Edvard Munch

Who is Edvard Munch?

Art class

Edvard Munch

Artist

• Edvard Munch, lived from 1863 to 1944, was a Norwegian painter and graphic artist and one of the most important pioneers of Expressionism in Europe.
• Munch's early paintings are realistic pictures with a strong emotional content.
• Existential themes such as fear, death, love, jealousy and melancholy took center stage.

• Important works by him were: The Scream, The Sick Girl, murals of the University Hall in Oslo

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introduction

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. - Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

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Some helpful questions to describe this picture:

1. What can you see in the foreground+ background?
2. Can you see people?
3. How is the mood in the picture?
4. Just guess.. what do you see, what does the painter want to say with it?
5. What kind of emotions, expression, feelings can you see there?..
6. What colours did the painter use?
7. Do you like the picture? Why? Why not?

The scream

This painting by Edward Munch is one of the most famous of his works.

• shows man in his fear and loneliness.
• You can see in the foreground of the painting a screaming person standing on a bridge.
• This slender, young person has a green and white face distorted with fear, a wide open mouth and eyes fixed in terror. His hands are cramped against his face.
• The person's head looks like a skull and has neither hair nor eyebrows.
• Fear is reflected in the screaming man's eyes, which are widened in horror.
• Munch used a Peruvian mummy as a model for this face.
• Just this picture is shown again and again as one of the most typical of expressionism.

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