Edvard Munch in Oslo Exhibition for the 150th Anniversary

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150th anniversary of Edvard Munch in Oslo

By the sesquicentennial anniversary of the main Norwegian artist National Gallery and the Munch Museum in Oslo produced tremendous exposure. The National Gallery show early work until the early twentieth century, the museum - all the rest. For millions of people Munch - a picture of the artist, the exhibition and anniversary are doing everything to attention turned to other, equally great job. Oslo - VALENTIN deacon.

The exhibition, in the truncated version is presented in London and Paris, there are hundreds of stories that make up the life of Munch. The artist has not mastered a perfect technique that enabled him to find the complete formula of despair in "Scream" and a symbol of love in "The Kiss", where individuals lovers form a single closed line. Perhaps too free manner and did not give Munch to find a common language with the state: from the end of XIX century it several times trying to find the money for the building, which was shown to constantly "Frieze of Life" - a scenic loop that includes both "Scream" and "Jealousy" and the no less famous (because it, too, like "Scream" stolen) "Madonna." To carry out his project - and the world would get the very misanthropic, monumental painting in the world. Alas, Munch was a competitor of the sculptor Gustav Vigeland: he was allowed to decorate hundreds of sculptures Frogner Park in Oslo. It turned out not less scary than the "Frieze of Life", in fact, but smooth in shape - and tourists enjoy taking pictures next to the tragically skewed bodies. In Frogner Park realize that Munch is not marginal, as the spokesman of the spirit of the nation: on the background of the huge composition of the inevitability of suffering and death, "Scream" seems quite cheerful.
Celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of Munch (he was born 12 December 1863) pass in the days of another, much more tragic anniversary. June 5, 1901 in Tiflis hotel son of a wealthy coal industrialist Vladislav Emerick shot in the head of his mistress, Dagny Juel, and then tried to kill himself, though without success. Dagny husband, writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, too, was going to go to Tbilisi, but canceled his participation at the last moment. Now it is believed that Emerick said Przybyszewski that wants to end his life, and he persuaded him to send to the light and boring Dagny. Przybyszewski face, reminding the viewer of the Russian portraits Rasputin, emblazoned on the forefront of Munch paintings "Jealousy" (1895) - they were friends with Munch, there are other, less lurid portraits of the writer of the Commonwealth. And with Dagny Munch was a friend, perhaps not platonic, but the evidence intimate relationship, researchers have found. Such a massacre turned around sometimes first sexual revolution of the industrial age, in which Munch, the son of a pastor, plunged with energy, then turning around years of repentance and soul-searching.
By 1901, the artist came devastated. Shot in the hotel for miles and miles away from his native Norway, summed up under two decades of work and research. Beginning of the twentieth century was the time for Munch enhanced introspection and - at first - unsuccessful struggle with alcoholism: the ups and downs of the decadent carried out on the solid fuel. It was in the 1900s, he wrote the most horrible job in his boundless heritage (archives Munch in Oslo has some 6-7 thousand drawings plus thousands of paintings). Macabre scenes in a closed room space, a sealed green wallpaper by neurotic glow reminiscent of paintings by James Ensor and just burgeoning of the "bridge." Munch as if rehearsing again and again Dagny death and the drama that preceded it. Portrait of Dagny in 1893 is probably one of the best in Munch in this genre: beauty with a slight smile shines on a dark blue background. He was never a realist, but here in the heroes and not human remains. In another story of Dagny responds in two variations on the story of a revolutionary assassination of Marat (1906). We like to know who is the killer, but a nude woman standing next to the bed (not the bathroom, as it is) is as a victim who lost her virginity - at least juicy blood spots closer to her and not to Marat.
"Bathers Men" (1907), local researchers is seen as a sign that Munch gradually finds the man's strength - in the broadest sense, but first of all power to resist its own vices and weaknesses. Smiling longhorn written in the angular, Cezanne's style will remind fans of Russian avant-garde of the "Self-portrait and a portrait of Petr Konchalovsky" - one of the most important paintings by Russian Futurism. Militant budetlyaninom Munch, however, does not get: in the center of his attention still remain women (which the founder of Futurism Marinetti wanted to throw off the ship of modernity). He became famous Munch painting "The Sick Child" (1886) depicts an older sister on her deathbed. At the most scandalous picture of the early - "Puberty" (1894-1895) - a teenager draws the viewer a look of horror at the impending puberty. Red-haired Undine in "Vampire" kissing (or biting?) In the neck bent to the ground man. Sexless creature in the "Scream" - a rarity for Munch. Usually sexual roles are underlined, are paraded. It was only in the 1920s in a series of self-portraits with nude models women are not as aggressive and self-sacrificing energy, turning into a neo-classical statues. And in the landscapes in Munch more and sunnier. He died, however, under the roar of cannon fire, in 1944, before their regular demonstrations inhumanity of man and the triumph of death.

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artist Edvard Munch - the most famous and beloved in Norway. This year, the world celebrates its 150th anniversary (years of life Munch: 1863-1944). Preparation of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, for the anniversary event can be considered a reference. All levels of cultural cooperation between society and the individual somehow marked the theme of "The Art of Munch."

Let's start right from the airport, where the arrivals hall hangs an impromptu exhibition of posters of famous paintings by Munch. Once in the city center, you will be attacked immediately flitted here and there munkovskih image of the famous paintings. Reproductions Nakatal on advertising, public transport, newspaper boxes, walls of houses - everywhere. In any hotel you will be given a card, or a magazine Munch 150 showing major addresses associated with the life and work of Munch in Oslo. Addresses of more than a dozen, including the house where the artist lived and worked, as well as churches, factories, museums, cafes, a cemetery where buried Munch. Unexpected discovery of potential multiplier spaces Munch in Oslo makes sense to remember the Chocolate Factory Frey, for which in 1922 made the Munch scenic loop - a monumental frieze on working holiday in the great landscapes of Norway. Another unknown to many tourists address Munch in Oslo - adorns the walls of the hall assemblies, Aul, University of Oslo, gorgeous painting with sun-Oculus and a frieze of "History". The works were created in the years 1909-1911. Another nehrestomatiyny address - a winter studio in Eckel, which Munch bought in 1916 and where he worked until his death. Eckel - a magnificent example of the studio era of early modernism. Saturated with light and airy studio space in common with the luminous way of your own home and studio of Konstantin Melnikov.

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If you come with children, the theme of "The Art of Munch's" you will be able to inspire them to easily and unobtrusively. Next to the Municipal Museum Munch arranged playground festival in honor of the artist, which play music and playing shows. As the younger generation prefers virtual reality tours, for it made a new digital workshop (training program), where the art of Munch's possible to communicate through the iPad. Released a digital audio guide. Launched an interactive game "Munch for all" on the popular school website Salaby.

In the city's museums exhibitions satellites of two parts of the main exhibition of the great Norwegian, which launched at the National Gallery and the Munch Museum. In-Stenersen Museum, named after the famous art dealer and collector Rolf Stenersen Munch time since the end of last week opened exhibition "Edvard Munch in 2013." In accordance with the precepts of Stenersen, who wanted to see the work of Munch in the context of contemporary European modernism, curator Lars Eriksen Tolfa-assembled pieces of music by young artists of Norway, thinking himself in a dialogue with the legacy of master painter of the country.

Created with the participation of institutions of Norway Munch exhibition programs of "contexts" are stated in different cities of the country and the world, from Berlin to New York.

Many museums and bookstores Oslo visitors waiting for a whole library of new books about Munch, from education to the narrow profile, which explains, for example, about the peculiarities of his painting pigments. Army gifts violently thrown on the wallets and credit cards with the lovers of the beautiful diverse reproduced cries of the famous painting "The Scream."

Announced and new films about Munch, one of which is dedicated to dialogue with the music. Chosen a pair of Munch - Grieg. The second film, "Hear" Scream "" - on the theme of passion as the basis of creativity Munch - has created an Indian Bollywood director with backgrounds Dhiray Akolkar (Dheeraj Akolkar). It will be released in the fall.

Central jubilee exhibition of art by Munch at two sites in the main halls of the National Gallery and the Munch Museum, prepared by state and local government institutions. It is unprecedented for Russia, for example. Imagine that for the sake of the exhibition Serov would move on to the store all the time, a permanent exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky and on the Crimean shaft. And all the vacant space given only the great portraitist turn of the century. Can not conceive? Then some. And in Oslo this move naturally crowns the carefully constructed structure of the anniversary program. The exhibition is divided in two museums on the set of pieces that have a chronological logic, but not close to her. Each part is devoted to a certain thematic cluster. These units, according to the curators of the four (two curator of the National Gallery of state, two - from the municipal Munch Museum), as follows: "The visual rhetoric of Edvard Munch," "Self-portraits and self-representation," "Landscapes and places Munch", "Scenic Series" ( including the universal "Frieze of Life"), "Maestro Munch. A look at the distance (bird's eye) "," Munch and the public. " Such a formulation that is free and very logic of the spatial disposition of the material for which are made in the halls of the ideal conditions of exposure, help us to understand and feel all the nuances of the art of the master. It's amazing: the degree of exposure, swung by as much as two large museum, do not get tired. Do not you get tired of the exposure in the first place, of course, because Munch - artist stunningly rich and generous on visual tricks. That's the secret Munch: thematic repertoire of his art is not something that is very diverse. He loved to go back to one and the same motif throughout life. Some only "Scream", "Madonna" and the scenery with moonlight able to form a decent exposure of a museum. And at the same time every nuance of interpretation tormenting Munch extremely interesting topic as part of the real life of the soul.

It can be said, perhaps, that in life and in the work of Edvard Munch was close to the philosophy of anarchism, absolutely not tolerate anyone's pressure, self-mastery, was extremely sensitive to the idea of ​​individualism and emancipation (in all their dramatic , tragic versions, including the stories of the social bottom and existential loneliness). In painting, he also cracked the correct dogmatic tradition for the sake of his desperately copyright synthesis. The origins of his style in different methods and schools: from Realism, Impressionism to Fauvism, metaphysical painting, expressionism (even abstract). The exhibition is obvious that all the methods he studied carefully, and at the same time overcome their power over themselves, reached freedom to access them, and sometimes mutually exclusive from the standpoint of the "correct" language of painting.

In the mass consciousness that anarchism Munch easily fit into the formula painting "The Scream" and several other of his naive and simple-minded "horror". Because these simple-minded and horror trend and make the brand "Munch". Such consumer profanity meanings of art Munch - part of the repressive machinery of the capitalist society. To free people communicate with the art of the artist wanted to break the stereotypes and consumerist dogma in relation to his art, to show Munch as fully and difficult. In his new exhibition in Oslo this is achieved by demonstrating the huge flow of visual material (in the exhibition are involved in almost all the museums of the world where there are works by Munch). At the same time the composition of the material is subject to strict logic, discipline and order. Each section has its own director of communication with the audience, ranging from light, rhythm, scale matching, color of the walls in the hall, ending the presence of unexpected artifacts, such as, for example, a suitcase-workshop Munch - universal object for the movement of the artist and his tools.

That is the order of the manifold protects against voluntarism, dictates one concept. The same rule does not quickly get tired and become numb. A discipline with a priori seems to be undisciplined material should be adopted by our museum workers. After all, judging by the anniversary program Munch aphorism "anarchy - the mother of order" is very effective.

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For millions of people Munch - one artist painting ..

The artist has not mastered a perfect technique that enabled him to find the complete formula of despair in the " Scream "

I was reading the week before the article in Weekend. and could not understand one thing . why , some times referred to "Scream" in different variations, and never ( well, for the readers ) are not recalled , and , in fact, about what " one picture " is about and why. Still, when to work - № 1 in the world ranking - it's weird.