Munch

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\n \"ch John Boulton Smith with $3 iUustrations, 48 in colour Ed várd Munch (1863-1944) is the only Scandinavian painter of modern limes to have achieved a world reputation. A tragic childhood - his mother died when he was five and a sister when he was thirteen - wounded him deeply. and much of his early work expresses this in its agonized pessimism. In the first half of his career he lived much of his life in Germany, and became one of the fathers of modern Germán art. After 1900, however, and particularly after his return to Norvvay in 1909 following a se ve re nervous breakdown, his subjects tended to become more extrovert and objective, while his palette assumed increasingly brighter colours. The period 1910-20 was a particularly prolific one, in which he painted murai decorations for Oslo University and many other outdoor subjects, but Munch continued working throughout his life and produced somé remarkable self-portraits shortly before his death. This introduction to the art... Tovább

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\n \"ch John Boulton Smith with $3 iUustrations, 48 in colour Ed várd Munch (1863-1944) is the only Scandinavian painter of modern limes to have achieved a world reputation. A tragic childhood - his mother died when he was five and a sister when he was thirteen - wounded him deeply. and much of his early work expresses this in its agonized pessimism. In the first half of his career he lived much of his life in Germany, and became one of the fathers of modern Germán art. After 1900, however, and particularly after his return to Norvvay in 1909 following a se ve re nervous breakdown, his subjects tended to become more extrovert and objective, while his palette assumed increasingly brighter colours. The period 1910-20 was a particularly prolific one, in which he painted murai decorations for Oslo University and many other outdoor subjects, but Munch continued working throughout his life and produced somé remarkable self-portraits shortly before his death. This introduction to the art of Munch includes forty-eight full-page colour plates, of work from all stages of his career, from the nacuralism of the early work, through the symbolic psychologieal dramas of the 1890s to the brilliant colours of the later works. John Boulton Smith was an acknowledged authority on the art of Scandinavia. His authorkative essay on Munch has here been revised and updated. 1 he plates are complemented by notes, written by art histórián James Malpas, diseussingeaeh painting in detail, and there is a wealth of black-and-white comparative illustrations. Vissza