There are many famous architectural works in the world, and the most representative one is sculpture. The action of sculpture is different. Kissing is the most romantic and can be remembered by everyone. How many famous kiss statue in the world do you know?
1. Unconditional surrender
The sculpture of unconditional surrender is based on the fact that at the end of the World War II, people went on the streets in New York’s Times Square to cheer. A returning navy soldier was so happy that he probably drank too much and was too excited. Holding a strange woman in the street was a deep kiss. A photographer recorded the moment at random, and the freeze shot became a classic.
2. Victory kiss
The kiss of victory was created by the famous French sculptor Jean Louis Toutain The sculpture is currently located on a hillside in Andorra, Spain. This interesting statue shows two people kissing, one riding a bicycle, and the other standing beside the bicycle. This is their victory kiss.
3. To Lover Sculpture
The sculpture in Kharkov, Ukraine, was unveiled in 2003. The artist Dimitry Ivanchenko depicts a pair of lovers who are unable to resist their true love and kiss in the fountain of Ukraine’s second largest city.
4. Meeting place sculpture
The 30-foot-high kissing sculpture at St Pancras Railway Station in London was created by artist Paul Day to commemorate the renovation of the international railway station and was unveiled in 2007. The prototype of the sculpture is the sculptor and his wife.
5. Famous Kiss Statue Cupid and Psyche
The name of the sculpture is “Cupid Kissing Psyche Sculpture“, and the author is Antonio Canova, a famous Italian sculptor. In Greek mythology, Psyche was more beautiful than Venus. Venus envied her beauty and sent her son Cupid to punish her. But Cupid fell in love with Psyche, who was poisoned by death and awakened by Cupid.
6. Lima, Peru – Kiss
In Lima, Peru, in order to celebrate that lovers arrived at the Love Park in time to enjoy the sunset scenery over the Pacific Ocean, Victor Delfin was entrusted to complete the sculpture – “Kiss”. Local people will compete under the sculpture to see who can kiss for the longest time.
7. The first kiss of the Obamas
The plaque at Hyde Park in Chicago, USA, is on outside the business district along the highway, and to commemorate the first kiss of President Barack Obama and his first wife Michelle in 1989.
8. Famous Kiss Statue Brabant, Spain
The hometown monument of Gerband Adriaensz Bredero, a playwright in the golden age of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, connects the red light district of Amsterdam. The sculpture depicts the scene of his satirical play “Brabant, Spain”.
9. Student’s Kiss
The sculpture in Tartu, Estonia, built in 1998 and placed outside the municipal hall, adjacent to the University of Tartu, expressing a more secular love education. It is the Boy and Girl Umbrella Bronze Fountain.
10. Rodin – Kiss
This is Rodin’s landmark work “Kiss” in Paris, France. It taken from the characters in the poem “Divine Comedy”. The protagonists are Paul and Francesca. This sculpture carved from marble raw materials and is a treasure of Duilery Park.
