Seccormico Hayez The Kiss

When a girl kisses a boy thoughts rush into her brain trying to decipher what he might be thinking and what his motives are. These questions could be as simple as does he like me or as complicated as what will this mean for the rest of my relationships, but in the end a kiss is never as simple as two pairs of lips touching. In some cases, the kisses between two characters are forbidden and exciting. The story behind what lead to the kiss and what happens after gets lost in that specific moment in which time seems to stand still. In The Kiss, created in the year of 1859, by Francesco Hayez, is an oil on canvas painting that depicts a young man and woman captured in the middle of a passionate moment in the hallway of a castle. The painting is representative of the Italian school of romance. The Kiss has a meaning deeper than just a wild night out, it attracts people with drama, it is symbolic of international affairs and climbing of the social latter that draws in the audience’s attention with appealing contrast and colors. With out these things the artists voice would be lost. The main image in this painting is a man and woman, who look as if they are in their early twenties, captured
France is being portrayed by the woman, with her pale ball gown and her fair skin tone, while Italy is a more menacing picture as the man, towering over the woman and seemingly controlling her movements. The black feather in the man’s hat is supposed to represent Fascism of the day and how Italy began to embrace the political ideology in that time period. France in 1859 had a deal with some of the city-states of Italy and with Frances help, the country of Italy was created. The secretiveness of the whole deal is represented by the lookout in the left hand corner, waiting to warn the two countries before anyone came to question why they were seeing each other in the first