Munch - ing in blackpropaganda

  • Sept. 10, 2014, 2:53 p.m.
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Bergen has the most extensive collection of the works of Edvard Munch who is most famous in western art for The Scream, one copy of this is in Oslo.
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It is interesting to see a painting like this young girl in the morning light which he did before going into the phase of exploring the underlying tensions and psychological states of people -
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What he considered his greatest work is in the art gallery - four pictures making up the Frieze of Life - you can see how these two relate to The Scream
- first Melancholy
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and then On Johann Street
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All from the decade before 1914.
You can see how Munch appears to capture the angst in society.

This is an educational book!!!!!!


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