[名画之旅]Edvard Munch——爱德华·蒙克, 我最喜欢的一个

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Edvard Munch (爱德华·蒙克, 1863-1944 ) is one of my favorite artists among so many titains in the history of western fine arts and any name of them will flash beautiful pictures before my eyes, as the shining Sunflowers of Dear Vincent (凡高), the tranquil water lily by Monet (莫奈) , or the smile so amazing shown in Mona Lisa. However, Munch, may be the first even the deepest, to touch my heart.

At the age of 5, he saw his mother's death of tuberculosis and nine years later once again witnessed his older sister following the step, and another younger one, mental disorder. Childhood so, no wonder someone portrays him like "Damaged by childhood and by appalling family tragedies, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was obsessed by sickness, insanity and death."

Sickness, insanity and death and more as uneasiness, confusion and emptiness are the theme for him to express and the darkened color and tortured line are his metre in his “poetry”. As shown in some of his works, empty face, if there’s someone, scary color, always, twisted strokes, sky and river and the earth, all of which are revealing some “innermost” impression of the time, the world and human spirit.

"This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper." T.S.Eliot in his The Hollow Man wrote as such which is taken as a typical sigh for the dieing 19th century and in his great Wasteland the bell of pessimism towards the century’s spirit rings again. The sharp and deep eye of the time contributes to Eliot’s greatness and, in my mind, a same sharp and deep brush, though sometimes colored by insanity, gives us more vivid and more impressive descriptions of the time, and this brush named Edvard Munch.
（艾略特的《空心人》我还是满喜欢的，“世界就是这样结束，不是“砰”的一响，而是“嘘”的一声。”把世纪末的感觉都写出来了，至于《荒原》，呵呵，只记得小艾用了鱼王失去生殖能力的神话象征当时欧洲的精神萎靡不堪，其它的，不敢乱说了。从蒙克的画里也能感到这种世纪末的味道，那种对精神，欲望的表述）

本来想写一些简单的介绍的，可是觉得不如http://www.edvard-munch.com/index1.htm
这个网站上的介绍好，就放弃了，写了一点乱弹，  ，（对蒙克有兴趣的朋友可以上去看看，这个网站做的很好看）。

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这幅是蒙克的代表作了，译作《呐喊》或者《呼号》关于这幅画的创作冲动，蒙克写道：“我和两个朋友一起散步。太阳下去了，突然间，天空变得血样的红，一阵忧伤涌上心头，我呆呆地伫立在栏杆旁。深蓝色的海湾和城市上方是血与火的空际，朋友们继续前行，我独自站在那里，由于恐怖而战栗，我觉得大自然中仿佛传来一声震憾宇宙的呐喊。”背景中的两个人就是朋友了。
特别喜欢蒙克的扭曲的色彩，动感十足，这幅画中天空和河流扭结到了一起，虽然没有声音，但让人感到是呼号的声音将这天地撕裂，整个画面仿佛在无声的号叫中震动起来。画里无脸的人是蒙克画的特征之一，空洞麻木没有表情，和艾略特的空心人正好是一种对照。

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这一幅是我最喜欢的，译作圣母玛利亚，（不过我怎么想都是麦当娜，呵呵  ），"The pause during which the entire world halts in its orbit. Your face embodies all the beauty of the world. Your lips, as crimson as a ripe fruit, are half open as if to express pain. A corpse's smile. Here life and death shake hands. The chain that links thousands of past generations to the thousands to come has been meshed." 这是蒙克的原话，我就不评论了，蒙克有一段时间受bohemia的影响很厉害，（估计NOX老大要用“放荡”这个词来形容），在行为上，用颓废，性自由来反抗当时欧洲糜烂的精神，在艺术上，对于人的欲望的表现特别强烈，如果这是圣母玛利亚的话，那么就是狂欢的圣母了

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吸血鬼，沉闷压抑的色调，整块黑和红的对比（让我想起了艾伦坡的《红死》中的最后一间房间），营造了一种恐怖的气氛，加上流动的色彩，像鲜血一般流淌。

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生命之舞， 画面中从左到右的三位女性其实代表的是同一个女人，从青年到中年至老年的过程，跳着圆滑的舞步，人生就如此飘忽而逝，值得注意的是女士在不同时期的颜色，淡而有纹的青年，灼烈鲜红的中年，黯淡无光的老年。

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基本上所有的画家都是从写实画起，毕加索也有忧郁的蓝色时期，如果蒙克就停留于此，我一样会喜欢他，但也许在美术史里就很难找到他的痕迹了。虽然画面整体为黑色，但人物的表情却很生动，明亮的眼睛和丰润的嘴唇。

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桥上少女。 偶尔在蒙克的画里也会有明丽的色彩，其实，蒙克后期也有不少色调明快的作品，可惜都是从mental hospital回来之后的事情了