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Happy Birthday, Edvard Munch!
Edvard Munch expressed much of his own inner turmoil through his art, particularly in the earlier part of his career. He painted not what he saw, but what he felt when he saw it, allowing his morbidity and illness to imbue his paintings with a sombre tone.
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Edvard Munch, the master of psychological, emotional and spiritual perception
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter involved in Expressionism, was so attached to his work that he called his paintings his children, which is rather unsurprising given that they were deeply personal.
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Munch (Kindle edition)
Munch (Kindle edition) Author: Patrick Bade Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway’s most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief. During his career, Munch changed his idiom many times. At first, influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism, he turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness…
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Edvard Munch ; résolument moderne
« …et l’on a cru que l’homme était fou. » Dans un article publié dans le journal norvégien Aftenposten en 1923 à l’occasion des soixante ans du peintre norvégien Edvard Munch, le journaliste revenait sur l’accueil ambivalent reçu par l’artiste à ses débuts. Il rappelait que, dès le départ, Munch avait révolté ses contemporains. C’est d’ailleurs l’un des sujets centraux du film de Peter Watkins en 1973, La danse de la vie ; on y voit la solitude de l’artiste face à l’incompréhension d’une société puritaine et bourgeoise qui préfère voir en lui un malade mental plutôt que l’annonciateur de la crise identitaire de cette fin de siècle. On va jusqu’à saboter…
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