“Kiss” by Gustav Klimt

“891. Kiss by Gustav Klimt” Watercolor painting by Mariko Irie

I always fascinate Gust Klimt works.

His early works are very academic realistic paintings. He was a master painter.

Then He started his very original symbolist paintings including using gold leaves.

According Wikipedia:Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

After I learned realistic painting technique from Bill Martin who was surrealism painter, I wanted to combine 2 dimension and 3 dimension harmoniously in a painting. So I painted Japonica series in last year, 2016.

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I’ve read that before Klimt painted, he sketched more than 100, and then he started to paint. Wow. His line of bodies are so alive and sexy.

Before I painted this painting, I searched about Gustav Klimt. Now internet has a lot of information. I had a great time.

Especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5YNt6Q4Z8 Whatever Happened to Klimt’s Golden Lady? with E. Randol Schoenberg — UC San Diego Library Channel

is very interesting documentary. From this one I learned the history of Vienna and jews, which I never learned in schools.

This speaker, E. Randol Schoenberg is the attorney to get the painting “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt back from Vienna in Austria.

I’m not interested in who or which country owns the painting. But Randol speech is excellent so I watched whole this documentary.

Just listening what he has done, I felt what a time consuming and energy.

I say that Randol Schoenberg has great passion for his job, attorney with a good heart.

I’m happy that I copied Gustav Klimt “Kiss” very much. I could learn Klimt way of seeing and expression a little bit.

I’m planning to show this painting next month at the Northeast Artists in February. February is Valentin month, why not?