RON HENGGELER |
October 16, 2017
Edvard Munch at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Between the Clock and the Bed
June 24–October 9, 2017
Last Monday, I went to the SFMOMA on the final day of the Edvard Munch Show.
Because it was a holiday, and the last day of this show, the galleries were packed with an animated noisey mob of show-goers.
It all felt a bit like being at Pier 39 on a Fourth of July weekend. It also seemed reminiscent of cattle milling about in a feed lot.
Funny too, is that now at museum shows, everyone, EVERYONE, is saving and sharing the show on their "smart" phones.
This now very common sight indicates the new way museum-goers are experiencing masrterworks of art.
The large crowd viewing the profound paintings of Edvard Munch took this to a new level that I'd not seen before, and I had to keep myself from laughing out loud.
The top of the Sutro Tower with the lawn and trees of Alamo Square, as seen from Fulton Street near Pierce. |
San Francisco viewed from the parking lot in front of the Legion of Honor at Lincoln Park. |
The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge espied through the trees, as seen from the parking lot in front of the Legion of Honor at Lincoln Park. |
San Francisco as seen from Clement and 36th Avenue |
A smoke-filled dawn in San Francisco, with the uncontained fires raging in Sonoma and Napa.Viewed from my upstairs window |
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The Salesforce tower and a smoke-filled dawn in San Francisco |
Salesforce Tower on the left and the dome of the San Francisco City Hall |
Mission and 9th Street in San Francisco |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as seen from the Yerba Buena Gardens |
Entrance to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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The Lonely Metropolitan, 1932by Herbert Bayer |
A master by the age of 30, Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was among the most celebrated and controversial artists of his generation. But, as he confessed in 1939, his true breakthrough came very late in life. The show featured 44 landmark compositions about art, love, mortality, and the ravages of time. Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed used the artist’s last significant self-portrait as a starting point to reassess a lifetime of painting. These profoundly human and technically daring artworks reveal Munch as a tireless innovator and an artist as revolutionary in his maturity as he was in his breakthrough years.Organized by SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Munch Museum, Oslo, this exhibition included treasured paintings from the artist’s own collection, six of them never before exhibited in the United States. |
Organized by SFMOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Munch Museum, Oslo, this exhibition included treasured paintings from the artist’s own collection, six of them never before exhibited in the United States.Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed |
Self Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed1940-43Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
The Night Wanderer1923-24Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
The Artist and His Model1919-21Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Red Virginia Creeper1898-1900Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Sick Mood at Sunset: Despair1892Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Ashes1925Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Weeping Nude1913-14Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Inheritance1897-99Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
The Storm1893Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Inheritance1897-99Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Puberty1894Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with Brushes1894Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
The Night Wanderer1923-24Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed1940-43Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with Brushes1894Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Jealousy1907Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Eye in Eye1899-1900Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Death Struggle1915Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Death in the Sick Room1893Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Death Struggle1915Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Sleepless Night: Self Portrait in Inner Turmoil1920Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu1919Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Sleepless Night: Self Portrait in Inner Turmoil1920Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu1919Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with a Cigarette1895Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with a Cigarette1895Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu1919Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self Portrait in Hell1903Oil on canvasEdvard Munch
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Madonna1895-97Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Madonna1895-97Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Sick Mood at Sunset: Despair1892Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Detail of: Red Virginia Creeper1898-1900Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu1919Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with a Cigarette1895Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Death Struggle1915Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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The Smell of Death1895Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Self-Portrait with Brushes1894Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Self Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed1940-43Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
Oil on canvasEdvard Munch |
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Salesforce Tower through the window curtain at SFMOMA |
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Upper outside balcony at SFMOMA |
Salesforce Tower seen from the upper outside balcony at SFMOMA |
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Detail of the PG&E Building behind the SFMOMA |
Detail of the PG&E Building behind the SFMOMA |
Saint Patrick's Church on Mission across the street from Yerba Buena Gardens |
Another smoke-filled dawn in San Francisco, with the fires raging in Sonoma and Napa.Viewed from my upstairs window |
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Another smoke-filled dawn in San Francisco, with fires raging in Sonoma and Napa.Viewed from my upstairs window |
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