The Kiss (Brancusi sculpture)

The Kiss (Brancusi sculpture)

The Kiss is a sculpture by Constantin Brâncuşi. The kiss is an example to his abstracted, non-literal representation style. He created a many versions of "the Kiss", further simplifying forms to geometrical and sparse objects in each version.


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