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The works of the famous Norwegian artist are now included in the list of the most expensive in the world - in 2012. painting "Scream" was sold for 119.9 million dollars. The reason for the continuing interest in creativity expressionist Edvard Munch - not only in a high level of skill, but also in the charge of incredible emotions that his paintings carry. In all works, leitmotifs are repeated, forcing psychoanalysts to draw conclusions about the fears and passions that haunt the author all his life.
Edvard Munch had to endure many upheavals that shaped his character. At the age of five, he lost his mother, after which he closed in on himself and did not speak for almost a year. A few years later, his sister died of tuberculosis. In painting, he finds comfort and an outlet for himself.
The very first exhibition of Munch's works in Norway brought him scandalous fame. He was called an "over-the-top anarchist", and the press wrote: "These pictures are nothing more than just a daub." Nevertheless, the artist's popularity grew both at home and abroad.
Munch's friend, the writer Strindberg, often portrayed the confrontation of the sexes, portraying women as "insatiable beasts" and "prisoners of vice." After a series of unsuccessful romances, Munch shares the opinion of a friend. A stormy romance with Tulla Larsen did not lead to marriage, and the girl tried to blackmail the artist, threatening him with a pistol. She accidentally pulled the trigger and injured his arm, as a result had to amputate his finger. The artist fell into a prolonged depression and began to drink. Frequent nervous breakdowns and alcohol abuse led Munch to spend several months in a mental hospital.
The themes of passion and anxiety, fear and despair are repeated in most of Munch's works. He often depicts women torturing men, as in the painting "Vampire": the red hair of a vampire seems to entangle and absorb a man. Psychoanalysts claim that the artist was afraid of sex and saw a mortal danger in passion. In the painting "Ashes," the man is depressed and depressed, he sits, covering his face with his hands, and the woman's hair, like long tentacles, reaches out to him: “This is how longing and despair take possession of the human soul, pulling it into their nets,” comments Munch.
An ambivalent attitude towards a woman - as a desirable and dangerous creature - can be seen in many of Munch's works. The painting "The Kiss", contrary to the theme, makes a depressing impression. One of the artist's friends wrote: “These are two figures whose faces merge. And this place resembles a gigantic ugly ear, deafened by the pressure of pulsating blood."
The apotheosis of anxieties and fears that tormented Munch all his life is his most famous painting, The Scream. The artist created about 50 versions of it after he heard the scream of a suicide throwing himself from the bridge. The color scheme conveys the author's feelings so accurately that it seems that the colors themselves begin to scream. This painting is constantly appealed to in modern painting and the most unexpected forms of art: for example, Edvard Munch and his "Scream" in advertising
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