"The Kiss - Klimt Inspired" by k Madison Moore

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"The Kiss
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Klimt Inspired
Inspired by Gustav Klimt

Certified Original Oil Painting copyright 2008 MkM

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Areas of the painting are enhanced with Pale Metallic Gold. Bracelets, Dress Pattern , Flowers.
Colors will vary with monitors.

Sides are finished in Gold Metallic, No Frame needed

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Details: 1 x 10 x 12 inches Original Oil Painting
Top edge and sides are finished in Metallic gold
Gallery Wrapped Linen Canvas hardwood Panel
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The Kiss
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Gustav Klimt

Kissing

In modern Western culture, kissing is most commonly an expression of affection. This is unlike many parts of the world where kissing may have different meanings. Some literatures even suggest that a significant percentage of humanity does not kiss. An anomaly is India, where public kissing was once quite popular, as evidenced by the common portrayal of kissing apsaras and people in motifs commonly used around palaces and temples. Muslima invaders and Islamic treatment forced in Indian subcontinent prior to British rule, and then the British rule, and a Victorian ethics system pushed public kissing into a taboo act. However, post-independence, public kissing is not uncommon in India.

In Sub Saharan African, Asiatic, Native American and Polynesian cultures, kissing was relatively unknown until introduced by European and Western influence.However, India's practice of Kamasutra and advance sexual practices is an exception.
With the Andamanese, kissing was only used as a sign of affection towards children and had no sexual undertones.

In Eastern European countries until recent times, kissing between two men on the lips as a greeting or a farewell was as normal as the modern Western handshake[citation needed]. This custom has nearly died out due to Western influence. In the past, kissing wasn't considered sexual in Slavic and Muslim countries.


Between people of close acquaintance, a reciprocal kiss often is offered as a greeting or farewell. This kind of kiss is typically made by brief contact of puckered lips to the skin of the cheek or no contact at all, and merely performed in the air near the cheek with the cheeks touching. Such kissing is a common greeting in European and Latin American countries between a man and a woman or between two women but also by two men in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, such as Argentina. In Southern European countries, mainly Portugal and Italy, kissing on the cheek is a common greeting amongst male friends or relatives. In Spain, for example, this form of salute is almost-exclusive for women and for men that are blood relatives. However, in most Western societies, it is often more acceptable for women to kiss each other than for men to kiss each other. People sometimes kiss children to comfort them or show affection, and vice versa. This usually takes place on the forehead or cheek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss