Vad var syftet med Skriet?
I Skriet har Munch utvecklat motivet vidare mot en större allmängiltighet. 1895 gör Munch även en litografi där han på vissa exemplar låter trycka ”Jag kände det stora skriet genom naturen”. Motivet har blivit en ikon för den moderna människans ångest och ensamhet.
Hur levde Edvard Munch?
Han ansåg äktenskap vara oförenligt med sina konstnärliga ambitioner och förblev därför ogift tills dess att han gick bort år 1944, 80 år gammal. Edvard Munch föddes i Løten 1863 och var sedan verksam i mer än 60 år. Han var en av modernismens viktigaste konstnärer. Hans mest kända verk är Skriet som målades 1893.
What kind of artist is Edvard Munch?
Edvard Munch. Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/; Norwegian: [ˈɛdvɑʈ ˈmʊŋk] ( listen); 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
What kind of paint did Edvard Munch use?
Munch used a mixture of media in his works of art. The two versions of The Scream studied here were found to include oil paints and oil paints thickened with beeswax and also oil crayons containing beeswax and Japan wax, as well as casein pastels, a paraffin wax crayon and at least one gum-bound paint.
What is a good book about Edvard Munch’s life?
Dolnick, Edward (2005). The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-053118-5. Recounts the 1994 theft of The Scream from Norway’s National Gallery in Oslo, and its eventual recovery Heller, Reinhold, ed. (1984). Munch: His Life and Work. London: Murray.
What was Edvard Munch’s interior Melancholy?
Munch’s younger sister Laura was the subject of his 1899 interior Melancholy: Laura. Amanda O’Neill says of the work, ”In this heated claustrophobic scene Munch not only portrays Laura’s tragedy, but his own dread of the madness he might have inherited.”.