Edvard Munch: Graphics, Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture (1968)
1968 · Short film · 27 min · dir. Clifford B. West
Synopsis
Born in 1863, the Norwegian artist watched his mother and sister succumb to tuberculosis by the time he was fourteen, leaving him with a deep foreboding of death, which colored his early canvases and works on paper. Munch was also haunted by the spectre of beautiful women, who he portrayed as vampires or dominant sexual forces, and characterized his perspective on new artistic technology by stating: "The camera cannot compete with the brush and the palette so long as it cannot be used in heaven…
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- Director
- Clifford B. West
- Running time
- 27 minutes
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- Clifford B. West Director
