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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch(1863 - 1944), was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker,
and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art.
His best-known painting, The Scream (1893), is one of the pieces in a series
titled The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life,
love, fear, death, and melancholy. As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it.
Similar paintings include Despair and Anxiety
The Frieze of Life themes recur throughout Munch's work, in paintings such as The Sick Child
(1886, portrait of his deceased sister Sophie), Love and Pain (1893-94) though more commonly
known as "Vampire." Art critic Stanislaw Przybyszewski mistakenly interpreted the image as
being vampiric in theme and content, and the description has since stuck, Ashes (1894), and
The Bridge. The latter shows limp figures with featureless or hidden faces, over which loom
the threatening shapes of heavy trees and brooding houses. Munch portrayed women either as
frail, innocent sufferers (see Puberty and Love and Pain) or as the cause of great longing,
jealousy and despair (see Separation, Jealousy and Ashes). Some say these paintings reflect
the artist's sexual anxieties, though it could also be argued that they are a better
representation of his turbulent relationship with love itself.
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