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Landscape from Kragerø by Edvard Munch, 1912
This came from a string of coastal landscapes painted while recovering from a breakdown — a much quieter stretch than the work he's known for.
Erisava: This is way too calm for who I think painted it.
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Ashes by Edvard Munch, 1895
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Part of a long series he kept adding to and rehanging for years — love, jealousy, illness, death, all of it as one run. Supposedly this one went under a second title along the lines of 'After the Fall', which tells you roughly where in that story we've arrived.
Erisava: The woods behind her are nearly black. That white dress is almost the only thing lit.
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Vampire by Edvard Munch, 1893
The name everyone calls this by wasn't his — someone else stuck it on later, and he'd used a much gentler title himself. He painted the same two people over and over, six goes at it in about two years, from what I can find.
Erisava: Everything's murky except that hair. It's the only thing with any colour left.
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The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893
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This was, apparently, based on a real walk — he wrote later about feeling something like a scream pass through nature, and said the sky here is close to how he actually remembered the color that evening.
Roya: Looks creepy!
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Kiss by the Window by Edvard Munch, 1892
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One out of a huge cycle he kept adding to for decades — love, jealousy, death — built to hang together as a set rather than be met one at a time. He came back to two people kissing over and over, in paint and in prints, and from what I can find the two of them get harder to tell apart with every version.
Erisava: This is basically all one blue, and I'd still hang it in my house.
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The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design · wikidata.org
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This was, apparently, based on a real walk — he wrote later about feeling something like a scream pass through nature, and said the sky here is close to how he actually remembered the color that evening.
Erisava: Is that figure screaming, or just trying to block out something louder?
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Anxiety by Edvard Munch, 1894
Apparently this reworks the same crowd and shoreline from a painting he'd made the year before, and he returned to these same faces again in prints a couple years later. It was one piece in a much bigger series he kept adding to for decades, loosely tracking stages of a life.
Erisava: What's going on with that sky that makes everyone underneath it look ill?
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Despair by Edvard Munch, 1894
From what I can find, this comes from the same walk near Oslo that later produced The Scream.
Erisava: Is that sky doing more of the panicking than his face is?
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Death in the Sickroom by Edvard Munch, 1893
The death in it happened when he was a boy — his sister — but he didn't paint it until decades later, and from what I can find that's why the family in the room are all the age they were when he picked up the brush, not the age they were at the time.
Erisava: What is that green wall doing? It's more unsettling than anyone's face in here.