A series on Edvard Munch.
The smaller inner image is based on a photograph of Munch seated surrounded by his paintings.
A SERIES DEALING WITH eDVARD mUNCH
Drawing done on a ro;; of wallpaper that I discovered in our house. The image is from a photograph of Munch painting in Kragero with a group of children watching him.
In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other 11 were never recovered), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis
A work based on a painting Munch did. To me it reflects on some level Munch's fearless investigations into the human psyche.
In this Mixed Media work in the lower left corner is a child watching carefully Munch Painting outdoors at Kragero. That image is based on a photograph.
Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, just over a month after his 80th birthday. Shortly after Munch's death several men, including Fritz Jenssen, the NS-mayor of Oslo, arrived at his Ekely house to offer his family a state funeral. His family refused this offer, but to no avail - the Nazis insisted.[107] Despite Munch's wish for a private cremation with nobody present; his funeral was hijacked by the Nazis and turned it into a propaganda opportunity
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Quote from the CMA website on Gift by Man Ray in the CMA collection.... " Man Ray made the original version in 1921 for the opening of his first solo exhibition in Paris. Upon leaving the gallery for a drink, he spied an iron for pressing clothes in a hardware store, purchased it, along with tacks and glue, assembled the object, and placed it in the gallery as a "gift" for a random visitor. By the time the show closed, the object had disappeared, snatched by an unknown admirer..."
A SERIES THAT CONCERNS A SCULPTURE BY mAN rAY THAT WAS STOLDEN FROM HIS EXHIBIT IN pARIS IN 1921.
Wallpaper
Background
I was at a hardware store and someone who worked there asked me if I wanted a large book of wallpaper samples. I took the book and got to work on a series that had in the back of my mind something about Max Ernst and Paul Eluard
Wallpaper
I have always been fascinated by the paintings on walls by Max Ernst discovered under the wallpaper of the home of the poet Paul Eluard.