
To see the reputation of the Austrian painter: Or Beijo It was sold (and ex post) before it was finished. Or quadro was bought for 25 thousand choirs, a reminder for the Austrian society of the time.
Analysis of the quadro Or Beijo
In the famous Klimt canvas we see or casal with absolute prominence positioned in the center of the image.
At the first moment it is possible to identify intimidation, partilha and to the fulfillment of an unpaired pair, more to canvas than a classical painting allows multiple interpretations, we will get together below some of the most famous theories around the peça.
About fabric composition
With an abundance of geometric shapes, it stands out or fato of cores will help to give a notion of volume.
We also observe how Or Beijo It has a texture, many per count of the presence of sheets of ouro and stanho that are inserted in the image (especially in the roupas do casal and not found, which also ornamented with delicate flocks of ouro, prata and platinum).
Since we are dealing with the figure of the house, the house is richly adorned with nothing more than long tunics that impede the harassment or contour of two bodies. In compensation, it is possible to observe a series of ornaments in pictures: we find square geometric symbols e retaliations (which would go back to phallic symbols), we see circles (which can be read as day symbols). fertilidade).
At disposal of the image
As you can see, the painting is not properly centralized horizontally and vertically. At the head of the parceiro it appears that it is cut off and practically no one sees the face of homem, just or his profile. Or movement of the head and of the fish, not so much, transparent virility.
O cloth fund in a green meadow with flowers beira de a precipício or an abyss.
TO quase fusão two corpos It is reinforced by the constant presence of gold. It is curious how a painting by Klimt arises from an influence psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), also come and his contemporary.
A present illustration in Or Beijo é antagonistic. I have read the image to happiness, to plenitude and to união do casal. Second to researcher Konstanze Fliedl:
"The aura of the square and its seductive beauty devem both its preciousness - ambiguous - and the representation of the lovers' house, incarnation of a quiet erotic happiness."
On the other hand, many people read the cloth identifying the certain weight and suffering (would the beloved be disagreeable?).
A series of critics defend the fact that painting is a representation of masculine agressividade on a woman, it would be a record of male dominance. On this prism, a woman would appear subjulgated, or that it is corroborated by the position of Joelhos and his hair is closed.
On the other hand, he has to interpret the feições da amada as an expression of êxtase e completude.
Or Beijo: a self-portrait?
Some specialists defend the theory that Or Beijo It would be a self-portrait with the presence of the stylist Emilie Flöge (1874-1952), who was Klimt's great love of life.
Other theories state that some muses will serve as a model for canvas painting.
Uma forte tese indicates that the woman of the quadro would be Adele Bloch-Bauer, who had never posed for another Klimt canvas. Ou then it would possibly be Red Hilda, a model that has also been tied for the painter several times.
Aliás, who is always in the presence of a woman (or more), among them of the Austrian painter. Not by chance, Klimt was known to be a painter of women.
About A Fase Dourada
Some theorists use this Klimt phase as the Dourada Era or the Dourado Period.
Or that it is certain that the works raised in this period were marked by the use of geometric shapes and the presence of a decorative excess. Klimt applied nas images to sheets of ouro. By sinal, foi ele or breeder of an innovative technique that mixes ouro folhas as oils and bronze ink.
There are two different theses (and provavelmente complementary) that explain or interest Klimt pela aplicação do ouro. A powerful inspiration came from the influence of his father, Ernest Klimt, who was an engraver of ouro. To another theory suitable for the painter's fact, he made a journey through Ravenna, Italy, where he saw preserved Byzantine mosaics and was enchanted by the peças.
Além from Or Beijo, another iconic work of the Dourada Phase é Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907):
To the importance of quadro Or Beijo for Austria
A Klimt creation is important for the culture and national identity that the Austrian House of Moeda produces a series of ouro moedas in commemorative edição nomeada Klimt and His Women (Klimt e Suas Mulheres).
A series began to be produced in 2012 as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the coming painter.
The last edition of the collection, issued on April 13, 2016, continues a recording of Or Beijo from one side to the representation of Klimt do outro. Currently on sale and sold directly through Casa da Moeda for € 484.00.
As multiple reproductions of Or Beijo
Klimt's fabric became popular over the last few decades, having passed to fazer part of the so-called mass culture. It is relatively frequent to find reproductions of the image of the Austrian painter in souvenirs, boxes, decorative objects, fabrics, etc.
The image of the cloth was also reproduced as a form of criticism in 2013. In Damascus, depois de um bombardeamento, or Syrian artist Tamman Azzam digitally replicated the work of Austrian master numa wall of a building damaged by war marks as a form of I protest. Second or breeder:
"A false work on the relationship between tragedy and comedy and fate of the place of art during the war. Fala of hope and of how to fight against war with a painting that fails of love. I use Klimt's work because I am famous. With an artistic gesture it is possible to call attention to the people. (...) I want to discuss how the world inside could be interested in art and, on the other hand, two people are dead every day in Syria. Goya created a work to immortalize [or] the assassination of hundreds of innocent Spanish citizens on May 3, 1808. How many days of May 3 do we have a leaf to Síria? "
Biography of Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was born in a Vienna suburb in 1862, not a member of a family with seven filhos. O father of him, Ernest Klimt, was an engraver of ouro, and beside him, Anna Rosalia, cared for a large family.
A 14-year-old painter enters the School of Applied Arts and begins to attend painting classes as Irmão Ernst.
Klimt gradually received recognition and began to paint a series of public works such as, for example, the scads of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Grand Hall of the University of Vienna.
In 1888, the painter received a prize from Imperador Franz Joseph I.
In 1897 he founded and became the first president of the Vienna Secession.
Despite criticism from the public, Klimt lived a recluse and a fairly discreet life. He was a simple homem, who used to dress in robes and lived like me and like irma.
Gustav does not seu atelier of him works between eight and nine hours a day and in the habit of painting as an aid to living models.
Or Austrian painter died in 1918.
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