EDVARD MUNCH PRINT

 edvard munch,s moonlight,national gallery of art,washington,d.c.

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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.

FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO MODERNISM

renoir's girl with watering can;gauguin's self portrait,chester dale's collection,nga

FROM IMPERSSIONISM TO MODERNISM,
IN CHESTER DALE COLLECTION
NGA,WASHINGTON,D.C.

CHESTER DALE'S COLLECTIONIS MORE OF FRENCH 19TH-20TH CENTURY AND THEIR"ANCESTORS"IN IMPRESSIONISM/POST IMPRESSIONISM PERIOD,TO REACH MODERNISM

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IN 19TH CENTURY FIN-DE-CIECLE OR TURN OF THE CENTURY,IMPRESSIONISTS HELD HANDS IN HANDS WITH ART AND HISTORY TO ENTER THE NEW CENTURY.THEIR INSIGHTS AND INSPIRATIONS FOUNDED THE MODERNISN,AS PICASSO AND DALI REPEATEDLY EMPHASIZED,AND PARTICULARLY MENTIONED CEZANNE, NAME AS THEIR FATHER AND PIONEER.IMPRESSIONISM EXTENDED WELL INTO 20TH CENTURY AND ESPECIALLY REVIVED BY THE LAST DECADES OF THIS ERA,AFTER MOVEMENTS SUCH AS CUBISM,EXPRESSIONISM,POP ARTS OF 60'S-70'S SLOWED DOWN.BY THIS IMPRESSIONIST'S IMPRESSIONS HELD HANDS IN HANDS OF MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM AT THE TURN OF 20TH CENTURY TO ENTER 21ST CENTURY.

IMPRESSIONISM IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL AS ITS ARTISTS WITH FIENSHIP AND MUTUAL SUPPORT WISHED,ALTHOUGH NOW SOMETIMES NOT FULLY AS ARTWORK BUT AS KITSCH ON T-SHIRTS,MUGS AND OTHER TOURISTS SOUVENIRS.

THIS EXHIBITION IN D.C. REMINDING US OF LASTING PRESENCE OF IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ASPIRATION FOR MODERNISM,AND EVEN POSTMODERNISM