The wonderful works of Evard Munch

 So, my first post I have decided to dedicate to wonderful works of Edvard Munch. If you have had such the pleasure of exhibiting subjects such as: The scream, The sick child, Madonna and Exaggeration in the service of truth, you properly would have noticed the reoccurring themes of sexual liberation, chronic illness, religion and human mortality, all of which are questionable topics for an eighteenth century audience.

Madonna (1894-95)

Madonna. The contemporary image uses soft brush strokes to illustrate the Virgin Mary in a less impervious manner. The only modesty is held by the images eyes thus suggesting a provocative tone not accustomed to the usual Renaissance perception of the Mother of Christ, in doing so, Munch has abolished any preconceptions of this figure, by the wild hair, the provocative body language and the blood red halo, Munch has striped the character of her status, and shown her for something much more relatable, something rather human. Whilst this would have provoked a lot of people at the time, it was different, he didn’t conform to the social stereotypes and rather experiments with the nature of his own spirituality.