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Art 266 #3
Munch
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
01/27/2009

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Liljefors: Dovehawk and Black Grouse, 1884, Sweden
 
--based on a natural phenomenon
--influenced by Japanese prints and his stay at Grez
--objects in back are sketchy and main object is clear and detailed
--based on Darwinian ideas of abundance, chance, survival
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Liljefors: Mating of the Capercaillies, 1888, Sweden
 
--photographic
--he carried the canvas to this location several times
--Scandinavian Neoromanticism
--well received when he painted it
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Liljefors: Owl Deep in the Forest, 1895, Sweden
 
--Romantic nationalism bordering on impressionism
--suggests a mood: somber and threatening
--Liljefors identified with the lone owl
--forest looks inhospitable because it's dark and brooding
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Liljefors: Wild Ducks in Horsetail Reeds, 1901, Sweden
 
--ducks flow with the same rhythm as the waves
--lines and color become blurred together
--symbolic
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Zorn: Our Daily Bread, 1886, Sweden
 
--grass and weeds are in the French style
--shows the cycle of life with the girl carrying sticks (youth and vigor) and grandmother cooking
--high horizon and isolation of foreground figure 
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Zorn: The Fair at Mora, 1892, Sweden
 
--naturalist image of life
--the fair was the most important event and drinking was common
--shows a drunken man passed out with wife waiting for him and people passing by without looking twice
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Zorn: Red Sand, 1902, Sweden
 
--he used photography to capture sunlight on skin
--not sexual, but heathful aspect of natural living
--slightly resembles M.J. Yemms
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Zorn: Midsummer Dance, 1897, Sweden
 
--popular summer festival on the longest day of the year
--social and cultural bonds
--mood and lighting is more important than details and clothes
--preserved Swedish tradition with native dress
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Munch: Death in the Sickroom, 1893, Norway
 
--Sophie's death
--everyone experiences the lose in the family in isolation
--she died when they were children, but represented as adults in the painting, which shows that her death still haunts them
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Munch: Evening on Karl Johan Street, 1892, Norway
 
--threatening
--mask-like faces and clone-like clothes show that they are trapped in society
--single man walking against crowd symbolizes Munch and his insanity
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Munch: Evening or Inger on the Beach, 1889, Norway
 
--blue light of evening
--the girl against the tiny people in the boat emphasize her aloneness
--she stares off into the distance, like Munch (and M.J. Yemms)
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Munch: Girls on the Jetty, 1899, Norway
 
--tranquil, lighter subject than Munch's normal paintings
--colors and lines artistic; realistic to a point
--happy, young
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Munch: Melancholy (Laura), 1898-9, Norway
 
--Munch's sister who was institutionalized
--disturbed, not a calm and domestic setting
--subject is uncomfortably isolated and stares blankly
--shapes on tabletop resemble brain formation, symbolizes her mental state
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Munch: Night, 1890, Norway
 
--painted in/of the apartment he holed up in after Munch's father died
--blue tones enhance the somber mood
--contemporary color theory = blue and violet = sadness and grief
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Munch: Self-Portrait with a Wine Bottle, 1906, Norway
 
--his only companion is a lone wine bottle
--no explanation for blood red shape behind his head, added moustache line and eyeline
--shows his alcoholism 
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Munch: Self-Portrait Between Clock and Bed, 1940-1, Norway
 
--stands rigidly but shrunked by old age
--his figure is echoed in painting behind him and nude to the right
--bed suggests rest for weary and death
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Munch: Summer Night's Dream (The Voice), 1893, Norway
 
--woman strikes a commanding presence
--moonlight on water is a phalic symbol
--sexual attraction and repulsion
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Munch: The Dance of Life, 1899-1900, Norway
 
--woman in three stages: virginal woman, mature seductres, and matronly mourning woman
--part of the Love, Life, and Death series
--allegory of life
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Munch: The Scream, 1893, Norway
 
--colors are somewhat naturalistic, but heightened for symbolic purposes
--internal fear takes over figure
--image of isolation and horror
--part of the Love, Life, and Death series
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Munch: The Sick Girl, 1885-6, Norway
 
--from experience of watching his sister die
--very large and forceful in intention to make a statement
--precursor to expressionism 
--not well received at all
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Munch: Vampire, 1893, Norway
 
--hair is highlighted by blood red pigment to suggest evil and destruction
--represents Munch's fear and hatred of women, sucks the lifeblood from Munch
--the woman is shown to emasculate and consume man
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Sohlberg: Summer Night, 1899, Norway
 
--represents nature and culture simultaneously
--romantic
--allure of wide open spaces
--shows intimate and budding sexuality with the abandoned table and slightly open door
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Sohlberg: Winter Night in Rondane, 1914, Norway
 
--the mountain is a subject of the sublime
--mountains are nature's overpowering presence
--the trees in the foreground are in various stages of growth, decay, and death
--icon of Norwegian painting
--one of M.J. Yemms' favorite paintings
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Sohlberg: Flower Meadow in the North, 1905, Norway
 
--the house shows that man lives in harmony with nature
--rigid symmetry
--very detailed daises in foreground and domestic scene and sky in background
--the moon is in the middle of the canvas
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Sohlberg: Night, 1904, Norway
 
--Baroque church is in the exact center of painting just like the church is the center of town life
--flowers on the open grave symbolize death that awaits us all
--color is sophisticated and light emanates from within
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Astrup: Midsummer Night's Fire, undated, Norway
 
--primitive and heathenistic tone
--mountains on 3 sides frame the revelers
--they celebrate their unity with nature by fire
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Astrup: King-Cup Night, undated, Norway
 
--brightly (and sometimes unrealistically) colored
--no shading, universally lit
--looks as if a child could have painted it
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