This is one of the most famous love scenes in the history of art. Two lovers, sculpted from a single marble, created to love each other forever.
This embrace is inspired by Dante’s poem The Divine Comedy. It depicts Francesca da Rimini and her brother-in-law Paolo Malatesta, with whom she was in love at first sight. The lovers were murdered by Francesca’s husband, who caught them reading the adventures of Lancelot and Queen Genevere (also lovers). We can also see the book on Rodin’s statue in Paolo’s left hand.
These lovers from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy were originally conceived as part of a group of sculptures, but the success of the pair led Rodin to make the sculpture an independent piece.
The man and woman in the painting seem so close and at the same time so distant. The white fabric on the faces of the lovers deprives the lovers of the various senses that are normally required during an embrace: sight, touch; smell, hearing and even taste are absent under those strange veils that shackle the faces of the two. This paradoxical distance lends beauty and mystery to Magritte’s work.
The artist has left the piece open to interpretation. Some see the painting as a reference to the artist’s adolescent suffering after his mother’s suicide, when her body was pulled out of the river, the drowned woman’s head was wrapped around the hem of her nightgown.
For others, Lovers with hidden faces tell us that love is blind. They see nothing around them: neither the true faces of their lovers, nor themselves.
This photo, which the author jokingly called “Unconditional Surrender”, became a symbol of victory in the Second World War for Americans. On August 14, 1945, Japan accepted the terms of the surrender and jubilant crowds took to the streets of American cities.
Life photojournalist Alfred Eisenstadt rushed to capture the joy of the crowd, and among the hundreds of people one sailor grabbed his attention. The young man grabbed all the women indiscriminately and kissed them. And as he embraced the nurse, Alfred captured the moment.
The contrast between his dark uniform and her white dress is what gives the picture the extra impact.
This kiss could be called the most scandalous. Two kissing policemen, one with handcuffs in his pocket and the other with a police baton, were created by Banksy in protest against the authorities.
In 2004, this provocative painting of pair of gay policemen kissing on the wall of the Prince Albert Bar in Brighton, England, was painted over with black paint. After restoration, the image was carefully removed from the wall and sold at Fine Art Auctions in Miami for $575,000 to an anonymous buyer.
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