History Creator / EdvardMunch

!!Works by Edvard Munch with their own pages on Tv Tropes:

* PopCulturalOsmosis: His only painting that has reached pop culture fame is "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}", which has been parodied and referenced so often that it practically has become a StockParody. The sad thing is that the general audience doesn't always know who painted it and isn't very familiar with Munch's other works.

It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled "Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}"—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.

* CueTheSun: Munch was assigned to decorate the [[http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html grand hall of the Oslo University]] in 1913, and made his largest pictures for the walls. The most prominent one is ''the Sun'', probably just as archetypical as the Scream, the Madonna and the Vampire.

** To top this, the canvas of TheScream has the following words written over the skyline: ''This could only have been painted by a loony''.

It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled "The Scream"—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.

* PopCulturalOsmosis: His only painting that has reached pop culture fame is "The Scream", which has been parodied and referenced so often that it practically has become a StockParody. The sad thing is that the general audience doesn't always know who painted it and isn't very familiar with Munch's other works.

** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose, by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.

* CrapsackWorld: Munch suffered from neurosis, fear and a dominant religious zealot father. Many of his works are about negative emotions and events like death, sexual anxiety, sickness, depression, melancholy, separation, jealousy, sadness,...
** Munch stated that this was a case of ItRunsInTheFamily. His relatives had a choice, he claimed, between dying from consumption at an early age, or going into gradual SanitySlippage.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in "Inheritance", which shows a woman clutching her dead or dying infant.

* FanDisservice: "Death of Marat I" shows a good looking naked man (Marat) and woman (Charlotte Corday), only he's lying dead in a bloody tub and she's giving us a creepy thousand yard stare.

* BigDamnKiss: His paintings entitled "The Kiss" and a few others.

'''Edvard Munch''' (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.

* AmbiguousSituation[=/=]DoubleMeaningTitle: The painting "Vampire" shows a man with his head buried in a woman's torso under her cascading hair. The title could conceivably refer to either one of them.

'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and modern art in general.

* CreatorBreakdown: Munch had to be interred in a mental ward for a while, after suffering from severe paranoid fits and hallucinations. His fall out with the "Bohemians" led by painter Christian Krogh was the apparent background for this. But even Krogh would never think of chasing Munch down with a loaded gun (although Munch had vivid hallucinations of this).

'''Edvard Munch''' (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and modern art in general.

It is sometimes debated whether Munch was as angsty and troubled as he let on, or whether he was an expert self-dramatizer. Available evidence suggests that both things are true. In either case, since his best-known work is entitled “The Scream”—and for good reason!—we can regard this as an essential component of both his personality and his work.

* CueTheSun: Munch was assigned to decorate the [[http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/index.html grand hall of the Oslo University]] in 1913, and made his largest pictures for the walls. The most prominent one is ''the Sun'', probably just as archetypical as the Scream, the Madonna and the Vampire. H

[[caption-width-right:350:Munch's ''Self Portrait in Hell'']]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Munch's art was inspired by his personal depressions and trauma's, for instance the death of his older sister Sophie at age 15 from tuberculosis.

* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it> "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature.")

* BadassMustache: He cultivated one at times, which showed up in some of his self-portraits. Dwarfed, of course, by the one in his portrait of Creator/FriedrichNietzsche.

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: English speakers take note: Unlike the character on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' and ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', Edvard Munch pronounced it like "moon" with a k at the end.
* MilitaryBrat: Munch was the son of an army doctor.

* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen,'' (who was suffering from severe depression at the time) and said he was happy the two of them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."

[[caption-width-right:350:Munch's ''Self Portrait in Hell''. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]]]]

* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen,'' and said he was happy the two of them, lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."

* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he met the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen'', and said he was happy the two of them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."
* TheScream: His work of that name is the page image, after all. He actually called it "Der Schrei der Natur" ("The Scream of Nature").
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: His paintings and drawings often use shadows and rings of color to emphasize an aura of fear and anxiety.
* ShoutOut:

** His painting "Starry Night" is a more subdued take on the subject than that of Creator/VincentVanGogh, who was still largely an unknown.
** His "Kiss" paintings revisit a theme and pose by Italian painter Francesco Hayez. Gustav Klimt's version is more famous, but he actually came after Munch.
* SkullForAHead: The figure on "The Scream" has a pale head that is very skull-like.

* ReclusiveArtist: As he got older, this became more and more prominent. The last years of his life, he hardly walked outside his house. At some point (1910), he med the wife of fellow artist ''Theodor Kittelsen'', and said he was happy the two of them lived within walking distance, "But he must never visit me..."

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian artist (painter, printmaker, sometime photographer…) working in the 19th and 20th centuries. He broke with convention in a number of ways, in general turning his back on verisimilitude in his figurative art in favor of showing how things looked and felt to him. In this he would be a great influence on the Expressionist art before, during and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and modern art in general.

** He painted portraits of two of his heroes: Nietzsche and playwright Creator/AugustStrindberg.