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No Frigate Like a Book

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Rose | Taurus | Queer It's Rude To Ask a *insert Weird Gender Noise* their age but I'm an Adult... theoretically a dreamer | a reader | a word weaver "Wherever I’ve lived my room and soon the entire house is filled with books; poems, stories, histories, prayers of all kinds stand up gracefully or are heaped on shelves, on the floor, on the bed. Strangers old and new offering their words bountifully and thoughtfully, lifting my heart." ~Mary Oliver
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eflatminorseven

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

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jonah2145

Also very big! Takes up two stories!

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nimashkawizii

As other folks noticed in the comments, these are not the same paintings. But they ARE both by Edvard Munch who, turns out, maybe just liked painting the sun?

The wikipedia catalogue of Munch's paintings, almost 1800 in total, lists no fewer than 50 works with the word 'sun" in them, and a full TEN of his paintings are just called The Sun (or Solen, if you want to stick with the original Norwegian, which I assume Munch himself did?)

The dates of the paintings help keep them straight... somewhat. Sadly, I couldn't find any of the three versions of The Sun (1910-1913) online.

  • The Sun (1910)
  • The Sun (1910)
  • The Sun (1910-1912)
  • The Sun (1910-1913)
  • The Sun (1910-1913)
  • The Sun (1910-1913)
  • The Sun (1910-1911) This is the second photo in the above posts! It's 14.6ft high, and 25.4ft wide, and lives in the Munch Museum in Oslo, Noway (accession number MM.M.00963)
  • The Sun (1911) This is the first photo of this post! It lives in Hall of Ceremonies at the University of Oslo. It's 14.7ft tall and 25.7ft wide. (accession number UiO.K.01399)
  • The Sun (1912)
  • The Sun (1912-1913) This one also lives at the Munch Museum in Oslo, but I can't find it's measurements (perhaps understandably, it's not so easy to be clear on which is which.)

Quite a few of his paintings were stolen by the Nazis after they invaded Norway in 1940 (they called it "degenerate art" because, I prefer to think, Hitler was jealous). Thankfully, much of the art was recovered but not before Munch died, at the age of 80, in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1944.

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saxifraga-x-urbium
#art#i will take the sun in my mouth#Feeding the Queue
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