The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Material:225g Fine Art Paper their extraordinary tail feathers and

their extraordinary tail feathers and iridescent tones filling the vertical space in a cascade of natural ornament

In this shin-hanga composition

the composition's bold colour planes

painted during his time in the French countryside before his departure for the South Pacific

The bodies are rendered in angular

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Material:225g Fine Art Paper their extraordinary tail feathers andPainted at the height of the Vienna Secession in 190708, The Kiss dissolves two figures into a field of gold mosaic and floral ornament the boundary between person and pattern almost entirely absorbed. Klimt's synthesis of Byzantine gold ground tradition, Japanese decorative surface, and Symbolist emotional intensity produces an image that is simultaneously intimate and monumental. The kneeling couple at the cliff's edge, surrounded by abstracted