tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post1456137037786034233..comments2023-08-25T08:48:01.101-04:00Comments on The Pagan Sphinx: Munch at MoMAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296223961815248113noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-59240653163934185782013-12-31T02:18:22.476-05:002013-12-31T02:18:22.476-05:00A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR YOU. A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR YOU. Táxi Pluviosohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03419519526820892824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-24699622069747864712013-12-24T05:59:28.416-05:002013-12-24T05:59:28.416-05:00Merry Christmas and much art for you. Merry Christmas and much art for you. Táxi Pluviosohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03419519526820892824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-44930066011927700362013-08-30T21:36:14.882-04:002013-08-30T21:36:14.882-04:00Thanks for the story of his work!Thanks for the story of his work!SandyCarlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752798823532580733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-86092522642291752042013-08-11T11:28:12.515-04:002013-08-11T11:28:12.515-04:00Hope you will be back blogging soon!! Miss your wo...Hope you will be back blogging soon!! Miss your wonderful and stimulating posts.agujahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15857809123531088629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-50595273954125514142013-05-11T21:11:02.752-04:002013-05-11T21:11:02.752-04:00Thanks for sharing his range of work and the range...Thanks for sharing his range of work and the range of feeling he depicted and evoked. Great stuff.SandyCarlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752798823532580733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-37924170964749989222013-04-25T10:57:15.828-04:002013-04-25T10:57:15.828-04:00I have been obsessed with Munch since the age of s...I have been obsessed with Munch since the age of sixteen, especially The Scream - so primeval, so compelling. I relish this post. Thanks a million!agujahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15857809123531088629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-19596390527980297982013-04-17T21:44:48.027-04:002013-04-17T21:44:48.027-04:00The Scream would never have become such a famous i...The Scream would never have become such a famous image had it not acted as a mirror for the inchoate fears each one of us experiences. We don't have to lose in order to feel loss; we fear loss because we can imagine the void. <br /><br />It's interesting that Nietzshe and Munch lived in the same era, the time period when science was fast overriding the religion people in Europe had embraced for the better part of two millennia. If you don't mind I'll attach a passage from The Joyous Science written in 1882, where a madman voices Nietzshe's ironic central message:<br /><br />Haven’t you heard of the madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran into the marketplace, and shouted over and over, ‘I’m looking for God! I’m looking for God!’ There were plenty of people standing there who didn’t believe in God, so he caused a great deal of laughter. ‘Did you lose him, then?’ asked one. ‘Did he wander off like a child?’ said another. ‘Or is he hiding? Is he scared of us? Has he gone on a voyage, or emigrated?’ They shouted and laughed in this manner. The madman leapt into their midst and pierced him with his look.<br /><br />‘Where is God?’ he shouted. ‘I’ll tell you. We’ve killed him, you and I! We are all his murderers. But how could we have done this? How could we gulp down the oceans? Who gave us a sponge to wipe away the whole horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from the sun? Where is it going now? Where are we going now? Away from all suns? Aren’t we falling forever, backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions at once? Do up and down even exist any more? Aren’t we wandering in an infinite void? Don’t we feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it become colder? Isn’t night coming on more and more all the time? Shouldn’t we light lanterns in the morning? Aren’t we already hearing the sounds of the gravediggers who are coming to bury God? Don’t we smell the stink of a rotting God—for gods rot too?<br /><br />‘God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him. How can we, the worst of all murderers, comfort ourselves? The holiest and mightiest thing that the world has yet possessed has bled to death beneath our knives!’<br /><br />Nietzshe had been a Christian in a much deeper sense than most modern people who practice Christianity. When he proclaimed the death of God and abandoned belief in a divinely ordained order to the cosmos, it was with the understanding it meant abandoning any claim of purpose or meaning for humanity or the world.<br /><br />This, of course, can be argued. Ethics haven't changed that much, and neither has our sense of the sacred, but a great deal about what he thought and Munch illustrated have continued to ring true in our modern age. I think that's a big part of the reason The Scream still resonates with us.<br /><br />I'm delighted you've returned to your blog (and that you've re-posted your classically beautiful header). All the very best ♡<br />susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-21669099201578659372013-04-17T10:48:22.262-04:002013-04-17T10:48:22.262-04:00It's great to see some of Munch's other st...It's great to see some of Munch's other stuff. Interesting.Bryan Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607046468663026271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-56505971460421143252013-04-17T07:14:25.955-04:002013-04-17T07:14:25.955-04:00Great post, I've never come close to seeing ev...Great post, I've never come close to seeing even a print of "The Scream" but there is something about it that appeals to almost everybody.<br /><br />Nice to see a post, I've missed you.Yogi♪♪♪https://www.blogger.com/profile/00411274031147372579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-37746741510849920522013-04-16T21:34:13.164-04:002013-04-16T21:34:13.164-04:00Your site is a gallery in itself. In many respects...Your site is a gallery in itself. In many respects better than. One can give fuller attention. You are a true curator. I never understood Munch. Now I see he not merely accepted but embraced. So he finds beauty where the typical human reaction is to run panic-stricken in the opposite direction. And shares it with us. <br /><br />As do you. thanks. Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com