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Water Lilies

Model on the Couch

Ludvig Karsten

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Snow Falling in the Lane

The Scream

Promenade des Anglais, Nice

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Eye in Eye

Madonna

Girl Washing

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Moonlight over Oslo Fjord

Albert Kolmann

Arrival of the Mail Boat

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The Murderess

Tavern in St. Cloud

Four Ages in Life

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Christen Sandberg

Melancholy

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Edvard Munch was a highly influential Norwegian artist at the forefront of the symbolist movement and greatly important in the development of a new breed of art later deemed expressionist art. Munch creating art in various modes- from printmaking to painting and was bold in his pursuit of creating unique and innovative work. Much of Munch's work is held up as quintessential examples of the power of expressionism and the boldest aspects of symbolism.

Munch was born in a very rural area of Norway in 1863. He experienced a quite tumultuous childhood that involved the death of both his mother and a favorite sibling that is thought to have shaped his highly individual and subjective view of the world (later enunciated in his paintings). The Munch children were said to have inherited their artistic talent from their mother, who incorporated creative and decorative art into the family's everyday life. Munch also was influenced by an uncle, Andreas Munch, who found marginal success as a painter, but who passed away shortly after Edvard's birth. Contributing to his later involvement in the symbolist movement, Munch was an avid reader of Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer whose Gothic poetry and fiction greatly contributed to the development of symbolism.

A life of poverty, a genetic inheritance of insanity and the constant presence of sickness and death colored Munch's early work as he depicted the interiors of sordid apartments, dim landscapes and other macabre fascinations. In his mid-20's Munch abandoned studies at a local technical college in order to become a painter. In a diary, Munch outlined his intentions for himself in this regard: “in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.” Munch did not intend to achieve fame or riches through his art, but simply wanted to derive a satisfaction in life and to ease the melancholy that had plagued him for most of his life. Munch attended the Royal School of Art and Design of Christiania, where he experimented with many styles including impressionism and naturalism. Munch later deemed impressionism to be restrictive, and began to explore the energies and elements that comprised the expressionist style.

A subset of the modernism movement, expressionism strives to present the world in purely subjective means, stripping it of realistic elements and allowing it to communicate mood and feeling. This objective often involved extreme distortions of natural and organic subjects, sweeping brush strokes and the innovative use of color. Much of Munch's work is considered to have been at the forefront of the movement and remains in esteem today as characteristic of this highly original school of art. Munch's later and most popular art- considered, perhaps, some of the most identifiable work of all time- is characterized by the exploration of anxiety in the modern mind. In his lifetime, Munch achieved notoriety for his work and its ability to communicate its meaning and resonate almost immediately with all viewers. For enthusiastically modern paintings like those of Munch's, explore our Abstract Canvas section.

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