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

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Сообщение от Munch

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.

Сообщение от Munch

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 ...

Сообщение от Vladimir

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"?