A Preliminary Analysis on the Painting "Death in the Ward" by Edvard Munch

Abstract

As an expressionist oil painter and printmaker in the 20th century, the works of Edward Monk (Edvard Munch) (1863.12.12-1944.1.23) are always full of elusive depression, negative sentiment from the brush strokes and colors, but this does not represent his ideological and spiritual decadence. As for death, Munch constantly explores in his own life, and he explores the "different paths" of life, trying to find a conceptual state of "the same return". His true records of his real mental state and inner appeal. This paper takes the work "Death in the Ward" as the starting point, analyzes and explains the reality of human fear, expresses his struggle directly, and at the same time shows the yearning for the eternal spirit of "life".