Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
Faculty of Humanities
Autumn 2013
Date: December 6th
Written examination
Subject: KUN2005E – Edvard Munch
Number of Hours: 4
The Exam consists of 6 pages
Part I: Essay (approximately three hours):
Please answer one of the two following questions:
1. Write an essay about Munch’s representation of masculinity before and after 1900. Include an
analysis of the following works as part of your discussion: Vampire (1893), Self-Portrait with
Cigarette (1895) and Bathing Men (1907). You can also mention other works, like his paintings of
workers.
2. Discuss Munch’s early career and his stylistic and thematic developments and shifts from
Morning (1883), via The Sick Girl (1885-6) till The Scream (1893). Analyze these three works as
part of your discussion. (You can also include other works in the discussion). What and who
influenced Munch in these years?
(You will find images of the artworks on the next pages)
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Munch, Vampire, 1893
Munch, Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895
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Munch, Bathing Men - Manhood, 1907
Munch, Morning, 1884
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Munch, Sick Girl, 1885-86
Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The Scream, 1893
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Part II: Knowledge questions (approximately one hour):
Please answer four of the seven following questions:
1. What is understood by Edvard Munch's so-called “horse-cure/kill-or-cure treatment”?
2. What happened at The Berlin Exhibition of 1892 at the Verein Berliner Künstler?
3. What is understood by the notion Frieze of Life?
4. What was Munch’s most important monumental project? Describe the main elements and ideas
behind it.
5. What is understood by “Pultosten”?
6. What is understood by Zum schwarzen Ferkel?
7. Picture identification: which picture is this (title, date, and medium)? Please, also include a
short analysis of it.
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