Edvard Munch, Kunsthal Rotterdam, through 20 February 2011
The first Rotterdam show of the fascinating late 19th - early 20th-century Norwegian painter Edvard Munch comprises 150 paintings and drawings on paper. The featured works, borrowings from private collections, provide a unique insight into Munch's impressive body of art. To quote the painter, "we should no longer paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. We should paint living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love." For Munch, life, love, loneliness and death are the main subjects of all art. Influenced by Naturalism, Impressionism and Symbolism, he created his own unique language of art on the basis of these movements - rooted in impressive composition and great brushwork and linear skills.
341 Westzeedijk
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