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Edvard Munch: The Frieze of Life - Currently Unavailable
"We should no longer paint interiors
with men reading and women knitting. We should paint living people who
breathe, feel, suffer and love." This manifesto, written in 1889
by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was realized in Munch's subsequent
works on the universal themes of Love, Anxiety, and Death, linked in a
"symphonic arrangement" he titled The Frieze of Life.
Shot on location in Norway, and from original paintings and graphic works,
with commentary drawn mainly from Munch's own writings, the film explores
the passionate and often anguished life of the artist who created one
of the world's most famous iconic images: The Scream. Narrated
by Anna Ford; voice of Munch: Ian Holm.Curator's Comments: Effective portrait of this tormented artist whose life had all the elements of soap opera: His mother and younger sister died during his adolescence; he rejected his father's rigid Christianity and turned to an atheist/mentor, Hans Jaeger, who espoused free love; he had unhappy love affairs, one ending in a violent quarrel which left him wounded by a gun shot. Munch had a nervous breakdown in 1918 and, when he recovered, lived out his remaining years as a virtual recluse. DATE: 1992 COUNTRY: Great Britain CREDITS: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: TOPICS:
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