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I heard this on Radio 4 yesterday: 13:30
The Kiss at 100
Rowan Pelling visits Vienna to explore the enduring appeal of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, which has become one of the world's most reproduced paintings since it was first exhibited 100 years ago. Who are the couple depicted in the famous clinch?and was amazed, since it is obviously extremely famous, that I had never heard of, nor seen, this painting before.  According to the programme, most people have (or have had in the past) a print of it - even if it was just a postcard on the wall when you were a student. Well, years ago, I had postcards of famous paintings all over my walls but none were of The Kiss. How about you? |
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John W
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« Reply #1 on: 21:12:53, 10-12-2007 » |
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Well mj, I don't recall seeing it before, but doing a basic google image search for 'the kiss' and it appears 4 times on the first page of 16 million results. It's no. 3 on the page, the first two being a VJ photo (1945 VJ) which I HAVE seen before  |
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« Reply #2 on: 21:43:23, 10-12-2007 » |
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« Reply #3 on: 21:57:14, 10-12-2007 » |
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the original is at the belvedere in vienna.
it's a real beauty close up, and looks a lot more beautiful than any print of it.
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« Reply #4 on: 22:54:44, 10-12-2007 » |
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Yes - student days, postcard on wall, etc. There is a preliminary version which IGI has as his last picture above (along with frames from the Beethoven Frieze and two others which memory tells me are Julia and Mother Earth (?)). I seem to remember as well that the swirls in The Kiss are feminine symbols and the rectangles male. A fascinating artist, mixed up with Zemlinsky, and Mahler (and Alma  ). I like the Beethoven Frieze more that The Kiss, but even better than that are his landscapes. Worth loking out for. Tommo |
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« Reply #5 on: 23:05:22, 10-12-2007 » |
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I remember this well, although I didn`t have the poster on my wall(s). There is a female descendant of Klimt, also a painter, whose style is extremely similar. Can I remember her name? No  I was reading about her recently. Perhaps a biography that has just been published .....? Ring any bells with anyone? |
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Andy D
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« Reply #6 on: 23:38:53, 10-12-2007 » |
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I heard this on Radio 4 yesterday: 13:30
The Kiss at 100
Rowan Pelling visits Vienna to explore the enduring appeal of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, which has become one of the world's most reproduced paintings since it was first exhibited 100 years ago. Who are the couple depicted in the famous clinch?and was amazed, since it is obviously extremely famous, that I had never heard of, nor seen, this painting before. According to the programme, most people have (or have had in the past) a print of it - even if it was just a postcard on the wall when you were a student. Well, years ago, I had postcards of famous paintings all over my walls but none were of The Kiss. How about you? I've seen it before MJ but I'm amazed it's so popular. Not to be confused with Rodin's The Kiss, which is surely much more erotic:  |
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« Reply #7 on: 23:49:17, 10-12-2007 » |
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I don't have the kiss on my wall, but I do have a print of a similar painting, 'The Embrace', in my room:  I didn't get it for myself; it was part of a b.day present, and I figured it would look okay in a certain spot. |
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Kittybriton
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« Reply #8 on: 01:46:24, 11-12-2007 » |
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When you think about it, as a title, "The Snog" just doesn't do it.
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« Reply #9 on: 11:55:47, 11-12-2007 » |
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I had it on my wall as a student in Durham.
It's the controlled aspect of it, and the way that the figures seem, to some extent at least, to be an extension of their surroundings, that makes it erotic in a sense that the Rodin doesn't touch upon. The Rodin is, of course, touching on other things.
I don't have a lot of art on my walls at the moment, mostly it's gifts from friends (a glass painting from Prague, a Brazilian mask and a print of one of those angels playing a lute (which is far too big for it) you see all over the place usually on greetings cards).
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« Reply #10 on: 17:43:45, 11-12-2007 » |
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Never knowingly heard of nor seen it.
Now I'm the first to admit I'm not the biggest expert on art, but when I count the number of times I've seen Dali on student walls (about a million), the number of "Sunflower" prints in the world (about a billion) and the number of times I've seen the Mona Lisa depicted in popular culture (about an infinity), doesn't it seem unlikely I've never knowingly seen this "most reproduced" painting?
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John W
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« Reply #11 on: 18:52:13, 11-12-2007 » |
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So, what's on YOUR wall?
Pick a room.
Our 'computer room' is my office in a corner of the dining room. Hanging on the wall:
three porcelain plates (circa. 1880s)
a clock (only 1 minute fast)
my membership/certificate of a professional institution
a recently-acquired qualification certificate
photocopy of my first cheque for own business activity (£332)
a painting by me, supposed to look like a Manet
a little chimney-sweep figure, it was a good luck charm on our wedding day
a small silk woven copy of the tapestry in Coventry Cathedral
a large photo of an orchestra with all the members' signatures**
** the Savoy Orpheans who were the dance band at the Savoy in the 1920s (playing fox-trots and waltzes) but were augmented in 1925 to do a concert tour which included Dvorak's New World Symphony, the conductor was Debroy Somers.
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« Reply #12 on: 19:06:06, 11-12-2007 » |
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My computer room (where, er, I'm sitting right now): A montage of photos of friends and family, the oldest going back 30 years. A photo of the cat.  Two framed pieces of original artwork (by the same artist) for one of my CDs and a sheet music collection of my piano music. A 'to do' list bluetacked to the wall that's been there for 2 1/2 years, the last task (written down 2 years ago) still undone. Which is why the yellowing list is still up there. |
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« Reply #13 on: 19:34:21, 11-12-2007 » |
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My room, where the computer is, several prints by this artist  An etching of Lord Byron in Moorish costume, (eek!) an etching of an Art Nouveau maiden by Gottlieb (with very odd toes), a studio shot of Fay Wray and some Aboriginal art. A total mish-mash in other words. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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tonybob
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« Reply #14 on: 21:13:37, 11-12-2007 » |
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I remember this well, although I didn`t have the poster on my wall(s). There is a female descendant of Klimt, also a painter, whose style is extremely similar. Can I remember her name? No I was reading about her recently. Perhaps a biography that has just been published .....? Ring any bells with anyone? Wachmeister? |
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