Have you noticed in googles home page browser that every now and then the doodle changes, today it features "the kiss", one of the famous paintings of Gustav Klimt, commemorating his 150th birth anniversary.
Klimt is an Austrian painter. he was born on July 14, 1862, in Vienna and was a son of a goldsmith. Gustav spend much of his time in poverty but luckily, trained in Vienna School of Decorative Arts. He had a liking for expensive materials to inculcate into his art work and some of these are: gold, silver and marble making his art amongst the most expensive in the entire planet.
"The Kiss" (1097-08) is an oil canvas painting that art collectors believed to be the only depiction or portrait of Gustav Klimt.
Klimt is not only famous but a controversial painter as well, and this is due to his provocative paintings of nude women complimented with eroticism. History tells us that there was once a painting of Klimt that was literally removed for it was showing a pregnant nude woman.
He died on the 6th of February 1918 in a Spanish Flu. Gustav Klimt truly a genius in the sphere of art and painting. He may have died but his works are immortalized forever.......
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