Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth
Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch is commonly thought of as a tortured artist, whose personality mirrored his iconic work The Scream. This new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is based on recent research that examined Munch's diaries and letters in conjunction with his artwork, to reveal an artist very much in charge of his image, who carefully constructed his own myth. The web exhibition features 30 works by Munch and other artists, selected from over 150 on display at the Art Institute, that can be viewed arranged in themes. "Constructing a Persona" includes two self-portraits: Self-Portrait in Moonlight, a stylized woodcut from 1904, and Self-Portrait with Cigarette, a painting that Munch made in 1895. The "Isolation and Influence" theme presents Munch's work along with that of his contemporaries; Munch's Summer Night: Inger on the Beach in relation to Monet's On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, which Munch may have seen at art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel’s gallery in 1889.
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