Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Kiss (Klimt)

The Kiss (Klimt)

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Original – The Kiss is an oil painting with gold leaf on canvas completed by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1908 and 1909. It depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement.

Reason

High quality scan of this interesting (and shiny!) painting. This is a more abstract depiction of kissing, with the same title as an earlier FPC.

Articles in which this image appears

The Kiss (Klimt) +8

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Gustav Klimt

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - a good kiss. Hafspajen (talk) 01:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support – One of his best, graphically and otherwise. Sca (talk) 01:34, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support – As noted here it looks like a bad crop, but of course that's how the painting is. —Bruce1ee^talk 04:58, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^{If the artist was painting it like this, than it was meant to be like this. And it is one of the most famous artworks in modern art history, too. Cite: .... but most importantly he began work on the painting The Kiss, which was to take its place as one of the most famous pictures in the history of art. Hafspajen (talk) 13:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)}

^{Not all tight crops are perforce "bad." Sca (talk) 13:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)}

• Support - SchroCat (talk) 10:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support, of course. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:20, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - per Josh Milburn.--Godot13 (talk) 06:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Beautiful painting! ^{Isn't there a movie coming out soon about a painting, maybe by Klimt?} - CorinneSD (talk) 22:10, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:The Kiss - Gustav Klimt - Google Cultural Institute.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:06, 28 March 2015 (UTC)