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The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch. Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the 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.
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.
- Edvard Munch By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
Edvard Munch Masterpieces. The Sick Child, 1885; Night in Saint Cloud, 1890; Spring Day on Karl Johan Street, 1891; Evening on Karl Johan Street, 1892; The Mystery of a Summer Night, 1892; The Scream, 1893; Vampire, 1893; Starry Night, 1893; Puberty, 1894; Madonna, 1894; Anxiety, 1894; The Day After, 1894-95; Death in the Sickroom, 1895; Woman ...
The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch. The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det Syke Barn) records a moment before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie (1862 - 1877) from tuberculosis at 15. Munch returned to this deeply traumatic event again and again in his art, over six completed oil paintings and many studies in various media, over a period of ...
Anxiety, 1894 by Edvard Munch. This 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.
His best-known work, The Scream, has become one of the most iconic images of world art. In the late 20th century, he played a great role in German expressionism and the art form that later followed; namely because of the strong mental anguish that was displayed in many of the pieces that he created.
In an unfolding and often only loosely connected series of paintings, drawings, and prints, Munch developed these great themes of Angst, Love, and Death during the 1890s - a project he calls The frieze of life - and repeatedly returned to them until the end of his life.
The Storm, 1893 by Edvard Munch. A violent storm at Asgardstrand is said to have inspired this picture. The force of the wind os suggested by the bending of the central tree, continued in the cloud striations above it, and the wisps of hair blown up from the head of the woman in white.
Vampire, 1893 by Edvard Munch The truth is, Munch did not title this painting "Vampire." He called it "Love and Pain" and it was only later that it picked up the name and interpretation of a man locked in a vampire's embrace.