eduard munch

Eduard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter, engraver, and printer. He is often reputed to have been a loner and a misogynist. Many of his works revolve around a motif concerning women and their obscene vulgarity. The two works that will be described here are Vampire (1893) and Jealousy (1896). These two depict women as creatures of temptation, petty provokers of pain, and selfish enslavers of vulnerable men. To just marginally understand Munch’s hatred of women, …

…works, which thrives, on his misogynist motif. His unfortunate ambiguity towards females is shown successfully through his use of color, brush strokes (or sometimes engravings), and positioning of his models/figures. Although he did not necessarily command his audience to hate women (since no artist really forces a thinking pattern into the minds of his/her viewers), he decided that through art he could expose them as the evil seductresses he believed them to be.