By The Death Bed, By Edvard Munch

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Edvard Munch once said, “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul”. When he said this, was he talking about just nature or all of the world? In each one of Edvard Munch’s paintings did not only showcase what he saw, but what he felt and how he wanted people to feel when they saw it. In his 1896 piece titled By The Death Bed, he did just that. He took a simple image of a person on their deathbed, their mourning family surrounding them and turned it into a work that truly makes a viewer think about when death will truly come. In Edvard Munch’s painting By The Death Bed makes the viewer feel a sense of anxiety and emptiness expressed through his deep colors, his simplification of form, and how he used his own personal experiences to portray in his feelings of angst, love, death, and anxiety in his artwork.
Edvard Munch born in 1863 in Norway. He lived most of his life in Norway except for when he was studying in Germany and France. He used his paintings to express human emotions and life that weren’t always captured by other artists, his main themes were angst, love, anxiety, and death. He lost his mother and sister at a young age to tuberculosis In 1908 he suffered from alcoholism …show more content…

When a viewer looks at this painting, there is no complicated shapes or an extreme variety of colors. He has set the scene with 5 people looking down upon a body that appears to be dead, the use of black to show the feelings of mourning, sadness, and loneliness. The mixes of red and orange across the walls represented the love of his sister and maybe even the fever that they were suffering. His center focus is a woman, she isn’t mourning with the others. She may represent the angel of death, staring straight ahead, warning the viewer that death is all around us and could strike at anytime or

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