山田維史の青空日記・遊卵画廊

Castration Anxiety of Edvard Munch,  1994            by Yamada Tadashi 山田維史「エドヴァルド・ムンクの去勢不安」　日本語初出『AZ』誌 1994年（新人物往来社）           Introduction      Edvard Munch is the greatest artist born in Norway and an important pioneer of German Expressionism. However, he was not recognized in his native country until he was over 50 years old. Munch's art was banished from his native country due to ridicule and incomprehension. He wandered around European cities for a long time. In that sense, he was a homeless person. Munch was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but the manifestation of schizophrenia is not unrelated to the loss of his homeland.      When Munch began his career as a painter in the 1880s, Western Europe was a place where old and new ideas were in conflict in every field, and the influence of this conflict extended to Scandinavia as well. Munch became a member of the young radical group...