Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.
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Definitive works that define this master's artistic legacy.
View all 57 worksThe Scream is an art composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik ('Scream'), and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur ('The Scream of Nature'). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as representing a profound experience of existential dread related to the human condition.
Munch's Madonna (1893–94), a femme fatale par excellence, visually hints at the imagery of victimization. The familiar gestures of surrender (the arm behind the head) and captivity (the arm behind the back, as if bound) are clearly if softly stated. These gestures have a long history in Western art.... Munch used it in his Madonna to mitigate his assertion of female power; the gesture of defeat subtly checks the dark, overpowering force of Woman.
The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det syke barn) is the title given to a group of six paintings and a number of lithographs, drypoints and etchings completed by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch between 1885 and 1926. Each work records the moments before the death of his older sister, Johanne Sophie (1862–1877), from tuberculosis aged 15. Munch repeatedly returned to this deeply traumatic event in his art over a period of over 40 years.
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