Kiss of Augustin Rodin

Kiss of Augustin Rodin

Rodin is one of the most famous French artists and his works have been appreciated for more than a century. This paper is about his most famous sculpture, the Kiss that has fanned the art lovers all around the world. In this paper we are going to discuss about this sculpture, view from the same angle, but in different settings and backgrounds and would analyze the surroundings in relation to the sculpture's picture. The sculpture is also placed in while plaster where each and every angle of the two lovers is evident from a single view. The movement and the hand are visible, while the amalgamation of the soul however rests with in the eye of the viewer.

This makes the sculpture appealing in the sense that it creates a sense of purity and majesty in the sculpture, which in itself is inspired and motivated from the Paolo and Francesca's tale by Dante which, under the provided lighting conditions makes it rather quite unreal and apparent from the theme which is presented by the artist seems, from this angle and this photographic shading, that the sculpture is more like a thing in the air, with fresh breeze and a sense of sensitivity as well as vagueness. From this photographic image the lighting is the most important part, as it does not create even a single shadow over the sculpture. The lights in this sculpture makes the boarders and the nook and corners of the two beings even more prominent and also gives importance to the eventual kiss that is on display as a sense pf passion, but with purity.(Phaidon S. Pp. 23-26)

However, this sense of purity and freshness is dismayed and shadowed in the other two photographs, taken of Kiss from the same angle. The second photograph that we analyzed in this study is again made in plaster but is darkened as if screened in black and white. The image is the one like black and white, where the white is also not so lightened. The shadow or the lights are in such a position that the sculpture is spotted all over from teal gray spots and gray spots. This techniques of lighting has changed the over all image of the sculpture along with its message. (Paul Gsell Pp. 31)

Where for once, this sculpture was part of Rodin's another series of art, The Gates of Hell, this lighting arrangement has made it all the more a part of the series once again, where the passion and the purity and the serenity of the moment is all the more shadowed by the vagueness of the moment and created an imagery of sin within it. Auguste Rodin (b. 1840, Paris) was a poor boy with a rich talent for drawing who trained at the Ecole Speciale de Dessin et de Mathematique, a school with a mission to educate the designers and the artisans of the French nation. He was rejected three times by the Ecole des ...