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Composition III by Ragnhild Keyser, 1926
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
According to Wikipedia she was one of a small wave of Norwegian women who moved to Paris in the twenties to study with Léger, and this comes from right in the middle of that stretch. Apparently she drifted back to more ordinary landscapes later on.
Erisava: Be honest — could I have made this at home with a ruler?
Amphitrite, the wave and the sea birds by Jørleif Uthaug, 1985
You'd come across this one in Porsgrunn, Norway — apparently one of the sculptor's best-known pieces, a steel sea goddess with a couple of birds pulling her along.
Erisava: The flight looks more real than Superwoman.
Vampire by Edvard Munch, 1893
Munch Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
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.
Kiss by the Window by Edvard Munch, 1892
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design · wikidata.org
Public domain
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.