Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Early years Munch was born into a middle-class family that was plagued with ill health
Early years
Munch was born into a middle-class family that was plagued with ill health. His mother died when he was five, his eldest sister when he was 14, both of tuberculosis
Munch showed a flair for drawing at an early age but received little formal training
Munch soon outgrew the prevailing naturalist aesthetic in Kristiania, partly as a result of his assimilation of French Impressionism after a trip to Paris in 1889 and his contact from about 1890 with the work of the Post-Impressionist painters Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sick Child (1885–1886)
The Munch family
Munch’s own deeply original style crystallized about 1892
style
Munch’s own deeply original style crystallized about 1892. The flowing, tortuous use of line in his new paintings was similar to that of contemporary Art Nouveau, but Munch used line not as decoration but as a vehicle for profound psychological revelation.
«Melancholy»
«The three girls on the dock»
«The sincerity on the verge of insanity»
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disorders
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«The vampire»
Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, a
« the scream»
Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age—wracked with anxiety and uncertainty. His painting of a twisted, fetal-faced creature, with mouth and eyes open wide in a shriek of horror, re-created a vision that had seized him as he walked one evening in his youth with two friends at sunset
The Self portrait in hell» A photographic self-portrait of
«The Self portrait in hell»
A photographic self-portrait of Edvard Munch standing naked in the garden of his summer house in Åsgårdstrand, executed in the summer of 1903, might be seen in connection with one of his famous self-portraits painted the same year. Self-Portrait in Hell clearly reveals how Munch at the time perceived his position as a man and an artist: a private hell. In the foreground, Edvard Munch has placed his own naked and unprotected figure. The abstract background is painted with fierce, expressive brush-strokes that provoke an intense, nervous atmosphere.
Karl Johan Street; and a certain view of
«the anxiety»
his painting draws on two earlier departures: the anxious humanity moving forward as if driven by ominous elemental forces, as first conceived in evening on Karl Johan Street; and a certain view of Oslo Fjord, already seen in The Scream. Both were destined to recur with considerable fidelity in Anxiety and in other works of the same period. Norwegian angst, like its German counterpart, had become the key term not only for Munch's central pictorial content but for the entire tradition that is traced to Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's philosophies, Strindberg's and Ibsen's plays, and the North European modern aesthetic contribution in general.
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