{"id":3248,"date":"2012-01-26T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T10:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2012-01-26T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T10:05:31","slug":"the-kiss-by-gustav-klimt-named-most-romantic-oil-painting-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-kiss-by-gustav-klimt-named-most-romantic-oil-painting-for-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine\u2019s Day 2012. Topping the chart for the second year in a row is Gustav Klimt\u2019s sensual masterpiece \u201cThe Kiss.\u201d<\/a> Other artists named on the 2012 Valentine\u2019s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.<\/p>\n

The Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings according to overstockArt.com\u2019s statistics are:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cThe Kiss,\u201d<\/a> Gustav Klimt<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cHand with Bouquet,\u201d Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cSummer Evening,\u201d<\/a> Edward Hopper<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cThe Equestrian,\u201d Marc Chagall<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cWhen Will you Marry?,\u201d<\/a> Paul Gauguin<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cDance in the City,\u201d<\/a> Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cTwo Women Running on the Beach,\u201d Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cBoating on the Seine,\u201d<\/a> Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cFulfillment (The Embrace),\u201d<\/a> Gustav Klimt<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cThe Meditative Rose,\u201d Salvador Dali<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    More than 3,700,000 page views to overstockArt.com\u2019s Romantic Art Gallery<\/a> in the past year were tracked. According to the click tracking, \u201cThe Kiss,\u201d was the most sought-after painting that clicked at nearly seven percent, and Pablo Picasso’s \u201cHand with Bouquet\u201d came in second, garnering five percent of the clicks to grab.<\/p>\n

    \"Klimt<\/a>Created during Klimt\u2019s \u201cGolden Period,\u201d \u201cThe Kiss\u201d is renowned because of its tender representation of two lovers intertwined into one being, symbolizing the strength of this bond. The opulent and sensuous images in the painting create a sense of decadence, which modern art lovers appreciate to this day. \u201cThe Kiss\u201d has topped not only the Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings for two consecutive years but has been one of the top four paintings in overstockArt.com\u2019s annual Top 10 Oil Paintings list for the past six years.<\/p>\n

    “Every February we see a large spike in the traffic visiting our Romantic Art Gallery. Last year, the two weeks leading to Valentine’s Day brought 50 percent of all annual traffic to the gallery,” said David Sasson, founder, and president of overstockArt.com. \u201cValentine’s Day brings out the romantic in all of us and with sensuous paintings like \u2018The Kiss\u2019 and tender images such as \u2018Hand with Bouquet\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s easy to find a fine art piece that your loved one will treasure for a lifetime!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine\u2019s Day 2012. Topping the chart for the second year in a row is Gustav Klimt\u2019s sensual masterpiece \u201cThe Kiss.\u201d Other artists named on the 2012 Valentine\u2019s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[723,4],"tags":[43,355],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-overstockart-com-2","tag-the-kiss","tag-top-10"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Kiss by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine\u2019s Day - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-kiss-by-gustav-klimt-named-most-romantic-oil-painting-for-valentines-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Kiss by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine\u2019s Day - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine\u2019s Day 2012. 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