Amanda O’Neill – The Life and Works of Munch

Edvard Munch, Norway’s greatest painter, is instantly identified by most people with a single work, the harrowing image of “The Scream”. Like his contemporaries and fellow Scandinavians, the dramatists Ibsen and Strindberg, he shocked many with his realism, with stark canvases depicting, in his own words, ‘human beings who breathe and feel and love and suffer’. But as the many striking works reproduced in this nook show, his genius so far transcended the tragedies of his own life and those he perceived in the lives of others as to offer, if not hope, at least survival. With Van Gogh and Gauguin, Munch was acknowledged as a father of the 20th century’s major artistic movement: his early rejection by the European establishment sparked artistic revolts, the Sezessionen, that were to give rise to Expressionism.   źródło opisu: Okładka źródło okładki: Zdjęcie własne