Professor Im Joo Rhyu, director of the Korea University Graduate Program for Convergence & Translational Biomedicine and faculty member in the Department of Anatomy, led a study investigating the ...

The 1897 portrait represents Klimt’s stylistic shift “towards decorative ... couple he painted about 11 years later in “The Kiss,” which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a ...

Gustav Klimt often used patterns in his paintings and murals. The Kiss (1907-8) is composed of flat areas of irregular patterns. A repeating rectangle motif is used for the man’s body ...

Professor Rhyu remarked, “Klimt’s The Kiss is a masterpiece that not only captures the ecstasy of love but also seamlessly weaves together art and medicine.”He added, “By transforming the ...