Eduardo Kobra's Explosion of Love
A vibrant explosion of colors and creativity by Eduardo Kobra
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Explosion of Love by Eduardo Kobra is a pure 'explosion' of colors and creativity. The title does justice to the artwork and the artist.
The image shows a white wall of a 1930s New York building gradually transforming into a colorful panel, reminiscent of the famous Times Square photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945.
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The photo depicts a kiss between a sailor and a nurse after receiving the news of the end of World War II.
The mural took 15 days to complete and has since become a tourist attraction.
Like in other works, the plastic artist did not arrive at the space with the idea ready.
The iconic photo by Eisenstaedt, published in Life magazine, caught his attention by condensing affection in a so urban, fast, and gray setting.
In 2017, Kobra launched his first serigraphy after delicate and exhausting tests, which lasted about four months, especially regarding colors. "We made dozens of color tests for printing, to keep exactly the same colors of the New York mural, preserving totally the light and shadow of the original work," the artist explains.
According to Kobra, the choice of the work Explosion of Love or "The Kiss", as it became known, obeyed artistic, affective, and market criteria.
"The mural became famous all over the world and even a tourist point in New York. Daily, it is photographed by hundreds of people, including couples in love. There are even guides talking about the work! I decided it would be the theme of my first serigraphy, because many people ask me to acquire something related to this mural."
A kiss for history...
And it is in the work next to it that the sailor George Mendonsa and the nurse Greta Zimmer Friedman are immortalized in a photograph taken in Times Square, New York.
In 1945, at the exact moment of the end of the second great war.
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