Tag: Munch

Did Munch have premonitions about the 20th century?

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    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/edvard-munch-beyond-the-scream-111810150/?all&no-ist

    Munch was much more prolific than many of us realise.ii feel he was psychic;that he foresaw the horrors to come.
    In particular,the situation in the Middle East now is a direct consequence of how Britain and France behave after W W 1 when they divided up the Ottoman empire.Most of the States there did not exist… and have never functioned very well.
    I wonder why Arabs seem to have been despised when they had a marvelloulsculture and invented algebra for example…societies rise and fall as the British Empire has done

The notes in the margins

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I’m finding Derrida de-structured
And Wittgenstein’s‘ mind makes me smile
Who would have conjectured
That one day I’d lecture
On thoughtfullness and all its trials?

I prefer Kierkegaard to Sartre
Who sometimes makes me feel  mere.
Who would have expected
That words would be texted
As men smoked cigarettes and drank beer?

Some people like reading Jane Austen
While others fight with Wittgenstein.
Who would have discarded
The notes in the margins?
So  strangely these words recombine.

Munch  had to paint people screaming,
his premonitions were strong
Who else would have expected
The human destruction
Europe brought to the world before long?

 

 

Munch was not only an artist
He was a philosopher too…
who else would have dreamed up
an image that screamed up;
a warning struck, out of the view.