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Edvard Munch Archetypes

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Autore/i	Paloma Alarcó, Patricia Berman, Jon-ove Steihaug
Editore	Museo Thyssen Bornemisza	Luogo	Madrid
Anno	2016	Pagine	230
Dimensioni	23x24 (cm)	Illustrazioni	ill. colori n.t. - colour ills.
Legatura	cart. edit. sovracc. ill. - hardcover with dust jacket	Conservazione	Nuovo - New
Lingua	Inglese - English text	Peso	1800 (gr)
ISBN	8415113730	EAN-13	9788415113737

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Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, From 6 October 2015 to 17 January 2016.

Texts by Paloma Alarcó, Chief Curator of Modern Painting at Museo Thyssen-Bornenisza; Patricia G. Berman, Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College Chair; and Jon-Ove Steihaug, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Munch Museum in Oslo.
Chronology by Clara Marcellán.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Edvard Munch: Archetypes bringing together a selection of eighty works that examined the painter’s long and prolific career and revealed his ability to synthesize the obsessions of modern humanity. The art of Edvard Munch (1863–1944) – today considered one of the forefathers of modern art, along with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin – developed from a distinctive blend of tradition and experimentation. From the beginnings of his career, the Norwegian artist created a particular mythology for modern times that was in close step with the art, literature and thought of his contemporaries. His personal aesthetic language, which evolved from Symbolism to Expressionism, deployed various artistic strategies to construct a pictorial narrative of the most universal of subjects, life, love and death. The interplay of flat and sinuous forms, the symbolic use of color, the expressive deformation of the body and the use of experimental textures and techniques in printing were basic elements of his artistic vocabulary.

The book reviews a wide spectrum of emotional archetypes through which Munch reveals various existential obsessions such as love, desire, jealousy, angst and death, and states of mind including melancholy, passion and submission. The catalogue is structured around these archetypes, laid bare in the representation of the human figure in various settings: the seaside, the sickroom, the “green room,” the woods, the night and the artist’s studio. It combines early works with late versions and paintings with graphic works so as to underscore the thematic and existential circularity of Munch’s oeuvre.