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GUSTAV KLIMT Name: Institution: Tutor: Date: INTRODUCTION Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is one of the few famous painters like Leonardo Da Vinci whose paintings over the years have lived to become immortal together with them. Such a source of inspiration to many already existing and upcoming modern slaves of the brush and paint, this Austrian painter, is famously the man behind the painting known as The Kiss that he painted when he was 45. He was by then still living with his mother and two sisters and by then, although middle aged and unmarried and unmoved out of his parents house, he showed his strong interests in eroticism through his wonderful paintings. His works can only be understood by those willing to take a journey into the picture beyond his hunger to express himself in a cultural way through the placement of sexuality into paint. Whenever he painted with his oil paints on canvas, sketched and worked on his famous murals, he in himself showed a cradle in which existed an artistic array of symbolism in ideas. Among his treasured themes of the naked human body and sexuality, he would portray different figures in his own ways including the catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in a way that she would come out with a powerful sexual appeal (Wolfgang 22). THE BEETHOVEN FRIEZE From goldfish to Hymn of Happiness, the works of this artist reveals the ambience that had existed in his time among the class society he had grown into back at home in Vienna. His was such ...
