A silent scream- Munch in Orsay
Life, love and death do feature in all of his works: From haunted portraits, to scenes of domestic dramas, from images of vampire women, and melancholic depictions of disease and death, Munch is an obsessive painter, returning again and again to the same ideas, the same motifs. There is something irresistibly human in his grappling with love and death. His work is urgent, existential, intense.
Exhibition review: A second of eternity
Next onto installations: in one room, a perpetually playing piano looks like it is played by an invisible man, while helium balloons float and dance through the room, in Philippe Parreno’s “My room is a fishbowl”. Some balloons, probably recently added, hang close to the ceiling, out of reach and out of bonds while some have dropped close to the floor
Exhibition Review- Cherry Blossoms
Close-up, the mark-making is very visible, each colourful blossom a thick smudge of paint, like a crossover between Claude Monet’s nympheas and Jackson Pollock’s exuberant paintings.