Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington's National Gallery, a major Munch show...
...show entitled "Edvard Munch, Symbols and Images," which opened Nov. 11 in the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., is a great event. As Art Historian Robert Rosenblum writes in its catalogue introduction, "Even the most Paris- centered interpretations of the history of postimpressionist art have been obliged to consider the grand and disturbing presence of the strange Norwegian master...
...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...
...gloomily expected to die young, like Seurat or Beardsley. In 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...
...wait until the 22nd round if you were going to throw the match?" Cosmo asks. Victor replies, "Because I was born on the 22nd." Even Victor could not be dumb enough to get himself stomped on for 22 rounds for that reason. Stallone just wanted to show us a lot of bloody fighting...