A new look at Munch Automatic translate

The Tate Gallery in London presents a new glimpse at the work of Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. The groundbreaking Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye exhibition offers the viewer a dialogue between the artist’s paintings and drawings made in the first half of the twentieth century and his role in the development of modern media, including photography and film.

Few other contemporary artists are as famous and not as understood as Munch. Often he is represented, first of all, as an artist of the 19th century, a symbolist and ancestor of expressionism. Today’s exhibition is designed to show that he was keenly interested in the problems of the 20th century that occupied his contemporaries. Organized in close collaboration with the Pompidou Center and the Munch Museum in Oslo, the exposition presents more than sixty carefully selected paintings, fifty photographs, as well as his lesser-known cinematographic works. They show Munch’s interest in current events, and the fact that often the plots of his paintings were inspired by scenes that he watched on the street, or saw in the media.

Without limiting himself to working in the studio, Munk often painted on the street, capturing scenes of everyday life. At the exhibition, in separate groups are collected works repeating the same motive, for example, a sick child (works from 1907 to 1925), a girl on a bridge (from 1902 to 1907). Thus, the artist worked on these topics for himself for a rather long time.

Like many artists of his time, Munch was fond of photography, mainly his experiments in this area were focused on himself. Thanks to this, we can see many self-portraits of the master. Munch also actively experimented with illusions in the cinema, and just these works, almost unknown to the viewer, are presented at an exhibition in London.

The exhibition opened June 28 at Tate Modern on Bankside and runs until October 14. Admission is 14 pounds.

Anna Sidorova