Munch's Laboratory

Beschrijving

Tent. Oslo, Munch Museum, 04-09-2011, 08-01-2012. - Edvard Munch installed his experimental, expressionist, monumental paintings in the University of Oslo's Aula building, after a long and rocky road to their completion in 1916. Other artists of Munch's generation also met the challenge of creating images understandable to a wider audience - Gustav Klimt, Puvis de Chavannes, and Max Klinger - who chose to work for institutions, such as universities, museums, libraries as well. With time, one has forgotten the boldness with which Munch made his pictures and how hard he worked to get them exhibited at all. Munch's Laboratory presents recent research and provides the reader with thorough strategies for understanding Munch's radical art