Edvard Munch

 

Edward Munch was one of the forefathers of Modern Art. His creation wined the honor_“Spiritual Realistic”. His work shows strong subjective feeling with flavor of grief and depress. He stressed expression of lines and color. Picasso and Matisse even absorb nutrition from his work. His achievement depended on He revealed the enclosed soul of his contemporaries and developed art direction to symbol and conveying emotion. His work “shout”, make viewer shieve and shock. It seems the nature was bleeding and strongly yelling.
Munch’s symbolism emphasized the “private side”. Munch’s pictorial work is a direct expression of his innermost experience. His life was marked by pain, death, suffering, disease, abandonment, loneliness. These are the essential themes of his compositions, and they take life through symbols emerging as anxious and recurrent presences from his past.

Munch based this painting on mid summer celebrations at Aasgardstrand in his native Norway. The woman in white, who looks like the artist’s girlfriend Tulla Larson, symbolizes virginity, the woman in red stands for carnal knowledge and the figure in black, gazing jealously at the dancers, represents old age. The distorted outlines and the symbolic use of color in this work are typical of Munch and are exemplified most famously by his work THE SCREAM.” (20th Century Art)