''kiss''

Author Rodin

"Kiss", marble statue, height 190 cm, French sculptor Rodin, created from 1884 to 1886, now in the Rodin Museum in Paris. "Kiss" is adapted from the love tragedy of Francesca and Paul in Dante's Divine Comedy. Rodin used this theme in a more magnanimous form, creating two desperate secular slanders. Lovers, the moment of the kiss in the tryst. Rodin cleverly used the impressionist artist's technique of capturing natural light and shadow moments in smelting bronze to create a real artistic conception.

This sculpture incorporates the lower half of the two-person seat into the overall marble, avoiding the bulkiness of the feet and enhancing the overall sense of the seat. It is carved with extremely classic realism techniques. Their undulating, delicate and elegant figures and postures create extremely vivid light and shadow effects. It seems that the youthful enthusiasm and life inside are flashing with these lights and shadows. Seeing this lifelike and dazzling masterpiece, everyone has to be excited about it, that is, moved by the origin of life. Love is the eternal theme of the world's immortality. Rodin chose to kiss naked men and women. Therefore, the first contact with pure meat is the most touching. In the work, the soft bodies of the hero and heroine are hugged together with a throbbing heart, and merge into an indivisible whole tightly and without gaps. The lovers burned by the fire of desire are placed in the “gate of hell”, expressing the author’s unresolved pain and contradictory thinking: human sin comes from insurmountable desire, and desire is due to human’s pursuit of light and happiness Coming, so human desire is the abyss of sin, human joy is the way of sin, human suffering is destined to be irresistible and endless.

Rodin's sculpture "Kiss" is an immortal work expressing the love of men and women. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke commented on this immortal love sculpture: "The kiss of a couple gives a feeling of being spread by the whole sculpture, just like the sun is rising. The sun is shining. Every corner.” Indeed, this couple in love seems to have no one, immersed in this two-person world, with a strong emotional tension, and a woman's nervous and delicate trembling. A vigorous and powerful hug, a kiss is the trembling of the soul, sublimated and integrated in the interaction of the soul!

"Kiss" was originally the statue at the bottom right of Rodin's "Gates of Hell", representing a couple in love. Later Rodin made it into a sculpture alone, which became his famous masterpiece. From the origin of "The Gates of Hell", its meaning shows Rodin's strong support for lovers who are immersed in love and kiss and hug in spite of the worldly slander. Even in the face of hell, lovers will not care about any threats!

The kiss is the trembling of the soul, the throbbing of the heart, flipping through Rodin's romance. This "kiss" is still the affectionate kiss of his lover, female sculptor Crowder, and there is no such woman who is said to be more talented than Rodin. I believe that Rodin's artistic achievements will not reach the level of being hailed as the greatest sculptor after Michelangelo!

It can be said that Claudel is Rodin's muse, without Claudel, there would be no such outstanding achievements as Rodin! A "kiss" can witness their love, and use a kiss to show the theme of love. This is the most beautiful and heart-shaking expression in the world of love!