Edvard Munch
Munch is famous for his painting
The Scream
. But he was also a great expressionistic painter and painted many other moving paintings. I wanted students to be able to see an artist's work as a whole. Munch created so many works depicting the deep emotional places of life, many of them filled with extremes, such as great love and great loss. This is a great view of the culmination of his life’s work, call
At the website below students will still get a great understanding for this artist, even if they view just a few slides in each section. (
warning there is nudity:
slides #7, 11, 13, 18, 22
) The wonderful thing about this site is that the notes for each painting are a primary source! Munch’s own words, from his own diaries. I hope you will take time to visit and explore the world according to Munch.
This is our artist model as we study the element of light. So much of Munch's work is from a deep place of emotion, I chose this painting because it offered a bright look at life and the environment around him at the time he painted this picture. Students will be using oil pastels and watercolor washes to paint this picture.