"After the scream: The late paintings of Edvard Munch"; High Museum of Art. (Atlanta).You'd never know that Edvard Munch, like James Ensor James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. , went on living and painting well after his fifteen minutes of fame; but now that we've become fascinated by the late work of several innovators whose art presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. expired long before they did (de Chirico, Picabia), perhaps Munch, too, will be swept up in this sea change. The Scandinavian painter lived to be an octogenarian oc·to·ge·nar·i·an adj. Being between 80 and 90 years of age. n. A person between 80 and 90 years of age. . What happened after his high anxiety of the 1890S? The sixty-plus works in the exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Prelinger, should yield some discoveries--his variations on earlier themes and, above all, his late self-portraits, darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. by age and the Nazi occupation of Norway. Feb. 9-May 5. |
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