The Kiss - Modern Version Of The Story

Many people know I used to do faithful reproduction art, but have left that well alone at this time, although now and then I look at works I have... more

by Georgiana Romanovna

Title

The Kiss - Modern Version Of The Story

Artist

Georgiana Romanovna

Medium

Painting - Mixed Mediums

Description

Many people know I used to do faithful reproduction art, but have left that well alone at this time, although now and then I look at works I have done and see something new, or something different that could have been done with the completed work. This was one of those works, and I cannot call it a faithful reproduction, although it was, as I have changed a lot by way of colors and such -and it has gone from an oil painting scan to a mixed media, but it certainly is a dedication to Francesco Hayez, the romantic artist who originally painted "the kiss". I am unsure if he would approve of my modern version, but it is rather beautiful to see colors that are bright, cheerful and romantic - and something that younger viewers may enjoy and then go on to research and enjoy the original.

The Kiss
By Poet - Robert Graves 1895￿1985 Robert Graves

Are you shaken, are you stirred
By a whisper of love,
Spellbound to a word
Does Time cease to move,
Till her calm grey eye
Expands to a sky
And the clouds of her hair
Like storms go by?
Then the lips that you have kissed
Turn to frost and fire,
And a white-steaming mist
Obscures desire:
So back to their birth
Fade water, air, earth,
And the First Power moves
Over void and dearth.
Is that Love? no, but Death,
A passion, a shout,
The deep in-breath,
The breath roaring out,
And once that is flown,
You must lie alone,
Without hope, without life,
Poor flesh, sad bone.

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April 7th, 2013