IMG_9990
Edvard Munch
1863 Engelhaug bei Loten - Oslo 1944
The Child and Death, 1899
Oil on canvas
In contrast to Modersohn-Becker's sober portraits of children, this depiction of a girl, wide-eyed, holding her hands to her ears in desperation, expresses maximum intensity. Nevertheless, Munch also confined the scene at the deathbed to a few formal features: the child's figure in vertical, the bed with the corpse horizontal. The distribution of warm and cool shades also indicates where life and death are located. Like many of his pictures of existential states of mind this one has an autobiographical background. Munch lost his mother when he was only five years old - she died of tuberculosis.
IMG_9990
Edvard Munch
1863 Engelhaug bei Loten - Oslo 1944
The Child and Death, 1899
Oil on canvas
In contrast to Modersohn-Becker's sober portraits of children, this depiction of a girl, wide-eyed, holding her hands to her ears in desperation, expresses maximum intensity. Nevertheless, Munch also confined the scene at the deathbed to a few formal features: the child's figure in vertical, the bed with the corpse horizontal. The distribution of warm and cool shades also indicates where life and death are located. Like many of his pictures of existential states of mind this one has an autobiographical background. Munch lost his mother when he was only five years old - she died of tuberculosis.