2.8.09

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND TO PRESENT 'EDVARD MUNCH: PRINTS'


AN EXHIBITION FROM THE MUNCH MUSEUM IN OSLO WILL PRESENT 40 OF THE FINEST PRINTS BY NORWAY'S GREATEST ARTIST, EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944), WILL GO ON DISPLAY AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND FROM 19.SEPTEMBER UNTIL 6.DECEMBER.2009, THE WORKS HAVE BEEN SPECIALLY CHOSEN TO ILLUSTRATE HIS DEVELOPMENT AS A GRAPHIC ARTIST. "THANKS TO THE EXTRAORDINARY, COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE MUNCH MUSEUM, WHICH IS THE RESULT OF HIS LEGACY TO THE CITY OF OSLO, THIS WILL BE THE MOST EXTENSIVE EXHIBITION OF MUNCH'S GRAPHIC WORKS TO GO ON DISPLAY IN IRELAND", SAYS RAYMOND KEAVENEY, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY. "WE ARE DELIGHTED TO BE ABLE TO SHOW THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF HIS PRINTS SPANNING 50 YEARS WHICH ILLUSTRATE BOTH THE DEPTH OF HIS SKILL AS A PRINT-MAKER AND HIS KEEN INTERPRETATION AN ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN CHARACTER."
EDVARD MUNCH'S EARLIEST WORKS WERE IMPRESSIONIST IN STYLE, BUT HE ACHIEVED AN ARTISTIC BREAKTHROUGH, AND NOTORIETY, WITH HIS PAINTING 'THE SICK CHILD' (1886). THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MANY WORKS THAT EXPLORE HUMAN, PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING, REFLECTING HIS OWN PAINFUL CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AS WELL AS ENCAPSULATING IDEAS ABOUT LOVE PROMOTED BY BOHEMIAN FRIENDS IN OSLO. MUNCH WAS AN ARTIST WHO CONTINUALLY PONDERED, REVISED AND REPEATED HIS IMAGES, AND THE PRINTS ARE FREQUENTLY THE FINEST AND MOST POWERFUL OF HIS SUBJECTS. HIS LARGE WOODCUTS, PRINTED IN COLOUR USING AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE, WERE AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY. THE EXHIBITION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOG, 'EDVARD MUNCH: PRINTS' BY PETER BLACK AND MAGNE BRUTEIG.
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