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Arts 'Scream' To Go On View At MoMA
2012.09.18 08:34
 Photo by Seong Koo Cho, June 3, 2011 Edvard Munch's 1895 version of "The Scream" - which became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction when it brought nearly $120 million at Sotheby's in May - will go on view at the Museum of Modern Art, courtesy of its new mystery owner, for six months, starting on Oct. 24. "This is an incredible opportunity for our visitors to see something that is otherwise hard to see," Glenn D. Lowery, the museum's director, said in a telephone interview. Munch made four versions of "The Scream" - an image that has become a universal symbol of angst and existential dread - from 1893 to 1910. Three are in Norweigian museums and have not traveled for years. This one, a pastel on board, is the only "Scream" still in private hands and the only one in the United States; it has never before been shown publicly in New York, officials at MoMA say. Depicting a hairless figure on a bridge under a brilliant yellow- orange sky, the composition was originally conceived by Munch as part of his "Frieze of Life" series, which explores themes of love, angst and death. "Some people call it the Mona Lisa of Modern art," Mr. Lowry said. This version, the most colorful of the four, has a frame painted by the artist with a poem describing a walk at the sunset ("I felt a whiff of melancholy - I stood/Still, deathly tired") that inspired the work. (It is also unique among the "Screams" for its backreound figure turning to look out onto the cityscape.) The New York financier leon Black is said to have been the buyer of the pastel at Sotheby's but nobody - including Mr. Black himself, officials at the Sotheby's or Mr. Lowry - would confirm that he was the one lending the painting in MoMA. Mr. Black is a member of MoMA's board, however (as well as of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). He is also one of this country's foremost collectors, having amassed a world-class art collection that includes paintings by manet, Cezanne and Degas; drawing by Raphael, Daumier and van Gogh and sculptures by Brancusi, Gauguin and Degas. Mr. Black, the chief executive of Apollo Global Management, is said to have developed a passion for art after studying it at Dartmouth College in the early 1970s. He has told friends that he considers "The Scream" particularly important because it is a precursor of 20th-century Expressionism. The pastel will be on view at MoMA through April 29, hanging in the first gallery on the museum's fifth floor, along with several prints that Munch made arounf the same time. "Over the years we have really built up our Munch holdings," Mr. Lowry said. "But the main focus of the exhibition will be the pastel." Security at the museum will be extremely strick. Besides being one of the most recognizable images ever - reproduced on everything from mugs and T-shirts to key chains and inflatable dolls - "The Scream" is also one of the most often tempting to thieves. Versions have been stolen twice, first in 1994, when two burglars fled the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo with an 1893 "Scream" (it was recovered unharmed later that year), and then in 2004, when masked gunmen stole the 1910 version, as well as Munch's " Madonna", from the Munch Museum, also in Oslo; both works were recovered two years later. When Sotheby's was selling the pastel, it was first put in view in London for five days, and more than 7,500 people passed through airport-style security scanners and bag checks to see it. When it then came to New York, the auction house restricted viewing to Sotheby's clients only. At MoMA, Mr. Lowery said; "It is our hope to maintain a normal flow of visitors and show it in a way so the public can best see it. But if the situation warrants, we might have to issue timed tickets."  Webpage by Sungja Cho |
Comment 3
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조승자#65
2012.09.18 08:36
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Chomee#65
2012.09.18 12:28
Munch 의 "The Scream " 앞에서 삼천포로 빠진 사진 O-H-I-O
아주 기발한 idea 입니다.
그런데 Vicki Probst는 미소를 짓고 있는것 같습니다ㅎ,ㅎ,ㅎ,
저희가 Norway National Museum에 갔을적에는
다른 방들은 flash 없이 사진 촬영이 허락 되였었는데
특히 Munch 전시장은 촬영이 금지 되여서 사진은 찍지 못하고
guide 가 설명 하여 주었던 Munch 그림 엽서만 몇장 사왔습니다.
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방준재*70
2012.09.18 19:05
Always as I do, I learned something from this article
- Munch, Scream, Oslo Natinational Museum, etc.
No wonder I call our site as Cyber University.
I still remember your past presentation about
Trip to Gemany which made me recall PBS's
program - "The Rape of Europa(2008)", Prof.
Seung-ja-nim. Thanks, again.
해가 짧고 추운 겨울이 긴 북구에서 우울증에 빠진 Munch의 그림앞에서
작난기가 동한 친구 Steve Probst의 sense of humor가 발동했습니다.
하긴 그 우울한 그림앞에서 함께 울 수는 없고...
Munch가 해질 무렵에 친구들과 산책을 하는데 넘어 가는 붉은 해를 보는 순간
가슴속에서 자기도 모르게 절규하고 싶은 충동을 느꼈다지요?
이 그림이 독일의 Expressionism을 초래했다고 Art historian들이 이야기 합니다.
Posing to scribe the Ohio State University cheer script O – H – I - O
next to the painting “The Scream” by Munch. Vicki Probst (O), Steve Probst(H),
Seong Koo Cho(I) and the last O is made up with the mouth of the Screamer
in the painting.