Friday, April 07, 2006

Edvard Munch at the Met with Sarah

Sarah came in for a few days and we went to see the Edvard Munch show at the Met. I really loved it. Other than the Scream and the Madonna, I wasn't familiar with his other works. I just recently discovered Vampire which is one of my favorite paintings. He was one of the first artist to focus on depicting the F'd up sides of human behavior. Envy, pain, fear, despair, futilty. Red headed beautiful women were always portrayed in a threatening power position. I was familiar with his loose expressionist style but he had some very tightly rendered paintings too. Although with his painting Galloping Horse, I think I found the worst portrait ever painted by a "so called" master.

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