"to the larger version. Before creating the marble version of ""The Kiss"", Rodin produced several smaller sculptures in plaster, terracotta and bronze. In 1888, the French government ordered the first large-scale marble version of ""The Kiss"" from Rodin for the 1889 ""Exposition universelle"", but it was publicly displayed for the first time in the ""Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts"" in 1898. It was so popular that the company ""Barbedienne"" offered Rodin a contract to produce a limited number of smaller copies in bronze. In 1900 the statue was moved to the Musée du Luxembourg before being taken to"
"The Kiss (Munch painting) The Kiss is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Norwegian symbolist artist Edvard Munch in 1897. Part of his ""Frieze of Life"", which depicts the stages of a relationship between men and women, ""The Kiss"" is a realization of a motif with which he had experimented since 1888/89: a couple kissing, their faces fusing as one in a symbolic representation of their unity. Exhibited as early as 1903, this work is held at the Munch Museum in Oslo. ""The Kiss"" is an oil painting on canvas, measuring . It depicts a couple surrounded by"
"The Kiss (Brâncuși sculpture) The Kiss (in Romanian: Sărutul /səruːtul/) is a sculpture by Romanian Modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. It is an early example of his proto-cubist style of non-literal representation. This plaster was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show and published in the ""Chicago Tribune"" of 25 March 1913. This early plaster sculpture is one of six casts that Brancusi made of the 190708 ""The Kiss"". The original stone carving is in the Muzeul de Arta at Craiova, Romania. Brâncuși created many versions of ""The Kiss"", further simplifying geometric forms and sparse objects in each version, tending each time"
"Infinite (Coloana infinitului)"", known as ""The Endless Column"" (1938). The Kiss (Brâncuși sculpture) The Kiss (in Romanian: Sărutul /səruːtul/) is a sculpture by Romanian Modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. It is an early example of his proto-cubist style of non-literal representation. This plaster was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show and published in the ""Chicago Tribune"" of 25 March 1913. This early plaster sculpture is one of six casts that Brancusi made of the 190708 ""The Kiss"". The original stone carving is in the Muzeul de Arta at Craiova, Romania. Brâncuși created many versions of ""The Kiss"", further simplifying geometric forms"
"Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of Hell"", one of the representations of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta, but did not include it there because the happiness expressed by the lovers did not seem appropriate to the theme. ""The Kiss"", another famous sculpture by the artist, shares the same origin, but unlike ""The"
"L'Amour et Psyché, enfants L'Amour et Psyché, enfants is an oil painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau in 1890. It is currently in a private collection. It was displayed in the Salon of Paris in 1890, the year Bouguereau was President of the Société des Artistes Français. The painting features Greek mythological figures Cupid and Psyché, sharing an embrace and kiss. Bouguereau was a Classical-style painter in the Neoclassical era of art. The painting is characterized by the frothy background the figures delicately stand on. It depicts the beginning of the forbidden romance of Cupid and Psyche, a popular subject at"
"The Kiss (Klimt) The Kiss (in German ""Liebespaar"", ""Lovers"") is an oil painting, with added silver and gold leaf by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, and was painted between 1907 and 1908 during the height of Klimt's ""Golden Period"". The painting depicts a couple embracing one another, their bodies entwined in elaborate beautiful robes decorated in a style influenced by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement. The painting hangs in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, and is widely considered a masterpiece of the early"
"The Stolen Kiss (Fragonard) The Stolen Kiss is a painting by French painter Jean Honore Fragonard (1732–1806) from the end of the 1780s, depicting a secretive romance. The painting was hosted in the collection of the Hermitage, in St. Petersburg. The style of the painting was characteristic of the French Rococo period and was favoured by the wealthy art patrons of his time. The painting depicts a passionate kiss between two lovers, showing a young lady in creme-coloured silk gown who has left her company for a secret meeting with a young man. The composition is diagonal, made up by"
"In spring 2003, artist Cornelia Parker intervened in Auguste Rodin’s sculpture ""The Kiss"" (1886) in Tate Britain by wrapping it in a mile of string. This was a historical reference to Marcel Duchamp's use of the same length of string to create a web inside a gallery. Although the intervention had been endorsed by the gallery, many people felt it offensive to the original artwork and an act of vandalism rather than art. This reaction then prompted a further, unauthorised, intervention, in which Parker's string was cut by Stuckist Piers Butler, while couples stood around engaging in live kissing. In"
"further toward abstraction. His abstract style emphasizes simple geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Here, the shape of the original block of material is maintained. Another version of ""The Kiss"" serves as an adornment of a tomb in Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, France but has since August 2017 been covered up in a box. This version of ""The Kiss"" is one of the artist's most well known works, along with ""Sleeping Muse"" (1908), ""Prometheus"" (1911), ""Mademoiselle Pogany"" (1913), ""The Newborn"" (1915), ""Bird in Space"" (1919) and ""The Column of the"
"pattern, silk draperies, her shawl on the chair, the elegantly clad ladies that are visible through the open door. The dominant French culture influenced how Fragonard chose his themes, that were mostly erotic or love scenes, painted for Louis XV's pleasure-loving court's enjoyment. The Stolen Kiss (Fragonard) The Stolen Kiss is a painting by French painter Jean Honore Fragonard (1732–1806) from the end of the 1780s, depicting a secretive romance. The painting was hosted in the collection of the Hermitage, in St. Petersburg. The style of the painting was characteristic of the French Rococo period and was favoured by the"
"the Whistler Centre, beginning in 1881, ""the gallery was associated with print publishing and specialised in monochrome, very high quality reproductive engravings of paintings by contemporary artists such as Félix Bracquemond and Marcellin Desboutin"". In 1887, Auguste Rodin exhibited ""The Kiss"" and three figures from ""The Burghers of Calais"" at the ""Galerie"". In 1889, Rodin and Monet held a joint exposition there, with Rodin showing 36 works. According to the August Rodin Project, the ""Georges Petit exhibition sealed Rodin’s position as France’s premier sculptor and opened doors to collections and museums around the world."" In the late 1880s, Petit turned"
"""The Divine Comedy"" as well as the story of Orpheus and descriptions of the underworld by Hesiod. He also particularly drew on lines 25-30 and 39-40 in ""The Horseman"", poem 23 in the 1861 edition of Charles Baudelaire's ""Les Fleurs du Mal"": Rodin reused the figure of the woman in several other variants such as the ""Torso of Adele"", ""Eternal Springtime"", ""Paolo and Francesca"" and ""The Kiss"". The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as ""Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle"" or ""Le Rêve"" ) is an 1880 sculpture by"
"The Kiss (Hayez) Il bacio (; The Kiss) is an 1859 painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez. It is possibly his best known work. This painting conveys the main features of Italian Romanticism and has come to represent the spirit of the Risorgimento. It was commissioned by Alfonso Maria Visconti di Saliceto, who donated to the Pinacoteca di Brera after his death. The painting represents a couple from the Middle Ages, embracing while they kiss each other. It is among the most passionate and intense representations of a kiss in the history of Western art. The girl leans backwards,"
"of texture from the light fabrics, wispy golden hair, and smoothness of their skin. The painting doesn’t strike the viewer but is a rest for the eyes. Bouguereau was inspired by the story of Cupid and Psyche several times: L'Amour et Psyché, enfants L'Amour et Psyché, enfants is an oil painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau in 1890. It is currently in a private collection. It was displayed in the Salon of Paris in 1890, the year Bouguereau was President of the Société des Artistes Français. The painting features Greek mythological figures Cupid and Psyché, sharing an embrace and kiss. Bouguereau"
"equestrian statue of Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm III (1862). In 1889 the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) obtained a plaster of one of Kiss' best known works, ""The Amazon"" and in 1929 the work was cast in bronze and now stands in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. August Kiss August Karl Eduard Kiss (October 11, 1802 – March 24, 1865) was a German sculptor. Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) in Prussian Silesia. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Christian Rauch, Christian Friedrich Tieck,"
"called original editions. In Spring 2003, artist Cornelia Parker intervened in ""The Kiss"" (1886) with the permission of the Tate Britain gallery, where it was exhibited at the time, by wrapping the sculpture in a mile of string. This was a historical reference to Marcel Duchamp's use of the same length of string to create a web inside a gallery in 1942. Although the intervention had been endorsed by the gallery, many viewers of the sculpture felt it offensive to the original artwork, prompting a further, unauthorised, intervention, in which Parker's string was cut by Stuckist Piers Butler, while couples"
"Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting) Pygmalion and Galatea () is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The motif is taken from Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", and depicts how the sculptor Pygmalion kisses his ivory statue Galatea, after the goddess Aphrodite has brought her to life. Jean-Léon Gérôme painted ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" in the summer of 1890. In 1891 he made a marble sculpture of the same subject, possibly based on a plaster version also used as model for the painting. He made several alternative versions of the painting, each presenting the subject from a different angle. The most famous"
"August Kiss August Karl Eduard Kiss (October 11, 1802 – March 24, 1865) was a German sculptor. Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) in Prussian Silesia. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Christian Rauch, Christian Friedrich Tieck, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. His work was mostly executed in the Neo-Classical style and consisted largely of portraits and mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Berlin. Kiss was responsible for two monuments in Breslau: On the west part of the Ring, stood a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick The Great (1842), and another"
"in the Museo Soumaya. Youth Triumphant Youth Triumphant is one of the sculptures created by Auguste Rodin as part of the planning for his ""The Gates of Hell"". It was inspired by Jean Dampt's ""The Grandmother's Kiss"", exhibited in 1893. That work shows a young woman resting in the arms of an old woman, with the pair deeply kissing. He also produced variants of the work. George Grappe concludes that - after Rodin became more popular and he and his companion Rose Beuret signed a 10-year contract with the Fumière et Gavinot foundry - the work was reproduced in different"
"The Kiss of Death (sculpture) The Kiss of Death (""El petó de la mort"" in Catalan and ""El beso de la muerte"" in Spanish) is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba, although others have claimed that its idea was conceived by Joan Fontbernat. The sculpture depicts death, in the form of a winged skeleton, planting a kiss on the forehead of a handsome young man. The sculpture elicits varying responses from the people that view it: is it ecstasy on the face of the young man,"
"exhibited at the Paris World Fair of 1900, the statue was installed in the city in 1901. Subsequently it was to be melted down during World War II. But despite success and the award of the Legion of Honour in 1888, financial difficulties forced Turcan to work for a period in the studio of Auguste Rodin, where he was responsible for carving a large-scale version of the sculptor's ""The Kiss"". Later official commissions included the figure of Painting on the east façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre Palace and the war memorial for the fallen of the Bouches-du-Rhône"
"Ernest Christophe Ernest Christophe (1827 – 1892) was a French sculptor, a student of François Rude and a friend of Charles Baudelaire. Rude assigned him to help with the bronze recumbent effigy to Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, a French politician. The funerary monument is signed ""Rude et Christophe, son jeune élève"" (Rude and Cristophe, his young pupil). His ""Le Masque"" (the Mask) sculpture won Christophe third place in the Paris Salon in 1876 and two of his sculptures, ""La Fatalité"" (Fatality) and ""Le Baiser suprême"" (The supreme kiss) were acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg. Christophe developed a deep friendship with"
"The Waltz (Claudel) The Waltz (French: ""La valse"") or The Waltzers (French: ""Les valseurs"") is a sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel. It depicts two figures, a man and a woman, locked in an amorous embrace as they dance a waltz. The work was inspired by Claudel's burgeoning love affair with her mentor and employer Auguste Rodin. Various versions were made from 1889 to 1905, initially in modelled in plaster, and later cast in bronze. Examples are held by the Musée Rodin and the Musée Camille Claudel. Claudel was studying with Alfred Boucher in Paris when she was first introduced"
"its current location, the Musée Rodin, in 1918. In 1900, Rodin made a copy for Edward Perry Warren, an eccentric American collector who lived in Lewes in Sussex, England, with his collection of Greek antiquities and his lover John Marshall. After seeing ""The Kiss"" in the Salon de Paris, the painter William Rothenstein recommended it to Warren as a possible purchase, but ""The Kiss"" had been commissioned by the French government and was not available for sale. In its place, Rodin offered to make a copy and Warren offered half of its original price (10,000 francs, instead of 20,000), but"
"The Kiss (1929 film) The Kiss is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel and Lew Ayres in his first feature film. Based on a short story by George M. Saville, ""The Kiss"" bears the same title as the 1896 short that ""shocked"" the American public by being the first motion picture to depict a couple kissing. This 1929 production is notable itself for being the last major silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and the final silent performances by both Garbo and Conrad Nagel. Actually, this film is not entirely"
"Auguste Clésinger Auguste Clésinger (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger; 22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter. Auguste Clésinger was born in Besançon, in the Doubs department of France. His father, Georges-Philippe, was a sculptor and trained Auguste in art. Auguste first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1843 with a bust of vicomte Jules de Valdahon and last exhibited there in 1864. At the 1847 Salon, he created a sensation with his ""Woman bitten by a serpent"", produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabatier (the pose being particularly suitable for such a method), thus"
"centuries are represented by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 1640–1 Bust of Cardinal Richelieu, Étienne Maurice Falconet's ""Woman Bathing"" and ""Amour menaçant"", and François Anguier's obelisks. Neoclassical works includes Antonio Canova's ""Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss"" (1787). The 18th and 19th centuries are represented by the French sculptor Alfred Barye. The Objets d'art collection spans the time from the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century. The department began as a subset of the sculpture department, based on royal property and the transfer of work from the Basilique Saint-Denis, the burial ground of French monarchs that held the ""Coronation Sword of the Kings"
"were later expanded into separate works. The museum's several rooms house many more of the artist's works, including ""The Kiss"" (1886), ""Eternal Springtime"" (1884), ""The Age of Bronze"" (1875–76), and ""The Burghers of Calais"", a monument commissioned by the City of Calais in 1884. Rodin Museum The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that contains the largest collection of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Opened in 1929, the museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2012, the museum re-opened after a three-year, $9 million renovation that brought the museum back to its"
"chapels of the Église de la Madeleine in Besançon, of the Via Dolorosa, the Pietà, the Entombment, the Resurrection and ascension. Auguste Clésinger Auguste Clésinger (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger; 22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter. Auguste Clésinger was born in Besançon, in the Doubs department of France. His father, Georges-Philippe, was a sculptor and trained Auguste in art. Auguste first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1843 with a bust of vicomte Jules de Valdahon and last exhibited there in 1864. At the 1847 Salon, he created a sensation with his ""Woman bitten"
"the urge to touch combines with the desire to flee. The Kiss of Death (sculpture) The Kiss of Death (""El petó de la mort"" in Catalan and ""El beso de la muerte"" in Spanish) is a marble sculpture, found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The sculpture is thought to have been created by Jaume Barba, although others have claimed that its idea was conceived by Joan Fontbernat. The sculpture depicts death, in the form of a winged skeleton, planting a kiss on the forehead of a handsome young man. The sculpture elicits varying responses from the people that view it:"
"the time of execution. One of the first virtual galleries on the Internet was the Web Museum. It placed the painting mistakenly as ""The First Kiss"" with the date 1873 instead of ""L'Amour et Psyche, enfants"" with the date 1890. If you see the image of the painting lower right you can see the date 1890 near the name of the author. The resurgence of interest in Classical Greek and Roman mythology of the mid-eighteenth century gave way for the renderings to the story of Cupid and Psyche. The daughter of a King and Queen, Psyche was born with beauty"
"Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary. Thomson picked up 108 votes (0.4%). In spring 2003, artist Cornelia Parker was allowed by the authorities to wrap Auguste Rodin’s sculpture ""The Kiss"" (1886) in Tate Britain in a mile of string. Many people felt it offensive to the original artwork and an act of vandalism rather than art. As a reaction, Stuckist artist Piers Butler cut the string, while couples stood around engaging in live kissing. However, this was described as an individual action outside the main Stuckist group by Thomson, who nevertheless took the opportunity to remark: ""I was puzzled that Parker"