The Kiss (Brâncuși sculpture)
The Kiss | |
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French: Le Baiser | |
Artist | Constantin Brâncuși |
Year | 1907-08 |
Type | Plaster sculpture |
Dimensions | 27.9 x 26 x 21.6 cm (11 x 10.25 x 8.5 in) |
Location | Possibly the Rockefeller-Latner cast |
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 sculpture is considered the first modern sculpture of the twentieth century.
This plaster was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show and published in the Chicago Tribune of 25 March 1913.[1] This early plaster sculpture is one of six casts that Brancusi made of the 1907–08 The Kiss.
It is a symbolistic work of two lovers embracing, a theme represented in numerous pieces of art full of erotism, from Auguste Rodin and Edvard Munch, to Gustave Moreau.
Versions
The original Marne stone carving is at Craiova Art Museum, in Romania.
Brâncuși created many versions of The Kiss, further simplifying geometric forms and sparse objects in each version, tending each time further toward
[4] Another version still can be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[5]
This version of The Kiss is one of the artist's most well known works, along with
References
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Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1916, Smarthistory[6] |
- ^ Walt Kuhn scrapbook of press clippings documenting the Armory Show, vol. 2, 1913, Page 96, published Chicago Tribune, 25 March 1913 (the published cropped image is the same photograph reproduced here)
- ^ BBC News, review: Brancusi at the Tate Retrieved January 13, 2011
- ^ In a Parisian Cemetery, a Lovely Brancusi Has Vanished in Plain Sight at Hyperallergic
- ^ BBC, The Kiss, Montparnasse cemetery
- ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art version
- ^ "Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
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