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    Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist born in 1863 who was influenced by traumatic childhood experiences including the death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis. He began his career as a naturalist painter but was influenced by impressionism and symbolism during travels to Paris in the 1880s. Munch is known for his expressionist and symbolist paintings depicting human emotions and experiences with themes of life, love, fear and death. His most famous work is The Scream from 1893, which expresses his outlook on humanity as fearful and uncertain.

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    Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist born in 1863 who was influenced by traumatic childhood experiences including the death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis. He began his career as a naturalist painter but was influenced by impressionism and symbolism during travels to Paris in the 1880s. Munch is known for his expressionist and symbolist paintings depicting human emotions and experiences with themes of life, love, fear and death. His most famous work is The Scream from 1893, which expresses his outlook on humanity as fearful and uncertain.

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    Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist born in 1863 who was influenced by traumatic childhood experiences including the death of his mother and sister from tuberculosis. He began his career as a naturalist painter but was influenced by impressionism and symbolism during travels to Paris in the 1880s. Munch is known for his expressionist and symbolist paintings depicting human emotions and experiences with themes of life, love, fear and death. His most famous work is The Scream from 1893, which expresses his outlook on humanity as fearful and uncertain.

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    EDVARD MUNCH

    By Adam Lunow
    Basic Information
     Born: 1863 in Loton, Norway.
     Died: 1944 in Oslo, Norway.
     Mother died of Tuberculosis when he was 5.
     8 years later, sister died of Tuberculosis as well.
     His father was strong Puritan and often enforced his
    strict religious discipline on Edvard.
     These traumatic childhood
    experiences had a profound effect
    on his outlook on life, which in turn
    affected his painting style.
    Self Portraits
    Artistic Career
     Began at the School of Art in Oslo under naturalist
    painter Christian Krohg.
     Munch started off as a realist/naturalist.
     Toured Paris in 1885
     Influenced by works of impressionists/symbolists like
    Rembrandt, Seurat, Gaughin, Van Gogh, etc.
     Turned into an expressionist/symbolist.
     Lived mainly in Berlin, Paris, and Oslow,
    continuing to paint expressionist and
    symbolist paintings until his death.

     The Sick Child (1885)


     Beginning of Munch’s break with Realism.
    Influences, Styles, Mediums
     Influenced mainly by Christian Krohg and Frits
    Thaulow.
     No students, didn’t want to be called a master.
     Major influence on the Expressionist movement.
     Medium: oil painting, lithograph, etcher, and wood
    engraving, but mostly painting.
     Themes: life, love, fear, jealousy, drinking, sex,
    sickness, death, and melancholia – basic human
    experiences and emotions.
     Painted mostly people.
     Always an emotionless or negative mood in his
    paintings. The people are never smiling.
     The Scream (1893)
    Munch’s most famous painting, a Mona Lisa of modern
    art. It expresses how he feels about life and his outlook
    on humanity, fearful and uncertain.
     Evening on Karl Johan Street (1889)
     Death in the Sick Room (1895)
     The Dance of Life (1899-1900)
    Expresses the beauty, innocence, relationship, love, and
    eventual death that is all experienced throughout life.
     Ashes (1894)
    Bibliography
     EdvardMunch.info, 2006
    http://www.edvardmunch.info/edvard-munch/biography.asp

     Edvard Munch: Beyond the Scream, Smithsonian Institute, 2006


    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/munch.html

     Edvard Munch, Style and Art


    http://www.styleandart.com/artists/edvard-munch/

     A Being Under Influences, Lotus, 2010


    http://users.skynet.be/lotus/art/munch-en.htm

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