7 h. ago Edvard Munch at the National Portrait Gallery: studies in love and revenge

Munch’s little seen portraits prove to be remarkable odes to the people who influenced him, as well as wicked takedowns

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22 h. ago 7 Emmerdale spoilers with Ella's revenge, concern grows as love blossoms and Steph turns to the extreme

One villager might be forced to bid farewell to the Dales for good

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67 h. ago Edvard Munch shows in London, US take viewers ‘beyond The Scream’

Edvard Munch shows in London, US take viewers ‘beyond The Scream’  South China Morning Post

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68 h. ago Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair

National Portrait Gallery, LondonStrindberg and his psychic double and the fierce sister of Nietzsche are among the stars in this show devoted to the Norwegian painter’s tremendous portraits – yet the omissions are glaringIn the autumn of 1908, Edvard Munch admitted himself to Dr Daniel Jacobson’s private clinic in Copenhagen to be treated for acute alcohol-induced psychosis. Over the next eight months, Jacobson helped him give up nicotine as well as drink. Of the stream of images Munch painted in the clinic – never paralysed by any setback – one is a towering portrait of the doctor that appears about halfway through this new show.Jacobson stands tall, feet widely planted, hands on hips in his three-piece suit. His face is all sharp-eyed intelligence, equal to any crisis. The sitter thought the picture loopy, perhaps because of all the pulsating energy that radiates around him in swift strokes to rival his vigour. But a photograph of the two men, the painting between them, shows it ...

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5 d. ago Edvard Munch’s Striking Portraits Take the Spotlight in London. Here Are 5 Must

Edvard Munch’s Striking Portraits Take the Spotlight in London. Here Are 5 Must-See Works  artnet News

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6 d. ago Where the art of Edvard Munch comes alive: a city break in Oslo

As a new exhibition celebrating the portraits of Edvard Munch opens at London’s National Portrait Gallery, we take a trip to the artist’s home city in NorwayI reach Ekeberg Park at sunset and walk along the muddy paths to find the viewpoint. The late winter sky is like a watercolour: soft blue and grey clouds layer together, with a sweeping gradient of yellow verging from tobacco stain to pale lemon above the distant, bruise-coloured hills. At the viewpoint, I look out over Oslo and listen for a scream.In 1892, Edvard Munch took a walk in this same park as the sun was setting. Recording the experience in his diary, he wrote that he heard “a great and infinite scream through nature”. The experience became the basis of his most enduring painting. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago By focusing on Edvard Munch’s portraiture, London's National Gallery reveals a different side of the Norwegian Expressionist

By focusing on Edvard Munch’s portraiture, London's National Gallery reveals a different side of the Norwegian Expressionist  Art Newspaper

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3 w. ago The Face Magazine: Culture Shift review – rebellious fashion photography with a raucous sense of fun

National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe style monthly was loud, left-field and unabashedly British. The 200 images from 50 photographers on show reflect its furious energy and explosive creative couplings SPEED SEX GORE AGGRO promised a 1998 cover of the Face. The cover star was Alexander McQueen, looking like a revenant with blanched white skin and blood-red eyes. “He wanted to express the idea of the burning rage felt by Joan of Arc being burned at the stake,” the photographer Nick Knight recalls.In its initial run between 1980 and 2004, the cult style magazine served this kind of madness every month to its avid young readers. The Face even managed to make David Beckham dirty, with soy sauce and coffee dribbling down his abs. This exhibition is suitably splashy, and with more than 200 photographs by 80 photographers it convincingly demonstrates the publication’s influence and audacity. It is a riotous romp through two decades of British fashion, from New Romantics to Gothic Romantics...

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