Edvard munch
During these early years in his career, Munch experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism.
During
his lifetime of work, he made one of the most important and lasting contributions
to the development of Modernism in the twentieth century. he gave voice to
these, in his handling of paint and the graphic media (especially woodcut and lithography),
Munch was original and radical. He is one of the artists who made us understand
and transformed the ways
in which art can be visually expressed.
Munch
developed these great themes of Angst, Love and Death during the 1890s.
His images of dread, anxiety,
loneliness and the complex emotions of human sexuality have become icons of our
time.
Many of us know such images as:
The Scream,
Anxiety,
Melancholy,
Jealousy; The Kiss, Madonna, Vampire, and the dance
of life.
One
of strongest influences on Munch's development was Christian Krogh whose
adoption of the Realism of French artists such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard
Manet formed a distinctive alternative to the romantic naturalism which had subjected
Norwegian art for much of the century.
