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Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art)

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, The Scream (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive.

The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life... Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9783822859711
  • Genres
  • art, biography, history, collections, reference
  • Release date
  • 2011