MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / OSLO – Nasjonalgalleriet: L’Urlo, di Edvard Munch

He was a Norwegian painter, whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes (built upon some of the tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism). In 1881, Edvard Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, where experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism. Never married, he called his paintings his children, and hated to be separated from them. Living alone on his estate outside Oslo for the last 27 years of his life. He paints, or rather regards, things in a way that is different from that of other artists, and continued to employ a variety of brushstroke techniques and color palettes. Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944. http://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/

An renowned psychiatrist, was investigating unconscious phenomena and the influence of childhood events on the causation of neurosis, a little known artist, Edvard Munch. The most painful event in Edvard Munch’s life was the premature death of his mother from tuberculosis when he was five years old. One evening he was walking along a path (the city was on one side and the fjord below). Munch he felt tired and stopped, looking out over the fjord. The sun was setting and the clouds turning blood red. It seemed to him that he heard one scream. He painted that picture. “The Scream” (or “The Cry”), is a famous painting of Edvard Munch (made in four versions, two pastels and twi paintings). We propose a trip to Norway, to admire the one located at the Nasjonalgalleriet Oslo (version on cardboard with oil, tempera and pastel, size 83.5 x66 cm, 1893). Several facts indicate Munch was aware of the danger of an art of this sort for a neurotic humanist like himself. Essentially, this picture is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch’s experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. Munch’s The Scream, for us it is an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time (as Leonardo evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity, Munch defined how we see our own age, wracked with anxiety). You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for http://meetingbenches.com/2015/06/edvard-munch-18641944-norwegian-painter-the-impressionist-who-painted-the-nuances-of-love-and-fear-death-melancholy-and-anxiety/

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