Munch created many works in a thematic vein, including The Kiss (1897), and exhibited them along side each other in what he called The Freize of Life. The themes in the series ranged from love and death, sex, anxiety, infidelity, jealousy and the stages of life, and included the famous painting The Scream. Munch never married. The dark ambiance of The Kiss is representative of Munch's ambivalence regarding romance.