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Edvard Munch: Beyond the Scream
Unfortunately, The Scream is such an iconic painting that Edvard Munch's reputation with many lays almost exclusively upon that single work of art. A couple of years ago, there was a major retrospective of Munch's work in NYC. I was there at the time to see the great exhibition of Michelangelo's drawings at the Met. The weather at the time was brutal and I was with my wife who was not up to face trekking further through a Manhattan Winter to see the Munch exhibition as well. I did, however, pick up the catalog of this show. I had long been an admirer of Munch but more of his early efforts than his later works. This catalog covered the whole of his career, and I was surprised at just how fine many of his late works were.
-Ashes
-Eros: The Morning After
-The Vampyre
-The Dance of Life
-The Three Stages of Women
Munch's earlier works were Expressionistic both in terms of form with his whipped up marriage of Art Nouveau linearity and the raw paint handling of Van Gogh as well as in terms of his subject matter. Love, Sex, Angst, Disease, and Death were the themes of his Psycho-Sexual Dramas. His later paintings remained just as Expressionistic... while the subject matter broadened.
-The Voice: Summer Night
-The Artist and His Model
-The Artist and His Model
-Man in a Cabbage Field
-Starry Night
Unfortunately, The Scream is such an iconic painting that Edvard Munch's reputation with many lays almost exclusively upon that single work of art. A couple of years ago, there was a major retrospective of Munch's work in NYC. I was there at the time to see the great exhibition of Michelangelo's drawings at the Met. The weather at the time was brutal and I was with my wife who was not up to face trekking further through a Manhattan Winter to see the Munch exhibition as well. I did, however, pick up the catalog of this show. I had long been an admirer of Munch but more of his early efforts than his later works. This catalog covered the whole of his career, and I was surprised at just how fine many of his late works were.
-Ashes
-Eros: The Morning After
-The Vampyre
-The Dance of Life
-The Three Stages of Women
Munch's earlier works were Expressionistic both in terms of form with his whipped up marriage of Art Nouveau linearity and the raw paint handling of Van Gogh as well as in terms of his subject matter. Love, Sex, Angst, Disease, and Death were the themes of his Psycho-Sexual Dramas. His later paintings remained just as Expressionistic... while the subject matter broadened.
-The Voice: Summer Night
-The Artist and His Model
-The Artist and His Model
-Man in a Cabbage Field
-Starry Night