Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s works can cause psychological trauma. Or are they depictions of such trauma? There’s something bizarre about them, and said works show how art is not about the outward appearance of things, but their inner complexities. What hides behind a smile? What can you figure out about a person from their body language? What is it about colors?
Anxiety, 1894
The Dance of Life, 1900
Melancholy, 1894
Jealousy, 1895
The Sick Child, 1927
Eye in Eye, 1894
I remember having The Scream freak me out as a child… But the more I look at Edvard’s artwork as I’m older, the more I feel I relate to them. There’s a certain kind of tension I sense from his pieces – something that I can relate to on a personal level.
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Excellent work, and a great post to support it!
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All visual art is essentially a recording of human experience, and because our experience is so varied it’s forever complex and thus endlessly fascinating – at least, for anyone interested in others. What do you make of the paintings of Francis Bacon?
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The visual equivalent of a novel by Kafka.
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