Details
$600.00
Oil on canvas
80 X 100 cm
unframed
Notes
'Flowering Tree near Munch's Grave' depicts a white lilac tree opposite the grave site of Edvard Munch - the Norwegian painter of 'The Scream'. The cemetery depicted is Cemetery of Our Saviour in Oslo.I was won over by Munch's paintings, although the people in his paintings tend to look dead, with their eyes sunken in. He achieved a sort of whiplash flow (the chi in Taoism) in his works which make them thoroughly Art Nouveau - probably more than any other painter I've seen.
I did not attempt to copy his flowing technique, but I allowed myself to be looser in form than usual with Flowering Tree near Munch's Grave, and some of his flowing fields did creep into my painting - in the grass and in the trees.