Munch, Edvard - Simbolismo / Expressionismo
Segunda-feira, Fevereiro 26, 2007
Evening on Karl Johan, 1892
Oil on canvas
84.5 x 121 cm
Rasmus Meyer Collection, Bergen
The Scream (or The Cry), 1893
Casein/waxed crayon and tempera on paper (cardboard)
91 x 73.5 cm (35 7/8 x 29")
Nasjonalgalleriet (National Gallery), Oslo
Summer Night´s Dream (The Voice), 1893
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Death at the Helm, 1893
Oil on canvas
100x120.5cm
The Voice, 1893
Oil on canvas
34 1/2 x 42 1/2 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Hands, 1893
Oil on canvas
89 x 76,5 cm
Kommunes Kunstsamlinger, Oslo
The Storm, 1893
Oil on canvas
91,5 x 131 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Clair de lune, 1893
Oil on canvas
140,5 x 135 cm
National Gallery, Oslo
Starry Night, 1893
Oil on canvas
53 3/8 x 55 1/8 in.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Ashes, 1894
Oil on canvas
120.5 x 141 cm
Nasjonalgalleriet (National Gallery), Oslo
Anxiety, 1894
Oil on canvas
94x73cm
Munch Museum, Oslo
Madonna, 1894-95
Oil on canvas
91 x 70.5 cm
National Gallery, Oslo
Puberty, 1895
Oil on canvas
150 x 110 cm (59 5/8 x 43 1/4 in)
Nasjonalgalleriet (National Gallery), Oslo
Death, 1895
Oil on canvas
90 x 120,5 cm
Collection Rasmus Meyer, Bergen
Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette, 1895
Oil on canvas
110.5 x 85.5 cm
National Gallery, Oslo
Death in the Sickroom, c. 1895
Oil on canvas
59 x 66 in
National Gallery, Oslo
Man and Woman, 1898
Oil on canvas
Bergen Art Museum
Red Virginia Creeper, 1898-1900
Oil on canvas
119.5x121cm
Munch Museum, Oslo
Melancholy, Laura, 1899
Oil on canvas
134.5x160cm
The Dance of Life, 1899-1900
Oil on canvas
49 1/2 x 75 in
National Gallery, Oslo
The Dead Mother, 1899-1900
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 35 3/8 in
Kunsthalle, Bremen
Golgotha, 1900
Oil on canvas
80x120cm
Munch Museum, Oslo
Red Creeper, 1900
Oil on canvas
32,5 x 48 cm
National Gallery, Oslo
The Beast, 1901
Oil on canvas
94.5 x 63.5 cm
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Girls on the Jetty, 1903
Oil on canvas
92 x 80 cm
Collection of Vivian and David Campbell
Max Linde's four sons, 1903
Oil on canvas
144 x 199,5 cm
Museum of Arts, Lubeck
Woman in Red Dress (Street in Aasgaardstrand), 1903
Oil on canvas
59,7 x 75,5 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Inheritance, 1903-05
Oil on canvas
119 x 100 cm
Munch Museum, Oslo
Generations, circa 1904
Oil on canvas
96 cm (37.8 in.), Width: 119 cm (46.85 in.)
Private collection
Lübeck Harbor with the Holstentor, 1907
Oil on canvas
84 x 100 cm
Nationalgalerie. Berlin
The Sick Child, 1907
Oil on canvas
1187 x 1210 mm
Tate Gallery, London
Winter at Kragerö, 1912
Oil on canvas
131,5 x 131 cm
Munch Museum, Oslo
Workers Returning Home, 1913-1915
Oil on canvas
201 x 227 cm
Kommunes Kustsamlinger, Oslo
The Wave, c. 1919
Oil on canvas
110 x 130 cm
Private collection
Kneeling Nude, circa 1920-1923
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 31 1/4 in. (82.4 x 79.3 cm.)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Meeting, 1921
Oil on canvas
127 x 108 cm
Private collection
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Em "The Dance of Life, 1899-1900", casais dançam num campo verdejantes próximo da costa, enquanto duas mulheres observam. As duas figuras ao fundo, à esquerda, parecem dançar estáticamente, ao mesmo tempo que o casal ao centro parece ter parado, olhando atentamente para um e outro. Este quadro de Munch baseia-se nas celebrações do solstício de Verão em Argardstrand, no seu país natal, a Noruega. A mulher de branco, que se assemelha à namorada do autor, Tulle Larson, simboliza a virgindade, a mulher de vermelho representa o conhecimento carnal e figura de preto, que olha fixamente para os bailarinos cheia de inveja, representa a velhice. Os contornos deformados e o uso simbólico da cor nesta obra são típicos de Munch e estão ilustrados na sua obra mais famosa intitulada O Grito. O seu estilo é amplamente considerado como aquele que deu origem ao Expressionismo na Europa. Este quadro faz parte de uma série intitulada "O Friso da Vida", que Munch iniciou quando esteve em Paris, após um primeiro caso amoroso infeliz e a morte de seu pai. Impressor talentoso além de pintor, Munch foi um dos pioneiros da arte moderna. Edvard Munch nasceu em Lote (NOR) em 1863 e morreu em Oslo (NOR) em 1944.
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist whose brooding and anguished paintings and graphic works, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of expressionism. Born in Løten, Norway, on December 12, 1863, Munch began painting at the age of 17 in Christiania (now Oslo). A state grant, awarded in 1885, enabled him to study briefly in Paris. For 20 years thereafter Munch worked chiefly in Paris and Berlin. At first influenced by impressionism and postimpressionism, he then turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness and death. In 1892, in Berlin, an exhibition of his paintings so shocked the authorities that the show was closed. Undeterred, Munch and his sympathizers worked throughout the 1890's toward the development of German expressionist art. Perhaps the best known of all Munch's work is The Scream (1893, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo). This, and the harrowing The Sick Child (1881-86, Nasjonalgalleriet), reflect Munch's childhood trauma, occasioned by the death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis. Melancholy suffuses paintings such as The Bridge —in limp figures with featureless or hidden faces, over which loom the threatening shapes of heavy trees and brooding houses. Reflections of sexual anxieties are seen in his portrayals of women, alternately represented as frail, innocent sufferers or as lurid, life-devouring vampires. In 1908 Munch's anxiety became acute and he was hospitalized. He returned to Norway in 1909 and died in Oslo on January 23, 1944. The relative tranquillity of the rest of his life is reflected in his murals for the University of Oslo (1910-16), and in his vigorous, brightly colored landscapes. Although his later paintings are not as tortured as his earlier work, a return to introspection marks his late self-portraits, notably Between Clock and Bed (1940, Munch Museet, Oslo). Munch's considerable body of etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts is now considered a significant force in modern graphic art; the work is simple, direct, and vigorous in style, and powerful in subject matter. Few of Munch's paintings are found outside Norway. His own collection is housed in the Munch Museet.
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