Who painted the kiss better? Vote for your favorite!

I vote B because A has to much psychological baggage. B is about a pure and simple kiss.

B— Chagall speaks to the feel of weightlessness when you kiss someone you love. ❤

B

Why Chagall’s 'Birthday' speaks to my heart directly. 💖

​For me, it is a definitive choice. While Magritte’s 'The Lovers' feels cold, static, and carries a heavy sense of isolation—almost like sightless statues—Chagall’s masterpiece is a pure celebration of life and love.

​It is not a frozen moment; you can actually feel their continuous, dancing motion around the room. The figures are beautifully contrasted in dark tones to stand out, surrounded by the fiery red floor of pure passion. Here, love coexists with warmth, home, and comfort. He isn't just flying; he bends to wrap her in a protective, tender embrace, and she lifts off with him in absolute delight and reciprocity. This is what true happiness looks like!

I say B because it is more my style. It catches my eye and makes me look deeper. It reads better for me. A creeps me out a little.

Elena's description of how he bends to wrap her in that protective embrace just made me tear up a little. B, absolutely. That painting is a whole love story in one frame.

B, no question. That floating, swept up feeling Chagall captured says more about being in love than a thousand words ever could.

A- I love the symbolism that we sometimes don't really know each other, we hide our true selves from our lovers/partners, the passion is there but we don't look deeper or are afraid to look deeper.

Chagall.

B all the way for me! What @TomdWood said.

A it is more intimate. B seems dreamlike, unreal.

Lol forgot to say why. It looks to me like there's more passion.

B

Neither. I prefer Gustave Klimt’s

B - Physical closeness does not guarantee true connection. The veil blocks sight and touch, suggesting an insurmountable barrier between lovers. Even in love, we cannot fully know another person.

Gustave Klimt - I cried when I stood in front of his painting “the kiss”

A - love is always a mystery and you'll never fully know what's in another person's heart or mind if you're only tuning in with your physical senses

A absolutely

B

I like A. I get the meaning right away. Love the symbolism and I can relate to it. Even if we kiss our true love, who will they be in the future? Maybe someone completely different. Or will you be someone else?? Muaaaaaa…..

Changall, with its eternity, leaves you thinking of infinity, and personally I relate it to a kiss FOREVER.

B. It is more whimsical and light. A is strange and not something that makes me smile.

A of course, I love the mystery of Magritte, it gives food for thought.

Edgard Munch!

A

Neither. Both leave me cold.

Both paintings have exquisite stories and connotations that make them striking works of art. I personally would choose (B) The Marc Chagall’s “Birthday”. It has a remarkably sweet and romantic feeling inherent in it that wins me over🥰🥰🥰!

A

As lovers, there is mystique which is captured in A.

I vote for Marc Chagall's Kiss, because I feel that it conveys to me a pure and sincere feeling with no restraints or hiding places.

a

With total certainty, the kid expresses all the emotion

Your question is who painted the kiss better? The Magritte painting has so many layers of potential meaning wrapped up in the symbolism of the piece as a whole that the kiss itself becomes just one of many elements of the painting. In the Chagall piece however all the elements within the painting revolve around and work towards the focal point which is the kiss itself. From that standpoint alone I would say B Chagall painted the kiss better.

For me, Magritte's kiss has almost no meaning and instead, for me, representss hapes that look like people who have no clue who the other person is. With kissing (not just one kiss), feeling that person's spirit and heart to me is crucial. Chagall's dpiction rather delights me because the man conveys the energy of seeking despite what must be a rather uncomfortable position :) which I'm aware is meant to be symbolic. The idea of kissing her made him feel like he was elevated and floating. No comparison in my view.

B

I choose B because a kiss can make one feel weightless. Chagall captures the rush of emotions that can distort reality. Magritte captures a different, more mysterious or forbidden emotion.

B as it is more emotional A is too cold

I voted A for the opposite reason of the comment below, that is for its psychological baggage.

A- They both have their charms and great style, but a tie goes to the Belgian surrealist. Check out the photography site with surrealist edges: airbellphotography.com

A

B. I love Chagall’s paintings because they are so fanciful and light hearted. I own two of his prints

A because it reminds me of the strangers movie lol

I vote for B because it is more playful

B because they’re floating on air to eachother which feels more like love

Voto B perché mi piace B

I like option B, it looks more like a kiss.

A

A this explores to me the first kiss of lovers as they do not know all the mysteries of each other but are drawn to each other, and do they go on from here or not

A

A, for the strangeness, the mystery and the minimalism. B is certainly lighter and more poetic, softer and easier, but less striking...