compare and contrast on art work Rodin & munch

Edvard Munch, who born in 12 December 1863 and died in 23 January 1944 was a Norwegian gifted painter and printmaker whose intense, redolent treatment of psychological and emotional themes was a major influence on the expansion of German Expressionism in the early twentieth century. One of his paintings “The Cry” that he made in 1893 is esteemed an icon of existential anguish.

His work was often about the symbolic portrayals of themes such as misery, sickness, and death. “The Cry”, is his most familiar painting which is in an anguished expression of isolation and fear.

Edvard Munch grew up in Christiania (now known as Oslo) and studied art under Christian Krohg, who was a Norwegian naturalistic painter. Munch's parents and siblings died while he was still young, which possibly explains the loneliness and pessimism of much of his work. Paintings such as “The Sick Child” (1886), “Vampire” (1893-94), and “Ashes” (1894) show his preoccupation with the darker facets of life.

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