In painting, Symbolism represents a synthesis of form and feeling, of reality and the artist's inner subjectivity. Along with Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch is considered as the most …

Munch's nomadic and self-imposed exile's life in Europe, from his mid-twenties to mid-forties - especially in the cosmopolitan, creatively fertile centers of Paris and Berlin - was undoubtedly …

Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own …

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Munch returned to this deeply traumatic event again and again in his art, over six completed oil paintings and many studies in various media, over a period of more than 40 years.

Anxiety, 1894 by Edvard Munch This painting draws on two earlier departures: the anxious humanity moving forward as if driven by ominous elemental forces, as first conceived in …

Like Kandinsky, Munch is here both romantic and avant-garde, and the sun, indeed, is God. Illuminated by the sunrays are the water of the ocean, the bare rocks of a Northern landscape, …

Red Virginia Creeper, 1898-1900 by Edvard Munch By the end of the century some paintings had begun to show signs of a disintegration of Munch's synthetist art nouveau style.

Like Starry Night by Van Gogh, Munch's Starry Night, 1893 also endows his nocturnal landscapes with animistic qualities. Sky, water, and earth, divided yet rejoined in a larger unity, are the …

They glide through the motion like somnambulists, trapped by their fate. Munch's feet are enveloped by the coils of Tulla's red gown, while its predatory contour almost completely …