Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream and Madonnawere stolen from an art museum in Norway on Sunday. I was surprised that the robbery was committed in broad daylight! Will these paintings be sold through the black-market channels? I am sure the people of museum will not be able to sleep until they get their paintings safetly back. They are hoping no harm or damage will happen to the paintings. Maybe.
By the way, I will introduce a pretty, little weird Ukiyoe today. Those are the works of Kuniyoshi Utagawa. It is a series called Kingyo Zukushi. The motif of Kingyo Zukushi paintings are anthropomorphic gold fish.
Susano no mikoto, Matoi, Sake no Zashiki, Niwaka Amenbou, Sarai Tonbi, Tamay Tamaya, Hyaku monogatari
You like them? You may get Kingyo Zukushi works at Museum shop of The National Museum, Tokyo. I have bags and letter set. : ) *
I've been thinking more about the poor Munch paintings. The Scream was stolen before, it was missing for a couple of years. The Scream is just a painting on paper, it's very fragile.
But Madonna is a bigger loss. Munch got excommunicated from the church for painting such an erotic Madonna. Munch had a very strange life. This painting has a very strange history. Poor beautiful Madonna, stolen away where nobody can see her.
My art school had a little Munch oil painting. It wasn't a big important Munch work, just a small landscape painting. I studied that painting a lot, and I enjoyed how he worked the oil paint. I learned a lot about painting from Munch.
Posted by: Charles | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 08:22 AM
I especially like Kuniyoshi's Cat Pictures.
Posted by: Charles | Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 12:20 PM