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Edvard Munch

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Under Munch’s Risqué Madonna Is a More Subdued Version, Researchers Find

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 7, 2021October 8, 2021

The National Museum of Norway announced the discovery of underdrawings hidden beneath the surface of their Edvard Munch painting, “Madonna.”

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Hurt by Public Response to “The Scream,” Munch Inscribed Hidden “Madman” Message

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

The curious inscription has puzzled art historians for decades, some of whom speculated it was an act of vandalism.

Posted inArt

The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch

by Michael Glover January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

What do Emin and Munch have in common other than a burning desire to embrace, and be defined by, the miseries of life?

Posted inIn Brief

Please Stop Breathing on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

by Hakim Bishara May 19, 2020

Scientists say “The Scream” is fading due to human breath. With museums around the world closed, the painting is getting some much needed social distance.

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Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing

by Ilene Dube January 10, 2020

From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.

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The Limits of Edvard Munch’s Radicalism

Avatar photo by Erica Eisen July 20, 2019July 20, 2019

What remains unspoken in the British Museum’s Love and Angst is the ways Munch’s dark emotions frequently came to target the women in his life.

Posted inBooks

Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn March 26, 2019June 18, 2020

Knausgaard’s monomaniacal excavation of the self and soul probably finds its closest counterpart in the work of Munch, his countryman.

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7,600 Edvard Munch Drawings Now Available to Discover Online

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 25, 2018

The Munch Museum in Oslo digitized not only its own holdings of Munch’s works on paper, but also those from other museums and private collections.

Posted inArt

Edvard Munch’s Little-Known, Highly Personal Photography

by Julia Friedman January 4, 2018January 4, 2018

Munch’s photographs exhibit an unfinished playfulness with technical manipulation and subject matter that is not as readily seen in his more well-known work.

Posted inArt

Edvard Munch’s World Without Pity

by John Yau December 24, 2017December 22, 2017

Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.

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Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn August 8, 2017June 18, 2020

An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.

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Adobe Releases Digital Brushes Modeled on Edvard Munch’s

by Claire Voon June 29, 2017June 29, 2017

Oslo’s Munch Museum and an “award winning Photoshop brush maker” teamed up to create a set of digital brushes based on seven real ones that Munch used.

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