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Description: An Austrian iconoclast, Klimt (1862 - 1918) rose from childhood poverty to become an artist who significantly impacted the Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau styles. Klimt is a curious and elegant synthesis of Symbolism. The primal forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death form the dominant themes of Klimt's work. The Kiss celebrates the attraction of the sexes. A man leaning over and kissing a kneeling woman, all shrouded in symbolically patterned gold with a bed of flowers below them, representing the melding of selves experienced by lovers. The Kiss is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.