Talk:Edvard Munch

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Overall, the essay seems to overgeneralize, overreach, and occasionally confuse sequence with causality. It's overgeneralizing, for instance, to say all female figures in his work fall at the poles of virgin/whore, and assumes too much to derive traits or behavior from what his father said, or from a period of hospitalization (post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy).

In this sentence, "symbolist" seems to be mistaken in terms of the evidence cited, and should have been "expressionist" (or Expressionist): "While stylistically influenced by the postimpressionists, Munch's subject matter is symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality."

Also, when using terms like Symbolist/symbolist, Expressionist/expressionist/expressionistic, etc., there's a question of, so to speak, programmatic/selfdefined vs. empirical, or narrow vs. broad description: did the artist avow/intend the connection to a movement; was the artist of the same historical period or moment; is the term a "term of art" particular to the field of art history, with a conventionally agreed upon definition. In the preceding paragraph, uppercase seems to apply (Postimpressionist, Expressionist). Paulownia5 19:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Essay? I think that Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. -- Pichote 19:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I think you should say more OVERALL on his painting... THE SCREAM...

I think we should include a paragraph on the theft of Munch works. Karl Stas 09:31, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

And about the newly discovered painting. Uttaddmb 14:41, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Way too much focus on one painting from such a diverse painter who went through so many phases and techniques. Seriously little description of the periods that he went through. Thechosenone021 22:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Um in other searches i found that Edvard Munch was born in Loten Norway, not Adalsbruk Norway —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sachiko 89 (talk • contribs)

Ådalsbruk is a village in Løten municipality. We could maybe be specific about that, but then again the reader can just click the Ådalsbruk link and read more about where the place is, so I thinks it's ok as it is. Shanes 15:05, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Google

Hey I figured out colours...

Anyway, "The Scream" is a Google logo at the moment if anyone's interested. --WikiSlasher 11:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sure. :) And a nice one. -- Pichote 11:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, so perhaps the page should be protected to prevent the vandalism that typically results. RyanLivingston 13:06, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

What happened to assuming good faith? We're now assuming that linking to our pages causes vandalism rather than improvements to the page? Has any vandalism been detected? Stevage 00:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The logo only links to the Google search for the term "Edvard Munch" it does not directly link to the article. And last time I checked Wikipedia was only the third or fourth result anyway and the protection policies do not allow for protecting pages because of predicted vandalism that hasn't happened yet. --WikiSlasher 02:21, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

OK so there was a little bit of vandalism I admit. --WikiSlasher 02:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Should be unprotected now, I think. 70.104.16.182 03:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Yea I agree, there shouldn't be much problem now. ParsifalTG

Well, I just came here on this page by the google logo, so at least in Switzerland (UTC+1) it's still current. In future, one should maybe wait some other hours after 00:00 until unprotecting again. --CHamul 06:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Edvard Munch is #2 at this Google Search (from the image click) [1] — Deon555^talk_desk 05:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Dictionary.com has a small feature on their front page, "How do you say Edvard Munch?" Note that both his first and surname are pronounced strangely/wrongly. Geschichte (talk) 10:40, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Is it Munch` "Fear" globally relevant?

Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: Painting, pastel, Norwegian Edward Munch "Scream", which shows the painter fears not to go mad, with 119,9 million dollars at Sotheby`s in New York became the most expensive painting in the world. Is that also a "recognition" of our current "collective fears" in the encreasingly globalized world? 85.114.62.130 (talk) 11:04, 5 May 2012 (UTC)