In Photos: Edvard Munch Exhibition at the Met Museum, NYC

Weeping Nude (1913-14)The long hair that covers this woman’s face echoes similarly copious tangled locks in Munch’s visionary paintings of the 1890s such as Madonna and Ashes, revealing that he is still pursuing inner obsessions and indulging personal symbols of desire. Yet in this painting he projects his psychology on to reality, portraying a model from life, depicting a real moment of simple sorrow. It is a great nude painting that is at once sensual and tragic, voyeuristic and compassionate. Munch feels this woman’s pain even as he gets absorbed in her anguished beauty
Photograph: 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York./Munch Museum