Edvard Munch in San Francisco - a photo on Flickriver

Edvard Munch in San Francisco

            This comprehensive exhibition of Munch's paintings was great fun to visit, and gave an appreciation of how his style changed over the years, even if the hanging was almost perversely out of chronology at times. His early mental problems and drinking were to a great extent overcome in his later life; the two left hand images ('Despair' and detail of 'Storm', centre) are earlier than 'The Artist and his Model' (right).

We knew about the Gauguin exhibition before leaving the UK, and went to the Munch show when we saw it on the back of a bus. It was interesting to compare the two artists. In the end I came away with more sympathy for Munch, he confronted his demons in his art, healed himself and led a long and creative life. Gauguin went to Tahiti because he thought Paris was 'degenerate', apparently. Paris must have been pretty bad if taking his venereal diseases to the South Pacific and setting up with a 14 year old girl was getting away from moral degeneracy. Gauguin spoke highly of the native culture in Tahiti, but painted pastiche images for sale in Paris that did not respect or portray that culture in any realistic way. That's a rather hard critique of Gauguin, but I came away from the two exhibitions with more respect for Munch than for the Frenchman.

(image of Gauguin exhibition next door in my photostream)

Taken on: October 1, 2017

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