Everyone knows Edvard Munch's painting The Scream but Munch have made so much more than that.
Internationally, Edvard Munch is the most famous Scandinavian painter ever, and one can rightly call Munch for Scandinavia Vincent van Gogh. Munch has also made direct interpretations of van Gogh's paintings, which can be seen in the painting Starry Night. However, Munch's paintings different from van Gogh's as Munch primarily was concerned with Expressionism, and van Gogh was Impressionists.
The different content of Munch's paintings often appear more melancholy and provocative than van Gogh. Especially the paintings that contain people where you can clearly sense a depressed mood in several of Munch’s paintings.
Edvard Munch was among others subjects very interested in painting women, often portrayed as a kind of femme fatale or man-eater if you will; A seductive, sensual and alluring creature who at the same time is dangerous and hard to rely on. In addition to the darker and more pessimistic paintings, you can easily find some more positive light beams in Munch’s catalog. No matter what you can sense a very high artistic quality in Edvard Munch's paintings, which despite a relatively simplistic expression goes right into the heart, and where it hurts, but at the same time is shockingly beautiful.
Edvard Munch was troubled by strong psychological problems like anxiety and depression, and saw both his sister and mother leave the world prematurely. Munch suffered through much of his life, both physically and mentally. Luckily Munch live to he was 80 years old when he in 1944 went to sleep in his house at Ekely outside Oslo. In SCHOW KARLSEN ART we salute this equilibristic artist with rich, detailed reproduction of high quality. Are you looking for the painting, which can be more than just being decorative, Edvard Munch an obvious choice.
