Edvard Munch

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Edvard Munch who was born 1863 in Löten, Norway, the second child of five children. In 1864, Edvard moved to the city of Oso, with his other four siblings and mother. Where his mother died four years later after from tuberculosis and his sister died from the same thing in 1877 at the age of fifteen. His father Christian became emotional over the time when he starts to suffer from an agitated depression. Then more familial tragedies started to happen, one his sister spent most of her life in an institutionalized for mental illness; then his brother Peter died at the age of thirty from pneumonia. He suffered a lot from a child. Later in 1879, he attended a technical college for engineering for a year, then realize that art was his passion. In 1881, he enrolled at Royal School of Art of Design. Then he …show more content…
Edvard Munch, had plenty of great art work, which all of them had a specific meaning to itself. Me personal my favorite would how to be the scream, even though I love the "Workers Returning Home" painting one which they look to be very tired, and just getting off work also it like an army coming towards you. Why I like "The Scream" is because it gives you that cold-zee feeling. I can have this painting on my wall, just to look at it because it gives you all different types of vibes. Edvard made a painting into which a viewer can extend any sort of disappointment, outrage, dread, ghastliness, or existential uneasiness he wishes. My interpretation on it will be there is one thing theatrical regarding the set-up, the beach is that the pit and the bridge is that the people gather up together; and the play itself is insignificant because it like somebody from the audience who steals the show, by running from the spectacle being given. The sky becomes the curtain that hangs from higher than and threatens to hide and consume the scene on the stage (the lake), that by currently could also be viewed solely as a farce. I hope you can understand that from my point of

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