Ep 56: The Munch Bunch

Pep Talks for Artists

The band's back together! And this time, Elisabeth Condon, Jennifer Coates and I discuss "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth," a recent Munch survey exhibition at the Clark Institute. We each chose a single painting/print to discuss within the context of Munch's Monistic melancholy, love of clumps, and repetitious reveries.

Thank you to The New York Studio School for sponsoring this episode. Deadlines for MFA/Certificate are approaching Jan 15.

Elisabeth spoke about: "White Night" oil on canvas 1901

Jennifer spoke about: "The Magic Forest" oil on canvas 1919-25

Amy spoke about "Towards the Forest II" color woodcut 1915

More info about the show at the Clark: https://www.clarkart.edu/exhibition/detail/edvard-munch-trembling-earth

Texts mentioned: "Munch: An Inner Life" by Oystein Ustvedt, "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth" Clark Catalog, "The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames That Pour Out of the Earth" ed J. Gill Holland, Søren Kierkegaard's works: "Fear and Trembling" and "The Sickness Unto Death," "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985" ed Maurice Tuchman

Artists/Writers mentioned: August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and novelist, Piet Mondrian, Martha Diamond, Sam Francis

Fiddle Factoid: Jennifer mentioned the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) and its "troll tuning"

Online articles mentioned: "The Art of Repetition" by Martin Gayford for The Spectator & "The Soul Laid Bare" by Sue Prideaux for the Tate Museum online

Other Munch works mentioned: "The Scream" 1893, "The Sick Child" 1907, "Love and Pain" aka The Vampire 1895, "Death in the Sick Room" 1893, "Death Struggle" 1915, "Kiorsterud Garden of Asgaardstrand" 1905, "The Storm" 1893, "Girls on the Bridge" 1902

More info about Elisabeth Condon:

website: elisabethcondon.com | instagram: @elisabethcondon

Solo exhibition at Emerson Dorsch in Miami Dec 3

More info about Jennifer Coates:

website: jenniferlcoates.com instagram: @jennifercoates666

Solo exhibition at High Noon in NYC May 2024

More info about Amy Talluto (your beloved host):

website: amytalluto.com instagram: @talluts

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