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This 3-page paper compares and contrasts three different styles from Austrian artist Klimt (The Kiss), Kokschka (The Tempest) and Schiele (The Embrace). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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paintings that depict different types of love are The Kiss (Gustav Klimt); The Tempest (Oskar Kokoschka) and The Embrace (Egon Schiele). In this paper, well be comparing and contrasting the
different styles and how each of these painters depicted love in their own unique way. Compare and contrast in terms of style
and statement the depiction of lovers by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt (the Kiss), Oskar Kokoschka (The Tempest) and Egon Schiele (Embrace) and demonstrate how different attitudes toward art and
life find expression in these images. "The Kiss" depicts love in a rather ethereal format, in the best method of symbolism and
expressionism around (Pioch, 2002). The main gist of the picture is a man leaning over the kissing a kneeling woman, and the whole picture is shrouded in patterned gold, with
a bed of flowers beneath the lovers (Pioch, 2002). What is interesting about this particular painting is that its an elegant representation of love - yet the only things truly
visible about this couple are the hands and faces (Pioch, 2002). Experts note that "The Kiss" can be considered "a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience"
(Pioch, 2002). The fact that only the faces are visible is interesting (its uncertain as to whether the couple is clothed or not), yet Pioch considers that the colored rectangles
throughout the painting "express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love" (Pioch, 2002). And if, indeed, lovers do lose themselves in love, the fact that their bodies are
hidden in golden haze promotes that concept quite well - the loss of self in erotic love and the blending of two souls is quite apparent in this painting.
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