Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting “The Scream” became the universal image of high anxiety for generations thereafter, and a work so famous that it eclipsed much of his later work, though there was another half century of it.
Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has just opened an exhibition devoted to the concluding decades of the Norwegian artist’s career, which lasted until his death in 1944.
Called “After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch,” the show presents 62 canvases, many of them decidedly less morbid in theme than his obsessive works on love and death. At 40, Munch underwent eight months of treatment in a clinic and thereafter led a less anxious life, especially after buying a country estate called Ekely, his home for 28 years and his last residence.
The museum is also showing “The Color Yellow,” 30 works by the much-admired schizophrenic and alcoholic African-American artist Beauford Delaney, who died in 1979 after a four-year stay in an insane asylum.
Both exhibitions are up through May 5 at the High, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E.; telephone 404-733-4400; www.high.org.
Louvre gets religion
The Louvre in Paris has opened an exhibition of 16th Century realistic and life-sized terra cotta religious statues from Le Mans’ Maine region of France.
It includes what can only be called loving images of the Virgin Mary and child, as well as a number of very beautiful female saints. The show closes May 27 at the Louvre, 49 rue Etienne Marce; www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm.
