The Murderess — Edvard Munch

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costigdj March 19, 20136:12 pm Reply

nice!

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acoplador March 19, 20136:27 pm Reply

Reblogged this on " F I N I T U D E ".

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LMH March 19, 20136:52 pm Reply

Is it the murder scene from Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent?

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1. Biblioklept March 20, 201310:02 am Reply
  
  The painting is almost exactly contemporary with the book’s publication — 1906 for the painting and 1907 for the book—so likely no, although the resonance is clear. From Wikipedia
  
  However, despite this positive change, Munch’s self-destructive and erratic behavior involved him first with a violent quarrel with another artist, then with an accidental shooting in the presence of Tulla Larsen, who had returned for a brief reconciliation, which injured two of his fingers. She finally left him and married a younger colleague of Munch. Munch took this as a betrayal, and he dwelled on the humiliation for some time to come, channeling some of the bitterness into new paintings.[63] His paintings Still Life (The Murderess) and The Death of Marat I, done in 1906-7, clearly reference the shooting incident and the emotional after effects.[64]
  
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