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The Kiss by the Window (or Kissing by the Window or simply The Kiss) is an 1892 oil-on-canvas painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, now in the National Gallery of Norway. [1] It forms part of his series known as The Frieze of Life, which treats the cycle of life, death and love and was produced between 1893 and 1918. [citation needed]
The Kiss is an oil painting on canvas completed by the Norwegian symbolist artist Edvard Munch in 1897. Part of his Frieze of Life, which depicts the stages of a relationship between men and women, The Kiss is a realization of a motif with which he had experimented since 1888/89: a couple kissing, their faces fusing as one in a symbolic representation of their unity.
Edvard Munch was born in a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway, to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Munch, the son of a priest.Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura, a woman half his age, in 1861.
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Love and Pain is an 1895 painting by Edvard Munch; it has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch. [1] The painting depicts a man and woman embracing, with the woman kissing the man on his neck. Munch painted six different versions of the same subject between 1893 and 1895.
Young Girls on a Bridge is the title of twelve works by Edvard Munch produced over the course of his lifetime, particularly between 1886 and 1927. [1] They all show a bridge in Åsgårdstrand, a bathing station on the Oslofjord, where the artist spent several summers, a very short season in Norway. [2]
This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life , in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia ...
The Dance of Life or Life's Dance is an 1899–1900 expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, now in the National Museum of Art in Norway. [1] The stages of life are represented by a young virgin in white, a mature woman dressed in red and an old widow in black. The painting was an important work in Munch's project The Frieze of Life.