What the Gallery Says: “This exhibition of photographs, films, and a small selection of prints by Edvard Munch emphasizes the artist’s experimentalism, examining his exploration of the camera as an ...
Curators at the National Museum of Norway have concluded that an enigmatic inscription hidden within Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream was authored by the artist himself. Experts have long ...
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), “Vampire II” (1896). The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, on loan to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (all images courtesy of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) LONDON — ...
Come June, there will be plenty of Munch to go around. You know him - Edvard Munch, Norway's most revered artist of all times, and a global icon for that whirling, screaming head whose anxiety, panic ...
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was well-acquainted with the world of medicine. He was the son and brother of doctors, and he suffered from medical and psychiatric illnesses throughout his lifetime.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard Munch (1863-1944) came into his own as an artist. Geology — and specifically ...
Edvard Munch, “Self-Portrait with Model for a National Monument, Kragerø” (1909-10), original gelatin silver contact print (image courtesy Munch Museum) It’s hard to view the work in The Experimental ...
“I was born dying,” the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is said to have announced near the end of his reasonably long life. A rare Munch exhibition opening this week of 44 mournful paintings ...
"This is not art," wrote a newspaper critic in the October 2, 1902 edition of Aftenposten, reacting to an exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch. "This is filth." A week later, a second critic was ...
On the forested slopes above the Norwegian capital is a railed path whose sunset view inspired Edvard Munch's famous vision. The "sky became blood," he later wrote, and "I heard a huge extraordinary ...