Happy birthday, Edvard Munch
| December 12th, 2006 at 23:47 |This picture was not originally titled “The Vampire” but received this name from a later art critic. The title in inappropriate, conjuring a one-way predatory relationship to the painting. The picture portrays two people in a complicated and painful love, having injured one another numerous times. Nonetheless, the man is consumed by a true devotional love but aware of the impossibility and pain of this relationship. He sinks into the bosom of the woman while she feels the irresistible urge to cling maddeningly to him, devouring their love but simultaneously is overbearingly hurt and frustrated. Thus, their desperate, hopeless, and painful “union” endures. Munch lays bare this experience of love that some of us have unfortunately experienced.
- Jason S.
