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* PopCulturalOsmosis: His only painting that has reached pop culture fame is "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}", which has been parodied and referenced so often that it practically has become a StockParody. The sad thing is that the general audience doesn't always know who painted it and isn't very familiar with Munch's other works.
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It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}"—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
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It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}"—and "''Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}''" — and for good reason!—we reason! — we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.work.
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* CueTheSun: Munch was assigned to decorate the [[http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html grand hall of the Oslo University]] in 1913, and made his largest pictures for the walls. The most prominent one is ''the Sun'', probably just as archetypical as the Scream, the Madonna and the Vampire.
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* CueTheSun: Munch was assigned to decorate the [[http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html grand hall of the Oslo University]] in 1913, and made his largest pictures for the walls. The most prominent one is ''the Sun'', probably just as archetypical as the The Scream, the Madonna and the Vampire.
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** To top this, the canvas of TheScream has the following words written over the skyline: ''This could only have been painted by a loony''.
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** To top this, the canvas of TheScream Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}} has the following words written over the skyline: ''This could only have been painted by a loony''.
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It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled "The Scream"—and "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}"—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
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* PopCulturalOsmosis: His only painting that has reached pop culture fame is "The Scream", which has been parodied and referenced so often that it practically has become a StockParody. The sad thing is that the general audience doesn't always know who painted it and isn't very familiar with Munch's other works.
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** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose, by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
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** His "Kiss" paintings revisit [[Art/TheKissHayez a theme and pose, by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version Hayez]]. Creator/GustavKlimt's [[Art/TheKissKlimt version]] is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
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* CrapsackWorld: Munch suffered from neurosis, fear and a dominant religious zealot father. Many of his works are about negative emotions and events like death, sexual anxiety, sickness, depression, melancholy, separation, jealousy, sadness,...
** Munch stated that this was a case of ItRunsInTheFamily. His relatives had a choice, he claimed, between dying from consumption at an early age, or going into gradual SanitySlippage.
** Munch stated that this was a case of ItRunsInTheFamily. His relatives had a choice, he claimed, between dying from consumption at an early age, or going into gradual SanitySlippage.
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* CrapsackWorld: Munch suffered from neurosis, fear and a dominant religious zealot father. Many of his works are about negative emotions and events like death, sexual anxiety, sickness, depression, melancholy, separation, jealousy, sadness,...
**sadness. Munch stated that this was a case of ItRunsInTheFamily. His relatives had a choice, he claimed, between dying from consumption at an early age, or going into gradual SanitySlippage.
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* DeathOfAChild: In "Inheritance", which shows a woman clutching her dead or dying infant.
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* FanDisservice: "Death of Marat I" shows a good looking naked man (Marat) and woman (Charlotte Corday), only he's lying dead in a bloody tub and she's giving us a creepy thousand yard stare.
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* FanDisservice: "Death of Marat I" shows a good looking naked man (Marat) and woman (Charlotte Corday), (UsefulNotes/CharlotteCorday), only he's lying dead in a bloody tub and she's giving us a creepy thousand yard stare.
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* BigDamnKiss: His paintings entitled "The Kiss" and a few others.
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'''Edvard Munch''' (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.
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'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.
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'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Munch had to be interred in a mental ward for a while, after suffering from severe paranoid fits and hallucinations. His fall out with the "Bohemians" led by painter Christian Krogh was the apparent background for this. But even Krogh would never think of chasing Munch down with a loaded gun (although Munch had vivid hallucinations of this).
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'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and modern art in general.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled “The Scream”—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled “The Scream”—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
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'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled“The Scream”—and "The Scream"—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagny_Juel Dagny Juel]], one of his most prominent novels (and lovers) was a redhead. She is the model for the ''Madonna'' picture.
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* CueTheSun: Munch was assigned to decorate the [[http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html grand hall of the Oslo University]] in 1913, and made his largest pictures for the walls. The most prominent one is ''the Sun'', probably just as archetypical as the Scream, the Madonna and the Vampire. H
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Note that many of his painted characters avoid eye contact. The lack of communication is notable.
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* TheHecateSisters: An interesting variety. One of his recurring motifs are the maiden, the mother and the whore.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Most of the critics thought so. They mostly thought his paintings were pure crap, and Munch himself was deemed to be out of his mind to paint like he did.
* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: Munch went abroad pretty early after a ''really'' lousy reception in Christiania. He didn`t return for many years.
* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: Munch went abroad pretty early after a ''really'' lousy reception in Christiania. He didn`t return for many years.
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* SanitySlippage: Many pictures deal with the possibility. A lot of critics dismissed him as a madman, and eventually - he had to be interred (1908).
** To top this, the canvas of TheScream has the following words written over the skyline: ''This could only have been painted by a loony''.
** To top this, the canvas of TheScream has the following words written over the skyline: ''This could only have been painted by a loony''.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Munch's art was inspired by his personal depressions and trauma's, for instance the death of his older sister Sophie at age 15 from tuberculosis.
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Right. "The Scream" shows a man hearing the "scream of nature", inaudible to everyone except himself. Funny how that means it is NOT an example of The Scream.
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* BadassMustache: He cultivated one at times, which showed up in some of his self-portraits. Dwarfed, of course, by the one in his portrait of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche.
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: English speakers take note: Unlike the character on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Edvard Munch pronounced it like "moon" with a k at the end.
* MilitaryBrat: Munch was the son of an army doctor.
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* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen,'' (who was suffering from severe depression at the time) and said he was happy the two of them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."
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** Munch stated that this was a case of ItRunsInTheFamily. His relatives had a choice, he claimed, between dying from consumption at an early age, or going into gradual SanitySlippage.
* CreatorBreakdown: Munch had to be interred in a mental ward for a while, after suffering from severe paranoid fits and hallucinations. His fall out with the "Bohemians" led by painter Christian Krogh was the apparent background for this. But even Krogh would never think of chasing Munch down with a loaded gun (although Munch had vivid hallucinations of this).
* CreatorBreakdown: Munch had to be interred in a mental ward for a while, after suffering from severe paranoid fits and hallucinations. His fall out with the "Bohemians" led by painter Christian Krogh was the apparent background for this. But even Krogh would never think of chasing Munch down with a loaded gun (although Munch had vivid hallucinations of this).
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* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen,'' (who was suffering from severe depression at the time) and said he was happy the two of them, them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."
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* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen'', and said he was happy the two of them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."
* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature").
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: His paintings and drawings often use shadows and rings of color to emphasize an aura of fear and anxiety.
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* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature").
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: His paintings and drawings often use shadows and rings of color to emphasize an aura of fear and anxiety.
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** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
* SkullForAHead: The figure on "The Scream" has a pale head that is very skull-like.
** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
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** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme andpose pose, by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and modern art in general.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: "Puberty" features a young, prepubescent girl sitting in the nude on her bed while a large shadow can be seen behind her on the wall. It expresses [[GrowingUpSucks her fear of growing from a girl into a woman]] and [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality sexual angst]].
* {{Angst}}: Munch expressed this feeling in many of his works, some even simply titled "anxiety".
* CrapsackWorld: Munch suffered from neurosis, fear and a dominant religious zealot father. Many of his works are about negative emotions and events like death, sexual anxiety, sickness, depression, melancholy, separation, jealousy, sadness,...
* IllGirl: Subject of "The Sick Child", which was inspired by the death of his older sister at age 15 from tuberculosis.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: His only painting that has reached pop culture fame is "The Scream", which has been parodied and referenced so often that it practically has become a StockParody. The sad thing is that the general audience doesn't always know who painted it and isn't very familiar with Munch's other works.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Munch's art was inspired by his personal depressions and trauma's, for instance the death of his older sister Sophie at age 15 from tuberculosis.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Munch's art was inspired by his personal depressions and trauma's, for instance the death of his older sister Sophie at age 15 from tuberculosis.
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: His paintings and drawings often use shadows and rings of color to emphasize an aura of fear and anxiety.
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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and modern art in general.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled “The Scream”—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
!!Edvard Munch provides examples of:
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: This was one of Munch's innovations that influenced expressionism. Some of his figures had skin tones that were natural for Northern Europe. Others were green, blue, bright red: whatever it seemed like they should be.
* AmbiguousSituation[=/=]DoubleMeaningTitle: The painting "Vampire" shows a man with his head buried in a woman's torso under her cascading hair. The title could conceivably refer to either one of them.
* BadassMustache: He cultivated one at times, which showed up in some of his self-portraits. Dwarfed, of course, by the one in his portrait of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche.
* BigDamnKiss: His paintings entitled "The Kiss" and a few others.
* TheBlank: A lot of figures in his works, especially background ones, are missing some or all of their facial features. The androgynous central figure of "The Scream" has a face but no hair or ears.
* FanDisservice: "Death of Marat I" shows a good looking naked man (Marat) and woman (Charlotte Corday), only he's lying dead in a bloody tub and she's giving us a creepy thousand yard stare.
* FemmeFatale: Dark and dangerous women abound in his work.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Female models with red hair seem to be a bit of AuthorAppeal for Munch.
* InfantImmortality: Averted in "Inheritance", which shows a woman clutching her dead or dying infant.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: English speakers take note: Unlike the character on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Edvard Munch pronounced it like "moon" with a k at the end.
* MilitaryBrat: Munch was the son of an army doctor.
* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature").
* ShoutOut:
** He painted portraits of two of his heroes: Nietzsche and playwright Creator/AugustStrindberg.
** His painting "Starry Night" is a more subdued take on the subject than that of Creator/VincentVanGogh, who was still largely an unknown.
** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled “The Scream”—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.
!!Edvard Munch provides examples of:
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: This was one of Munch's innovations that influenced expressionism. Some of his figures had skin tones that were natural for Northern Europe. Others were green, blue, bright red: whatever it seemed like they should be.
* AmbiguousSituation[=/=]DoubleMeaningTitle: The painting "Vampire" shows a man with his head buried in a woman's torso under her cascading hair. The title could conceivably refer to either one of them.
* BadassMustache: He cultivated one at times, which showed up in some of his self-portraits. Dwarfed, of course, by the one in his portrait of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche.
* BigDamnKiss: His paintings entitled "The Kiss" and a few others.
* TheBlank: A lot of figures in his works, especially background ones, are missing some or all of their facial features. The androgynous central figure of "The Scream" has a face but no hair or ears.
* FanDisservice: "Death of Marat I" shows a good looking naked man (Marat) and woman (Charlotte Corday), only he's lying dead in a bloody tub and she's giving us a creepy thousand yard stare.
* FemmeFatale: Dark and dangerous women abound in his work.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Female models with red hair seem to be a bit of AuthorAppeal for Munch.
* InfantImmortality: Averted in "Inheritance", which shows a woman clutching her dead or dying infant.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: English speakers take note: Unlike the character on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Edvard Munch pronounced it like "moon" with a k at the end.
* MilitaryBrat: Munch was the son of an army doctor.
* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature").
* ShoutOut:
** He painted portraits of two of his heroes: Nietzsche and playwright Creator/AugustStrindberg.
** His painting "Starry Night" is a more subdued take on the subject than that of Creator/VincentVanGogh, who was still largely an unknown.
** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.