All
together
now:
“mwah!”
The delicate miracle of a romantic kiss
The delicate miracle of a romantic kiss
FIRST KISS IS LIKELY TO BE ONE OF YOUR MOST POWERFUL MEMORIES. THE MIRACLE OF KISSING HAS BEEN CELEBRATED THROUGH ART AND LITERATURE FROM THE ANCIENT SACRED TEXTS TO THE VIRAL VIDEOS OF NOWADAYS. TO SUPPORT THE CAUSE WE OFFER YOU SOME VISUAL STIMULATION. IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHAT TO DO AT THE END OF THE DAY, HERE’S WHAT WE SUGGEST. SEAL THE PASSING DAY WITH A KISS AND START PLANNING SOME SERIOUS KISSING TOMORROW.
Rene Magritte
“The Lovers”, 1928
William Blake
“Satan Watching the
Caresses of Adam
and Eve”, 1808
As the first couple on earth, Adam and Eve would have shared the first kiss. William Blake’s enthrallingly delusional depiction of the incident channels the magnetic power of sex. The gossiping Satan and Snake spice up the scene and evoke the thrilling images of what is to come after the kiss.
Jean-Honoré
Fragonard “The
Stolen Kiss”, 1786
The cheerfully provocative work of Fragonard is full symbolism and the attention to detail is meticulous. “The Stolen Kiss” from the Hermitage collection is a masterpiece of roccoco painting that is sensual and playful and one step ahead of its time. The painting’s emotional truthfullness makes it a precursor of the Romanticism.
Gustav Klimt
“The Kiss”, 1908-1909
It’s amazing how Gustav Klimt’s most famous painting makes use of the “religious golds”. These shades and colors are usually associated with pristine madonnas and overwhelming radiance of God. Purposefully or not we do not know, but the e ect is delivered — the divine magnicence of the act of kissing is upon the painting’s viewers. The souls of the lovers are on their lips.
Edward Munch
“The Kiss”, 1897
It’s argued by some art scholars that Edward Munch’s “The Kiss” is an autobiographical painting. The troubled Norwegian artist was a solitary person. He never married and had a tumultuous a air that ended in a strategically unsuccessful suicide attempt. The power of this painting is in its delirious sensuality. It’s a great depiction of a moment when two souls blend in bliss. And the kiss takes away the loneliness.
Man Ray (Emmanuel
Radznitzky),
Rayograph, 1922
Possibly, the most famous lips in art history are Lee Miller’s. Her lover, American avant- garde artist Man Ray, painted, photographed and collaged them. The intense and always wistful images have a tint of sadness to them because they were made after the couple broke up. Almost a decade prior to that Man Ray created the incredible rayograph or a picture made on photographic paper without the aid of a camera. This image of a kiss is as delicate and miraculous as your first kiss can be in reality.
Andy Warhol.
Still from “The Kiss”,
1963
Andy Warhol’s experimental lm “The Kiss” is a 54 minute exercise in repetion. It entices the viewer with its three-and- a-half-minute shots of couples kissing. The lovers seen lip- locked here are Factory’s regulars. They are cool as fuck and deserve the Grace Jones’ line “My killer kiss, hot as ice”. And if you want to see something even more intimate and honest and cheeky, look no further than the follow-up to this lm. It is called “Blow Job”.