edvard munch,s moonlight,national gallery of art,washington,d.c.
EDVARD MUNCH.the Norwegian symbolist artist,sometimes turned realist-symbolist
is in NGA of Washington,D.C.,presenting his prints.
Munch meticulously cutting the layers of human psyche to expose fears in awe and screams.His works in 19th century fin-de siecle and before world war I has more of a poetical value to show human sufferring.Whether all these emotions are taken from photography or are inspired by his personal experience with witnessing the terrifying savage volcano,is still under debate.
But they are there,
The reality of apalling and fear.
the deep sound of scream,
a melodrama of madness and melancholy,
as W.H.AUDEN says:
HOW IT TAKES PLACE WHILE SOMEONE ELSE IS EATING
OR OPENING A WINDOW
OR JUST WALKING DULLY ALONG.
Ironically in a block away,on the west wing of National Gallery ,we are able to browse at a huge photgraphic howl
of King Allen Ginsberg ,of Beat Generation and his peers such as Jack Kerouac,William Burrows,Gregory Corso,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Diane Di Prima,Gary Snyder,ang others.
It is a similar experience and still different.
It is realist and symbolist again.
And fear of a generation lived and wrote through the experience of war,
a man made volcano,offered to men,women ,culture and nature.
It is our contemporay world.
Don't miss it,
even though by a virtual visit.
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