Edvard Munch — "Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the cha…"
Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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Norwegian Expressionist painter whose The Scream (1893) became the iconic image of modern existential dread.
Closely associated with
James Ensor (Belgian Expressionist peer) and Egon Schiele (younger Expressionist heir).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist (1841-1919) — Munch and Renoir were exact contemporaries painting the same Belle Époque from opposite emotional poles — Renoir's dappled-light bourgeois pleasure and Munch's anxiety-soaked bourgeois terror are the late-19th-century painting's two halves. The same world; the cleanest emotional inversion.
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Discussing his approach to art, emphasizing emotional perception over objective realism.