India, Feb. 10 -- As Valentine's Day approaches, journalistArnab Nandyshares his most recent encounter with the world's most famous kiss on canvas. Gustav Klimt's The Kiss at the Belvedere museum in Vienna, depicting a kissing couple in passionate embrace against a gold, flat background at the edge of a flowery meadow, holds your gaze.

Visitors crowd in front of Gustav Klimt's most famous painting, The Kiss, at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna on December 25, 2024. Photo courtesy: Arnab Nandy

The world's most famous kiss is not a real one but one in art. Perhaps the artist painted it based on a real one, perhaps not. But Gustav's Klimt's interpretation of that kiss, whether real or conceived in his mind, makes it extraordinary.

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