
Madonna
1894 · National Gallery (Oslo), Oslo
Munch gave the Madonna a red halo, closed eyes and parted lips, and made desire and death the same subject.
★ 6.8

Munch gave the Madonna a red halo, closed eyes and parted lips, and made desire and death the same subject.

A dark-suited oarsman fills the foreground with his back while the water rises behind with no horizon, a design taken from Japanese prints.

The same bridge and the same burning sky as the Scream, but with a whole crowd coming toward you instead of one figure.