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Эдвард Мунк

Дата рождения: 12. Декабрь 1863
Дата смерти: 23. Январь 1944

Э́двард Мунк — норвежский живописец и график, театральный художник, теоретик искусства. Один из первых представителей экспрессионизма. Его творчество повлияло на современное искусство. Творчество Мунка охвачено мотивами смерти, одиночества, но при этом и жаждой жизни.

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Цитаты Эдвард Мунк

„В своём искусстве я попытался объяснить себе жизнь и её смысл. Я также попытался помочь другим разъяснить свою жизнь.“

— Эдвард Мунк

Об исскустве

„Часто я просыпался ночью, оглядывал комнату и спрашивал себя: «Не в аду ли я?»“

— Эдвард Мунк

Об аде, О ночи

„Нужно прекратить писать вяжущих женщин и читающих мужчин. Я буду писать людей дышащих, чувствующих, любящих и страдающих. Люди должны проникаться святостью этого и снимать перед картинами шляпы, как в церкви.“

— Эдвард Мунк

О женщинах, О людях, О чувствах

„Мать, которая умерла молодой, передала мне склонность к туберкулёзу, а легко возбудимый отец, набожный до фанатизма потомок старинного рода, посеял во мне семена безумия… С момента моего рождения, ангелы тревоги, беспокойства и смерти были всегда рядом… Часто я просыпался ночью, оглядывал комнату и спрашивал себя: «Не в аду ли я?»“

— Эдвард Мунк

О смерти, О семье, Об ангелах, О матери

„Камера никогда не будет конкурировать с кистью и палитрой. До тех пор, как фотография не будет принята в рай или ад.“

— Эдвард Мунк

Об аде, О фотографиях

„Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature... There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foolish to deny the existence of the soul. After all, that a life has begun, that cannot be denied. It is necessary to believe in immortality, insofar as it can be demonstrated that the atoms of life or the spirit of life must continue to exist after the body’s death. But of what does it exist, this characteristic of holding a body together, causing matter to change and develop, this spirit of life? I felt it as a sensual delight that I should become one with – become this earth which is forever radiated by the sun in such a constant ferment and which lives – lives – and which will grow plants from my decaying body – trees and flowers – and the sun will warm them and I will exist in them – and nothing will perish – and that is eternity.“

— Edvard Munch
T 2760 (January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 119

„The point is that one sees things at different moments with different eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which one sees also depends on one's mood.... coming in from a dark bedroom in the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won't do merely to sit and gaze at everything 'just as one sees'. One must paint precisely the fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when the motif struck one... In some circumstances a chair may seem to be just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must have caught the interest in which case the onlooker's interest must somehow be engaged in the same way. It's not the chair that should be painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in Saint Cloud, 1890 - probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh“

— Edvard Munch
Quote of Munch from: T 2770, (1890); as cited in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 83-84

„When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions. I have chosen – in accordance with Søren Kierkegaard – to split the work into two parts; the painter and his distraught friend the poet. Just as Leonarda da Vinci studied the recesses of the body and dissected human cadavers, I try from self-scrutiny to dissect what is the universal in the soul [written after 1908]“

— Edvard Munch
in The Mad Poet's Diary, T 2734

„My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship... My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life - it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.“

— Edvard Munch
As quoted in 'From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity', Potter P. Emerg Infect Dis, 2011

„I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.
Then people would see!
A strong naked arm – a tanned powerful neck a young woman rests her head on the arching chest.
She closes her eyes and listens with open and quivering lips to the words he whispers into her long flowing hair.
I should paint that image just as I saw it – but in the blue haze.
Those two at that moment, no longer merely themselves, but simply a link in the chain binding generation to generation.
People should understand the significance, the power of it. They should remove their hats like they do in church.
There should be no more pictures of interiors, of people reading and women knitting.
There would be pictures of real people who breathed, suffered, felt, loved.
I felt impelled – it would be easy. The flesh would have volume – the colours would be alive.
There was an interval. The music stopped. I was a little sad. I remembered how many times I had had similar thoughts – and that once I had finished the painting – they had simply shaken their heads and smiled.
Once again I found myself out on the Boulevard des Italiens. [written in Saint Cloud, 1889]“

— Edvard Munch
Quotes from his text: 'Saint Cloud Manifesto', Munch (1889): as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 120 -121

„I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall. [as model for his painting 'Morning', 1884]“

— Edvard Munch
Quote in Munch's letter to Olav Paulsen, September 1884; as cited in Edvard Much – behind the scream, w:Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 53