The Kiss Tile

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt The Kiss was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908. The canvas 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. The work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf, an aspect that gives it its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance.