The Kiss
The Kiss
3D
Published 2018-12-04T12:36:43+00:00
This is a sculpture depicting a couple kissing. The sculpture is inspired by an episode in The Divine Comedy, the influential epic poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Lost in a moment of reckless passion, Paolo and Francesca are about to be discovered and killed by Francesca's husband, Paolo's brother. Rodin's sculpture soon shed its literary reference to become a universal image of a kiss. The two figures melt into one another - anonymous and passionate. Their bodies express their irresistible mutual attraction. The privacy of the moment, the nakedness of the moment, the nakedness of their desire and their disregard for the danger of being found out, cast us in the role of voyeur,
| Date published | 04/12/2018 |
| Title | The Kiss |
| Date | cast after 1898 from the first marble version |
| Accession | S.174 |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Rodin donation, 1916 |
| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Place | British Museum |
The beauty vs a tragic event that approaches. I always wondered how sculpts would look like if painted. This started when I was told that the sculpts in the metope of Parthenon where painted and what remains today is the decoloured marble after many ages.
Some times I just try to paint, but in other cases, something provocative comes into my mind and I follow a more creative path. In any case, enjoy!
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