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Le Baiser, The Kiss, by Auguste Rodin
by Al Bourassa
Title
Le Baiser, The Kiss, by Auguste Rodin
Artist
Al Bourassa
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Artworks
Description
Wikipedia: The sculpture, The Kiss, was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's Inferno who falls in love with her husband Giovanni Malatesta's younger brother Paolo. Having fallen in love while reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the couple are discovered and killed by Francesca's husband. In the sculpture, the book can be seen in Paolo's hand. The lovers' lips do not actually touch in the sculpture, suggesting that they were interrupted and met their demise without their lips ever having touched.
When critics first saw the sculpture in 1887, they suggested the less specific title Le Baiser (The Kiss).
Rodin indicated that his approach to sculpting women was of homage to them and their bodies, not just submitting to men but as full partners in ardor. The consequent eroticism in the sculpture made it controversial.
This digitally altered artwork is my interpretation derived from a photograph taken March 13, 2009 at the Rodin Museum in Paris, France.
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February 2nd, 2018
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