The Scream after Edvard Munch

The Scream after Edvard Munch

Raise your hands if you are our fans of MODA, the first museum of digital art in Bangkok. Brought to you last year, From Monet to Kandinsky welcoming massive art lovers was featuring a great compilation of 16 influential artists with their epitomized works in digital format. One of the heavyweights was Edvard Munch who created The Scream, an outstanding expressionist work in the history of art and we cannot help thinking of it for Halloween.

Printmaking was also an essential component of this Norwegian artist and Warhol created a wide range of renowned prints. A link between these two artists is no surprise.

Warhol visited Galleri Bellman in Manhattan where paintings and prints by Edvard Munch, including The Scream, the iconic 1895 lithograph on loan from the Munch Museum in Oslo were on exhibit. This reminded him of his overwhelming impression when he spent time enjoying Munch’s original works in Oslo in 1971.

Later in 1983 Warhol created a series of 15 works entitled After Munch series: The Scream, Eva Mudocci and Self Portrait juxtaposed with Madonna, inspired by two versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch. The first one was a painting distinguished with colorful lines created in 1893 and the second was a lithographic version with black lines from 1895.

By the time in the early 1980s when the Munch-inspired works were made, Warhol was well recognized as a master of prints and experimentalist.

Although The Scream after Munch is not on show in our Andy Warhol Pop Art, you surely cannot miss this most promising exhibition of the year with hundreds of original works.