EDVARD MUNCH. THE MODERN EYE
Edvard Munch is acclaimed for his vivid Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. Prepared together with the Centre Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the exhibition in the SCHIRN offers a novel view of his work. It is for the first time that Munch's interest in modern techniques of creating pictures such as photography and film and modern stage designs is the focus of attention. His works reveal to what degree he adopted specifically photographic or filmic forms of composition and narration, poses, or even effects in his painting.
Supplementing the presentation of about sixty paintings and twenty works on paper, one chapter of the show is dedicated to Munch's own attempts in the field of photography and film. A further dimension of the exhibition reveals how the artist dealt with one and the same subject in drawing, photography, painting, graphic art, and sculpture. The artist's frequent return to already rendered motifs provides a crucial key to the understanding of Munch's work.
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"Edvard Munch. Der moderne Blick" foregrounds the little researched late works of the artist, proving that Edvard Munch (1863--1944) was as much as an artist of the 20th century as the 19th. The focus is on the artist's interest in the modern representational techniques of his time, such as photography and film. His works reveal the extent to which he adopted specifically photographic or filmic forms of composition and narration, poses, or even effects, in his paintings. The volume furthermore demonstrates how Munch worked on one and the same subject in different media of painting, drawing, graphic arts, photography, and even sculpture. His frequent return to previously rendered motifs is a crucial key to the understanding of Munch's work.