Edvard Munch - founder of German Expressionism (the eve of the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum)

[LCR]

Thank you very much for Munch Munch!

Wonderful message about a remarkable artist. I have nothing to add - except to say that to me embodies Munch Scandinavia, together with the other genius - Hamsun, whom it seems to me that much in common - to read "love slaves" or "famine" or "Pan", they can serve as an illustration (not in the low-lying sense of "explanation", while the highest - the similarity of the spirit) to each other.

I had previously I am glad that I could, came to Moscow to see this exhibition.

[Vladimir]

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Thank you very much for Munch Munch!

C pleasure to join bagodarnostyam. One of the most significant artists of the seers. From nezasmotrennyh "Ash" is especially good. Munch, and your favorite work?
LCR have an association with Hamsun, and I "Dead Christ in the coffin niche" of Hans Holbein, too complicated, controversial and emotionally strongest work.

[Мунк]

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LCR have an association with Hamsun, and I "Dead Christ in the coffin niche" of Hans Holbein, too complicated, controversial and emotionally strongest work.

Cool that you remember Hans Holbein. In general, the German artistic tradition (Matthias Grunewald) differs expressive artistic vision, based on the tragic worldview, characteristic for the artists of the Northern type. Van Gogh, Munch, Nolde - have continued this tradition in the 20 century.

[Мунк]

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as your favorite job?

In his simvolistkom period than I like "Ashes" (love how the fire burns everything, so that in the end of it remains only a handful of ashes) is "Two. Alone," "Man and Woman."

[Мунк]

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From nezasmotrennyh "Ash" is especially good.

I quote a comment of the German scholar Paul E. Munck Hodina on the painting "Ashes": "We see the desperation and emptiness that engulfed the man and woman after the fait accompli of proximity, as if nature had betrayed them by promising happiness and implementation, and in fact, devastated the souls , destroyed them as individuals, as soon as they obeyed the biological effect, pushing them to each other. The picture seemed to represent "Metaphysics of Sexual Love" Schopenhauer: "A man and a woman - these are elements that come into contact, but never joined. Women - a riddle for the man, the Sphinx, which he had to decipher all the time."
Generally works by Munch in addition to his own concepts was consonant with the ideas of the era of decline ", the philosophical guru of which were Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard (the founder of existentialism). If interested in any images and motifs, I probably be able to answer, though, tomorrow.

[fross]

Thank you for the announcement of the exhibition - comforted. I just read about the exhibition Kirchner in New York's Museum of Modern Art, and sorry that I could not see. "The exhibition - seven of German Expressionist paintings from the series" Berlin Street, "which he had written in 1913-1915, respectively, and six dozen drawings, sketches and photographs depicting the streets of Berlin and a sense of dynamics, color intensity and severity of the lines. " - B
I join the admirers of Munch and add portrait Eva Mudocci, unfortunately not found Salome.

[Мунк]

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for me, Munk represents Scandinavia, together with the other genius - Hamsun, whom it seems to me that much in common - to read "love slaves" or "famine" or "Pan", they may serve to illustrate (not in the low-lying sense of "explanation", while the highest - the similarity of the spirit) to each other.
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How you Munch associate with Scandinavian literature! The fact is that in the late 19 th century painting Scandinavia did not differ avant-garde, but in literature it was at the forefront in Northern Europe. True, the works of Knut Hamsun (especially "Hunger") have been well known Munch. Hamsun was a representative of naturalism - the flow in the Western literature of the late 19 th century, for it is treated early Strindberg and Ibsen. And the art of Munch's 90 critics called "psychic naturalism. In the period from 1892 to 1895 in Berlin there was an avant-garde community of Scandinavian and German writers - a circle of "The Black Paros, the ideological leader of which was Strindberg, and a handful of powerful - he Przybyszewski, Munch, Ola Hannson. During this period, Munch and created his most famous things. Because of its proximity to the literary avant-garde Berlin Munch's much criticized for "literariness." With Strindberg Munch close friends, and in the work they fed off each other. In 1896, on the occasion of the exhibition Munch Strindberg in Paris, wrote a critical article in which he gave his (sexist) treatment of paintings, in a sense distort the designs of the Munch, but he did not object. You are well noticed that his paintings - not an illustration of someone's philosophical views - at the Munk had his own concept of all the above topics (the metaphysics of love, the concept of a woman, the philosophy of death), they built on their own experience. However, it coincided largely with the decadent views on these issues.

[LCR]

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How you associate with Scandinavian literature Munch! The fact is that in the late 19 th century painting Scandinavia did not differ avant-garde, but in literature it was at the forefront in Northern Europe. True, the works of Knut Hamsun (especially "Hunger") have been well known Munch. Hamsun was a representative of naturalism - the flow in the Western literature of the late 19 th century, for it is treated early Strindberg and Ibsen. And the art of Munch's 90 critics called "psychic naturalism".

I do not understand on what grounds Munch and Hamsun recorded in the naturalists. Ibsen and Strindberg - with them all the easier, more understandable and more boring. And these two (perhaps more Lagerlöf) to naturalism, in my opinion, had nothing to do, if we need to somehow christen their creativity, I would say that it - mythmaking.

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With Strindberg Munch close friends, and in the work they fed off each other. In 1896, on the occasion of the exhibition Munch Strindberg in Paris, wrote a critical article in which he gave his (sexist) treatment of paintings, in a sense distort the designs of the Munch, but he did not object.

Well, Munch himself, I remember, spoke about our wonderful half brother - oh-oh-oh, but I still love him
I remember reading his magazine, or some note - he has a very interesting, very unusual habits of thought ...

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and I "Dead Christ in the coffin niche" of Hans Holbein, too complicated, controversial and emotionally strongest work.

Your Holbein - is already out of Dostoevsky, no? I've just can not remember where he wrote about it (without naming the author), I think, in the "Idiot"?

[Vladimir]

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Your Holbein - is already out of Dostoevsky, no? I've just can not remember where he wrote about it (without naming the author), I think, in the "Idiot"?

The same. In "Idiot. Fine house Parfyon Rogozhin. Comparable to force the focus of Bach in "Solaris" by Tarkovsky.

[Meister]

saw Munch Museum in Norway, an indelible impression ... No doubt, one of the greatest artists of all time, hitting me most that created sovereshnno avant-garde things, having no connection with the "outside" world of art. A much about expressiveness and brilliance of his paintings generally silent. his creativity, he foresaw many hud.napravleny beginning of the twentieth century, and I think even contributed to their development ...