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

The Artist and his Model (1919-21)Something has changed. Munch no longer wants to paint other people. He is particularly no longer drawn to desire. A model, by which is surely meant here a female model, implies an age-old game or drama between artist and muse. Munch however, balding and with his eyes screwed up myopically, has bitterly replaced such daydreams with the absurd joke of a ‘model’ that is just a scarecrow in a dressing gown. The wild bohemian days are gone. The artist is alone
Photograph: 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York./Munch Museum