Detail from Gustav Klimt’s Painting “The Kiss”

Detail from Gustav Klimt’s Painting “The Kiss”

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Detail from Gustav Klimt’s Painting “The Kiss”
Technique: Micron pen on paper (Pointillism and Hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 32 cm × 42 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2024
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"Love is not the gesture — it is the moment when it becomes inevitable."

In this detail from The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, the artist does more than interpret — she silences the gold and listens to the essence.

The absence of color reveals the pure gesture: a touch to the face, a kiss on the forehead, one body surrendering to another. The elaborate ornamentation of the original gains new meaning here, where patterns and forms, now in black and white, feel engraved into the skin rather than layered onto it.

Each dot and line recreates not only the image but the loving vibration it holds. There is tenderness without theatrics, surrender without spectacle. It is the most intimate moment made visible — a kiss not given to be seen, but because it can no longer be held back.