Talk:The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)

Notes on Translation
Um, I'm new here, but I just went ahead and did what was remaining of the translation. If I did it wrong, or if it's shoddy work, please feel free to send me a flame or two :)

The article's still in need of some heavy copy editing, as there is some redundant information that could be merged/rearranged. But, the Spanish part is done, and hopefully to satisfaction.

I don't know how images work, so I just left them, and their Spanish tags, well enough alone. Cheers!

Sophrosune  (talk)  20:02, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Looks like a great job to me! Nice work :D -- Keithlard 00:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright
If I'm interpreting Public_domain_image_resources correctly where it says "Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired", does that mean that any accurate photograph of The Kiss is PD?

If so, here are a couple of rather good ones:
 * http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rodin/kiss.jpg
 * http://www.the-pantheon.com/images/rodin_the_kiss.jpg

-- Keithlard 17:54, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Useful links
Musée Rodin information on The Kiss

Image of The Thinker here?
A reference to The Thinker should be enought. The Gates of Hell is understandable since you can click on it and zooom to the lower right column. There is a figure of couple there (I have not found confirmation that The Kiss was originaly located there). --JuanPDP 06:55, July 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I don't think The Thinker is relevant enough to merit an image.   Sophrosune   (talk)  14:35, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Query
Hey You did you it well but does anyone know what process he took to make the sculpture? I really need to know for a project I am doing on him. Please just post on here. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.24.240 (talk • contribs)
 * Read the article. There were a number of different versions. Tyrenius —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 14:37, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

A section about polemic and censorship?
I've once watched a documentary that addressed it quite a bit, I think it was from BBC. A quote from an article on the University of Virginia website:
 * In the late 1990s, the Brigham Young University Museum of Art exhibited a show of Auguste Rodin's sculpture; however, the director and other high-ranking university officials made an eleventh-hour decision to omit the famous statue "The Kiss" and three other Rodin works. The museum director feared that the omitted works did not mesh well with the theme of the exhibition, indicating that "the nature of those works are such that the viewer will be concentrating on them in a way that is not good for us." University officials denied that the decision was based on concern that the nudity and passionate embrace of "The Kiss" might offend Provo, Utah's conservative and largely Mormon audience. This was not the first act of censorship against "The Kiss." In 1913, the sculpture, thought to be "too daring," was removed from an exhibition at the Corporation of Lewes in London

--Extremophile (talk) 04:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

The Kiss (sculpture)
Joefromrandb (talk) moved page The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) to The Kiss (sculpture): But this is not the only sculpture entitled The Kiss for which we have an article. The new name of this article may lead to confusion with The Kiss (Brâncuși). There are indeed two sculptures with the same name. Why not call this article The Kiss (Rodin)?

There also exists The Kiss (Hayez painting), and The Kiss (Klimt painting). I wouldn't think of changing one of these to The Kiss (painting) under the pretext that no other article has this name...

These are four cases where the name of the artist should be attached to the title of the respective articles. Coldcreation (talk) 15:41, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No, that was entirely my fault. Fixed now, thanks for catching it. Joefromrandb (talk) 04:40, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Date of creation
There's an inconsistency on the page about the date of creation of the sculpture. The opening paragraph says 1889, the sidebar says 1882 under its original name, and the historical account describes the response and suggested renaming when the work was first seen in 1887. I don't know the right answer, but they can't all be right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan.merkley (talk • contribs) 22:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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Man who posed for Rodin's The Kiss
I am 80 so go back a bit. In the 1950s I bought a London evening paper in which there was a photo of a 90 years still tall old man in a raincoat leaning against the sculpture of The Kiss in Paris. The article said his name was Victor and that he had posed for Rodin for that work. I cut this out of the paper and kept it for many years but can no longer find that article and photo though I tried several evening papers around the 50s probably 1953 and got nowhere. I also cannot find any reference to this man elsewhere in relation to Rodin and his male models. Can anyone verify or find this lovely photo for me.

Thank you.

Msggieg (talk) 18:09, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Lips touching
It may be that the lovers' lips do not touch in Dante's book. But the lips most certainly do touch on Rodin's sculpture. I shot a closeup of the sculpture in the Musee Rodin and will provide the image, if needed. The text should make this clear. Jchuber (talk) 19:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC)