Munch

“…I sensed an endless scream passing through Nature.”“What ruins modern art is the vast markets, and the demand that pictures look good on the wall… they are not painted for their own sake… not with any intention to tell a story. Seven years ago I travelled to Paris, consumed by a burning desire to Leggi tutto

Munch moved away from Naturalism, the scientific recording of the natural world, even moving away from Impressionism. He digged his own psyche and record subjective experience, and that is how you get something as terrifying as ‘The Scream’ This is how dark subjectivity warps the natural world. He wr Leggi tutto

I have read this book twice and will always come back to it. It is a standard art book about the artist Edvard Munch and tells about his life and work. The illustrations are of good quality and show how his work progressed throughout his life. It is slightly heavy and I would have liked to know a bi Leggi tutto

Short and sweet discription of Munch's life and paintings that offers some helpful interpretations and insights into the world of Munch - a world between heaven and hell / life and death.

This book was given to me many years ago and spent them on the shelf without ever receiving attention. Until now. What a waste it was to have stayed so long without being properly appreciated because it is a wonderful book. It is the biography of Edvard Munch, a painter of fantastic works such as The Leggi tutto

self-portrait with cigarette 🐐🐐🐐

The ONLY reason why this book gets a 4-star rating from me is because the paintings photographed weren’t as sloppy as I’ve seen in other Taschen books, and there were quite a few more paintings displayed than I’d have expected from this publisher — which is a MUST when it comes to art books! In any c Leggi tutto