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Article: The compulsive subjectivity of Edvard Munch.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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OF all paintings, the paintings of the nineteenth century Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, are the antitheses of accepted Anglo-Saxon artistic taste. Not for us the revelation of tormented relationships set down for all to see, the hysteria of sorrow made plain. It is all too explicit, too autobiographical. Yet Munch is by far Norway's most famous painter. It always amazed me that Francis Bacon, his equal in depicting human anguish, and in my opinion the greatest British painter this century, found fame in this country, while Munch is largely unknown.
Munch's paintings, now being shown in an exhibition at the National Gallery in London, were a passionate denial of ...