The Storm

Munch, Edvard

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1893	en_US
dc.creator	Munch, Edvard	en_US
dc.date	1893	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-11-02T18:23:33Z
dc.date.available	2007-11-02T18:23:33Z
dc.date.issued	1893	en_US
dc.identifier	104951	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22448	en_US
dc.description	The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 44 Munch painted The Storm in Aasgaardstrand, a small Norwegian seaside resort where he often stayed. There had indeed been a violent storm there that summer, but the painting does not appear to show it, or even its physical aftermath; the storm here is an inner one, a psychic distress. Standing near the water, in an eerie blue half-light, half-dark Scandi-navian summer night, a young woman clasps her hands to her head. Other women, standing apart from her, make the same anguished gesture—to what end we are not sure. The circle in which they stand, and the protagonist's white dress, give to the scene the feeling of some ancient pagan ritual, even while the solid house in the background, its lit windows shining in the dark, suggests some more regular life from which these women are excluded—or perhaps that they find intolerable. Munch's art suggests a transformation of personal memories and emotions into a realm of dream, myth, and enigma. His exposure to French Symbolist poetry during a stay in Paris had convinced him of the necessity for a more subjective art; there was no need, he said, for more paintings of "people who read and women who knit." Associated with the international development of Symbolism in the 1890s, he is also recognized as a precursor of Expressionism.	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	91.8 x 130.8 cm (36.14 x 51.5 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	oil paint	en_US
dc.format.medium	canvas	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	131067	en_US
dc.rights	(c)Davis Art Images	en_US
dc.subject	Storms	en_US
dc.subject	Seaside resorts	en_US
dc.subject	Symbolism in art	en_US
dc.subject	Women in art	en_US
dc.subject	Art, Modern --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Painting, Norwegian -- 19th century	en_US
dc.subject	Paganism	en_US
dc.title	The Storm	en_US
dc.title.alternative	The Tempest	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Stürmische Nacht	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Stormy Night	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	MOMA-P2169	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 1351.74	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Norwegian	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Oil painting	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)	en_US