Charlotte Fortune, currently doing her Bronze award with Artspiration School of Drawing and Painting.
Age : 11 years
Exhibition : Munch:Van Gogh Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum
On 30 October 2015 I visited the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam, to see the Munch:Van Gogh Exhibition. This exhibition looked at the parallels between the two artists. There were more than a hundred artworks including versions of "The scream" and "Madonna" by Edvard Munch as well as "Starry night over the Rhone" and "Patience Escalier"by Vincent van Gogh.
Munch was Norwegian and Van Gogh was Dutch. Munch was born in 1863, ten years after Van Gogh but both started painting in 1880. Van Gogh died aged just 37 and Munch lived until he was 80. Both artists suffered from depression and their paintings often depicted the way that they felt. An example is Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' painted in 1893 and Van Gogh's 'The Bridge of Trinquetaille' painted in 1888.
Both Munch and van Gogh painted many self-portraits.
Although both painters were in Paris at the same time their paths never crossed.
Both Munch and van Gogh are very intense artists and could show the way that they felt in their paintings by their use of colour and brush strokes. Van Gogh's 'The Potato Eaters' is very bleak. The painting is very dark with the only light coming from the lamp. Munch's 'The Scream' is also filled with emotion. Munch painted four versions of 'The Scream'. I saw the crayon on board version at the exhibition. The colours were very dull in this picture and this picture made me feel a bit bleak.
I really enjoyed visiting this exhibition. I have never before been to an exhibition of either van Gogh or Munch's paintings and was very lucky to see them both together. Seeing the pictures together I could see the similarities in their work.
I found the exhibition very interesting and it would be something I would definitely enjoy visiting again. I was very inspired by this exhibition and I would have recommended this exhibition to anyone interested in the impressionist period or just in Van Gogh or Munch's work. Unfortunately, this exhibition has now ended.
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