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An echo of van Gogh can be seen in Edvard Munch's insistent, emotional art at the Clark. ... The most revealing single work here, for me, must be “The Storm,” also from 1893.
Known as the painter of "The Scream," the Norwegian artist and his loved ones spent many years suffering from health ...
Edvard Munch wasn’t the first to use landscape as a mirror to the soul. But has anyone ever done it so vividly, ... “The Storm” is a close cousin of “The Scream,” made the same year.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s treatise on the art of Edvard Munch, ... Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” which took the literary world by storm over the last decade, is a 3,600-page, ...
Edvard Munch is best known for The Scream, a painting of a tortured human face unveiled in 1893. But the famous painting is only a small piece of the Norwegian artist’s oeuvre, which includes ...
Edvard Munch, 1863–1944, was a zeitgeist conductor. Like Dostoyevsky before him, like Kafka after him, he was one of those somewhat hastily assembled humans—the skull plates not stapled down ...
Edvard Munch, “Self-Portrait Wearing Glasses and Seated Before Two Watercolors at Ekely” (ca. 1930), original Gelatin silver contact print (image courtesy Munch Museum) ...
Edvard Munch, "Self-Portrait in Hell," 1903. (Munch Museum, Oslo) They are not arranged chronologically or to tell a biographical story, but by themes — with Munch’s self-portraits dominating.
Edvard Munch at the Courtauld shows the artist’s lighter side. Mortality is an insistent presence: an 1886 painting of his younger brother Andreas as a medical student absorbed in the study of ...
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), “Vampire II” (1896). The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, on loan to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (all images courtesy of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) ...
In the 1890s, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch ran afoul of his painting teacher, Leon Bonnat. “Use your eyes, young man,” Bonnat shouted when he saw that Munch had depicted a pinkish brick wall ...
The reputation of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has never been higher. In recent decades, scholars have elevated his role in the history of art while collectors fueled an explosion in prices for ...