{"id":14981,"date":"2021-02-26T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:26:21","slug":"love-and-pain-the-vampires-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/love-and-pain-the-vampires-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Pain, the Vampire&#8217;s Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edvard Munch is known as a quintessential modern artist with <em>The Scream<\/em> as his magnum opus. While quiet and reclusive, he was always a sickly child too, and dealt with many traumas. Throughout his life we see Munch use art as a therapy to express his emotions and understand his inner self. One such project of self-reflection is Munch&#8217;s <em>Frieze of Life<\/em> series meant to visually capture the stages of life, love and jealousy, anxiety, infidelity, and the separation in life and death. The painting known today as <a href=\"https:\/\/munch.emuseum.com\/en\/objects\/3468\/vampyr?ctx=edb9a39c-2a5f-450b-b18a-fd3fc97d96a5&amp;idx=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Vampire<\/em> <\/a>was first shown in Berlin in 1893 as part of his love theme under its artist-given title, <em>Love and Pain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/painting\/munch-vampire-1895\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14983 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Edvard Munch- Love and Pain\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MU7018-FR-X402420X24R_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>The beauty of this piece not only comes from the artist&#8217;s palette and ability but also from its open-ended messaging. Viewers of the time saw this work as dark and macabre. Images of the femme fatal were popular. Viewers also thought the woman-dominated composition was scandalous. Critic and friend of Munch, Stanislow Przybyszewski, described the painting saying, &#8220;A broken man, and on his beck a biting vampire&#8217;s face&#8230;&#8221;(S. Przybyszeski, <em>Psychic Naturalism<\/em>, 1894, p. 174). Munch disagreed with this analysis, stating it was only a woman kissing a man on the neck. Despite the artists&#8217; intentions, <em>Vampire<\/em> stuck and Munch even titled future versions of this motif after the blood-sucking creature.<\/p>\n<p>For the artist, <em>Love and Pain<\/em> was a meditation on, you guessed it, love. The artist&#8217;s tumultuous history with relationships is the supposed inspiration for this piece. He wrote in a journal about his emotional yearning to, &#8220;rest against a woman &#8212; against her breast &#8212; for someone to stroke his hair &#8212; and then to rest, just rest and feel the warmth of her body &#8212; And she would whisper to him, kiss him softly on the hair&#8221; (A. Eggum, <em>Edvard Munch, The Frieze of Life from Painting to Graphic Art<\/em>, Oslo, 2000, p. 178.) The woman&#8217;s brilliant red hair enhances the embrace of the woman. It adds warmth to the cobalt blues in the man&#8217;s coat. These emotions of love and despair radiate around the figures like an aura, a classic Munch feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edvard Munch is known as a quintessential modern artist with The Scream as his magnum opus. While quiet and reclusive, he was always a sickly child too, and dealt with many traumas. Throughout his life we see Munch use art as a therapy to express his emotions and understand his inner self. 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