The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch
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.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch is a Norwegian born expressionist painter. 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 ...
Edvard Munch Biography
Edvard Munch Biography Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863 and, with the notable exception of the two decades from 1889 to 1909 spent traveling, studying, working and exhibiting in France and Germany, he lived there until his death in 1944.
The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch
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 ...
Melancholy, 1894 by Edvard Munch
Melancholy, 1894 by Edvard Munch. The practice of free love by the bohemians of Christiania, advocated by Jaeger as suited to an anarchist society, led to a good deal of jealousy.
Famous Edvard Munch Paintings
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 ...
Vampire, 1893 by Edvard Munch
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. Munch maintained it was nothing more than a woman kissing a man on the neck.
Anxiety, 1894 by Edvard Munch
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.
Separation, 1896 by Edvard Munch
Separation, 1896 by Edvard Munch Over and over again in his pictures of the middle 1890s Munch used variations of the same images - the column of light on the sea, the blonde giri on the beach, the lustful woman in red, the older woman in black, the unhappy man, etc - juggling them in various combinations to symbolize different human conditions ...
Starry Night, 1893 by Edvard Munch
Starry Night, 1893 by Edvard Munch. Munch's setting for many of the Frieze paintings is the beach at Aasgaardstrand in the Oslo Fjord, where he had spent his summers since the late 1880s.