love, anxiety & death

I have always been fond of Edvard Munch’s work. Recently, I began to explore more of his artwork and (troubled) life and I am amazed at the emotional intensity as well as the unique & dynamic (inner self) expressive form of his paintings…

Cupid and Psyche, 1907

Attraction, 1896

Day After, 1894-5

Evening on Karl Johan Street, 1892

Kiss of Death, 1899

Madonna, 1894

Ashes, 1894

Moonlight, 1893

Woman in Three Stages, 1899

The Dance of Life, 1899

The Kiss, 1895

Puberty, 1894-5

Despair, 1892

Separation, 1896

Vampire, 1893-4

Spring, 1889

The Death Bed, 1895

Weeping Girl, c.1907

The Sick Child, 1907

Self-Portrait in Hell, 1903

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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life"
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity"
Edvard Munch