Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sensuality and artistry, part 1

I've seen an awful lot of Rodin's famous, familiar, iconic, "The Kiss" sculpture recently, mainly because it's featured on the cover of "The Science of Kissing" by Sheril Kirshenbaum. If you don't remember what it looks like, here's one version below.



All very sweet and romantic. (Not quite, if you read the story behind "The Kiss".)
















What I barely remembered but recently accidentally recalled was that Rodin had another, more sensual (i.e. "hot") sculpture of a kiss, entitled "Eternal Spring" (alternately "Eternal Springtime"). One version of it in bronze is shown below, followed by a review.










(Now if it was me in that position I might be a little more, ahem, interested, but maybe it's because the guy is trying to keep both of them from falling off the side of a cliff with his other arm.)



Eternal Spring, also known as Eternal Springtime, probably modeled 1881, this marble executed 1906–7
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
Marble


Links to three other pictures of this work:

Eternal Spring 1

Eternal Spring 2

Eternal Spring 3

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