‘The artist Edvard Munch died last week in Oslo, in his native Norway,” reported Time magazine, almost 80 years ago, Feb. 7, 1944. The magazine described the artist as being “a tall, frail, eccentric ...
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in West Palm Beach has opened Munch: The Formative Years, a rare exhibition bringing together ...
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 (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 — ...
The author for Hyperallergic’s copies of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s So Much Longing In So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch in Norwegian and English (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Likewise, ...
The painting seems to depict Munch's one-time lover, violinist Eva Mudocci. Adam Finnefrock of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art and Flaten Art Museum director Jane Becker Nelson with Portrait of Eva ...
In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky beach with ...
A new exhibition revisits a turning point in the career of the 95-year-old artist: the paintings that faced down death to find meaning in life. By Jason Farago When the video game Bloodborne dropped ...
As Western art’s most memorable utterance of existential pain, Edvard Munch’s The Scream is naturally understood as a definitive glimpse inside the artist’s soul, as much as an embodiment of ...