Word: munch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master images of 20th century art and literature was the City: the ville tentaculaire, condenser of populations and their unease, republic of anxiety, seedbed of desire. From Edvard Munch's top-hatted masks parading the streets of Oslo to Francis Bacon's pinstriped executives howling like caged baboons, the City secreted images of alienation. To the eye of modernist poetry it got more spectral as one came closer to it, as the capitals of Christendom did for T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, almost 60 years...
...more older people now, especially little old Jewish ladies. But I like a varied audience-little old ladies, homosexuals, weirdos." What he got, along with the college crowd, were little old ladies in amber slacks and matching sweaters, younger mothers cradling sleeping infants, sipping coffee and munching Danish, missing not so much as a munch over occasional lines ("Murder me in the gutter with orgasms!") of Ginsbergian raunch...
...Some of Munch's paintings - notably The Scream, 1893, with its genderless homunculus squalling in loneliness on a bridge against the thick ropy sky of evening-are among the most reproduced images in early modern art. Yet Munch's major paintings are not well known here in the original because most of his best work stayed in Norway, distributed among several museums. The National Gallery's show, which will go to no other museum, has 245 paintings, prints and drawings on loan from Norwegian collections; it is the most complete Munch exhibition ever held...
...Munch was born in Norway...
...fact he lived on to a great age, until 1944; but the main themes of his work were all set forth well before World War I, and it is on the period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere...