Klimt｜The golden happy kiss with Emily
Most kisses are sweet and warm
But the kisses painted by him are bitter, not happy
They are sad, not passionate, but Kisses that make people nostalgic
The kisses in the film are full of French romance, soft and delicate, warm and lingering. They contain the stickiest part of love and are also an expression of love between lovers. The best sustenance.
The artist invited more than a hundred sweet lovers, each with his own story. It is not difficult to see that the same kiss is conveyed by different body language, expressions and demeanor. In the eyes of people with different identities, the expressions of "kiss" are full of diversity.
And the kiss on the canvas of today’s protagonist is intoxicating. As mentioned at the beginning, it is bitter, not happy, sad, not passionate, which makes people lament the shortness of time and the illusion of love.
I believe everyone is familiar with this Vienna Secession painter. Gustav Klimt is loved by the world for his golden, bright, erotic and sultry works. The bold and free use of various flat decorative patterns creates a strong golden visual style rich in oriental colors and mysterious artistic conception.
"The Kiss" is Klimt's most emotional masterpiece of a kiss. "Kiss" is an important theme in Klimt's works, and the symbol behind "kiss" Love is what Klimt believes is the way for humans to reconcile with the world and with each other.
In the creation of the Golden Kiss of the Century, the man and woman kneeling in the garden and embracing each other are entangled in the golden light in the dim light, and their postures are moving. In the painting, the man's gentle hands caress the woman's face. The woman hugged her neck with one hand and held the back of the man's hand with the other. However, her face was turned to the side of the canvas and her back was turned to the man's embrace. One can imagine what kind of emotion this was. There is no dense three-dimensional expression dynamics, but the slowly fermenting temperature is all compressed into a one-dimensional plane space. A touch of sadness emanates from the golden mottled at some point, accompanied by the mysterious symbols on the clothes, which seems to reveal the painter's inner anguish of restraining desire.
Among the many Klimt "Kisses", this painting is the most emotionally rich in its creation. It contains Klimt's strong sentimental sentiment and is related to his emotions.
This unforgettable relationship for him is the complex relationship between Emily, his spiritual partner who has not been with him all his life. This golden, voluptuous work evokes Klimt's tenderness. This may be the only self-portrait of his life, and the woman in the picture is his lifelong lover Emilie Floge.
Klimt’s younger brother Ernst married one of the daughters of the Flora family, and Klimt married his sister Emily, the youngest in the family who was 12 years older than him. acquaintance. When Ernst and his father passed away, Klimt took on the responsibility of taking care of the family. The mature Klimt has an unshakable position in the new art world. To the young Emily, he is like a father. In addition to her lover, she also has a heroic respect for him. Their friendship This pattern continues.
Emily, like Klimt, was a participant in the Secession movement and ran her own clothing store in Vienna. Whether for work or leisure, he always wears a robe of his own design, while she wears a flowing translucent dress with a checkered pattern, a perfect combination of the secessionist style and the progressive requirements of "fashion innovation" . She and Klimt had known each other for a long time, and every summer they would spend a romantic time together in Artes. She was Klimt's lifelong friend and companion, and the only person with whom he would be buried.
Over the past 20 years, Klimt wrote hundreds of postcards to her, sharing with Emily the details of his daily life, about theaters, weather, travel, canceling French classes, and complaining about the hotel room. Get drunk, or just tell her when he'll be back.
These fragments of their love are collected in the Leopold Museum. What is shown here is more of the emotional part of Klimt's creation. In "Klimt: Entering "This Man" presents 400 postcards sent by Klimt to Emily, the heroine depicted in "The Kiss".
For the artist who rarely talks, these letters are the testimony of their lifelong companionship and daily closeness. In seven recently discovered love letters released by the Belvedere Palace, Klimt called Emily "my baby, my life" and he wrote a poem expressing his unrequited love. We may never know Emily's answer because she burned all her replies.
Since they love each other deeply, why don't they get married? What is even more puzzling is that Klimt always sought sensual satisfaction from other women and used this as the source of his paintings.
Maybe he is full of expectations for love but is afraid of losing it. Maybe he yearns for each other but can't get out of his own world. Maybe he knows that he can't get a certain love from her and doesn't dare to go. Try to have it all, maybe...everything is maybe...
Klimt may not be able to promise Emily a stable future, but he integrated with her with "The Kiss". Carefully observe the oval spirals on women's clothes and the rectangular squares on men's clothes. They are full of sexual temptations and contain complex psychology beyond simple sex.
Regarding Klimt’s emotional life, various speculations have been made in literature, film, television and paintings, but perhaps because of his reticent nature, the artist himself only left a few words. Trying to piece together an emotional panorama through these fragmented sentences may be better than appreciating his works carefully.
As he said himself, "If you want to understand me, look at my paintings carefully! You will see what kind of person I am and what kind of things I want to do."
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This "Kiss" was created between 1907 and 1908, which was also a very important ten-year "golden period" in his life. He tried to use a lot of gold foil materials to express it in his creations. . His golden and Byzantine style was inspired by the mosaic art of Venice and Ravenna. "The Kiss", "Judit", and "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" are all representative works of this period.
Another of his representative works, "Portrait of Adler Bloch-Bauer", changed hands for US$135 million in June 2006. It became the most expensive painting in the world for a time, and even Barbie dolls modeled after Mrs. Bloch-Bauer are sold around the world. ?
The woman in the painting is wearing a golden rotating long skirt dress, with thick black hair. The willow-leaf arched eyebrows, slightly parted cherry lips, gleaming teeth, flushed face, fair skin, and exquisite jewelry on the neck and arms symbolize a wealthy family, and the solemn and upright posture expresses the nobility of status. The slightly melancholy eyes and clasped hands also vaguely express the woman's arousing thoughts. The love hidden in the eyes is intertwined with the gorgeous visual senses. Behind the golden luster is the original desire of human nature.
This gorgeous golden woman was created in 1907. It was created by the author for the wife of the banker and sugar tycoon Ferdinand Broch-Bauer, the richest woman in Austria at the end of the 19th century. A portrait painted. Klimt's special techniques such as powder coating, gold foil, and silver foil are used to express the image of a graceful and noble woman.
In his early years of studying painting, Klimt inherited the traditions of the British Pre-Raphaelites and the French Impressionists. Later, he introduced the decorative interest of Assyrian, Greek and Byzantine mosaics into his paintings, and his work style is one of It is full of artistic charm of craft decoration. The combination of his emphasis on contoured surfaces and the flat surfaces of classical mosaics creates a unique and evocative painting style.
Just like this oil painting "Mrs. Adler Broch Bauer" which took three years to complete, it is precisely because of his in-depth interpretation of human desires hidden under the gorgeous decoration that it can Achieved the birth of world-class paintings. Today, this painting, known as the "Mona Lisa of the 20th century", was acquired by Ronald S. Lauder, the eldest son of the Estée Lauder Group, for a transaction price of US$135 million in 2006, and is displayed in his private museum in New York, USA. New Gallery.
Klimt’s relationship with women has always been the focus of attention. As we all know, apart from a few landscapes, Klimt almost exclusively painted women, and if men appeared, they were usually only as foils or backgrounds.
Many of his female portraits are nudes, posed in thought-provoking erotic poses that emphasize sensuality and sexuality. The women in the paintings often respond directly to the viewer's gaze on their bodies with their gazes, often without shyness.
"Virgin" is now in the collection of the Narotti Museum of Art in Prague, Czech Republic. In the painting, several women cling tightly to each other. Different from his previous golden works, here he uses single-line flat painting and pattern decoration to enrich the picture. The characters lean on each other, overlap, and condense together. The exposed body parts appear full and full of vitality, revealing the essence of life. The colors are bright, strong, and full of passion, but the expressions of the characters appear a little cold and gloomy. The contrast between the colors and the characters expresses the anxiety and physical and mental exhaustion of the young woman in her virginity, and also conveys the inevitable mentality in life experience from the side.
In addition to works on female subjects, Klimt’s landscape paintings are also highly sought after by collectors. He uses mottled and colorful handwriting to freely interweave the rigorous and simple world. Full of natural vitality, yet as lyrical and sunny as poetry. Under the brush of reason and passion, the essence and potential of color are brought into full play.
One deep and one shallow, one cold and one warm. The artist chose a complete sunflower and placed it in the middle of the painting, with the slightly drooping flower disk tightly leaning against the dense leaves. The colorful small flowers at the bottom are hidden under the leaves of sunflowers, and the background is a mixture of various flowers. The compact and cold colors set off the warm and soothing sunflowers in the front. The slightly melancholy warmth is his habitual painting wind.
The beech forest exudes a bit of hot and exciting uneasiness, but also a bit of calm and silent suppression. Ambivalent psychology is like fallen leaves, spinning in the air at a falling speed, unwilling to fall for a long time.
The church at the foot of the mountain in the middle shot has densely packed buildings and dense trees. The main hall behind it has a cooler color and gradually recedes under the shadow. The trees and gray walls along the river are vaguely reflected. I wonder if it will be sunny tomorrow?
Today, the world can only get a glimpse of the glory of Klimt’s art through handed down works such as “The Kiss”. "The Kiss" hangs in the Belvedere Museum, a splendid Baroque palace that houses the largest collection of Klimt's paintings in the world. If you are also interested in the Vienna Secession, you can experience the melancholic romance in the golden mystery for yourself.