"After the scream: The late paintings of Edvard Munch"; High Museum of Art. (Atlanta).You'd never know that Edvard Munch munch - To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain. Often confused with mung., like James Ensor, 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 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 ( k t -j -nâr. 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 by age and the Nazi occupation of Norway. Feb. 9-May 5.
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