"The Kiss" (1925) by Willem de Kooning@traditional_artArt Institute of Chicago 🖼charcoal on wove paper#ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #galleries #glam #ModernArt #kunst #expressionism

high-contrast, symbolist style. neck-up side view of a woman facing directly upward, kissing a long-haired male figure whose forehead faces the viewer. on the left the woman's hand rests on his upper arm. the kissers take up about half the space, the rest resembling a blanket that rests on their silhouettes.
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There's something about the way the lines around the couple and abstract facial features in Kooning's piece that makes it look to me as if it's an earlier stage of the fusion somehow. But indeed, it's not like it's the same motive.

In earlier renditions of Munch's the Kiss the lovers had not yet merged. This one gives a very different vibe, especially with the use of colour:

Kiss by the window, 1892

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