Myths and legends impressionsism

I didnt know munch painted myths and legends.

well he painted the scream, the madonna, and some mythical stuff. so yeah.

How are the Scream and the Madonna mythical?

...or Impressionist?

Its almost a contradiction. Impressionism was concerned with painting "the next moment in time" and was concerned with doing it with economy.

What about redon's cyclops then?

What farmerman already said. Supernatural or religious connotations weren't thaught by impressionist painters to be necessary in their art at all.

Much's style in some of his paintings could be called "impressionist style verging on pointillism", though he only pointed really very few like that.

Thats horrid.

Ok well google image search redon, and tell me that they arent meant to be mythical.

Some are.
Was he deeply disturbed as a child?

I think, Redon belongs to symbolism but not to impressionism?

ArtLex

His style is Impressionist.

Redon and Munch weren't Impressionists

The impressionists painted landscapes and people in contemporary settings, they were reacting against the mythological content of older art

Redon's style may be loose and colourful but it is fantasy and not based on a moment in time or observation of actual events as Impressionism is, so not impressionist at all I'm afraid. Walter explains his art in the link above.

Munch abstracts figures in paintings like the Scream and it's Expressionist.

2 totally different art movements with different ideas behind them and different ways of painting.

Thats a fact Jack!

The Scream isn't mythical - it is the landscape that is screaming by the way and the figure is frozen in horror.

Munch painted a nude portrait of a young girl who looks about 11 or 12, that hangs in Edinburgh Museum of Modern Art, that made me deeply uncomfortable, The girl looks uncomfortable, even distressed, sitting naked on a bed - it felt strongly as though it had been painted by a paedophile. I'd never liked Munch's work much but that was the nail in the coffin. Purely a personal reaction that, not art history

Are you referring to 'Puberty' (Age of uncertainty) .... but that is in Oslo, in the National Gallery.

It is one in their collection but I don't know the title - I tried to google for it but it doesn't appear to be online your title doesn't ring a bell, so I think it is definitely a different painting,

Is that one disturbing in the same way?

I couldn't bear to stay looking at it, it really made me uncomfortable, the paedophile vibes were strong.

At least it's the same theme you described - a quite famous painting, btw (and not only, because Munch was my artist for the final exams in ar at school :wink: ).

No, I don't think it has anything paedophile in it, just shows a shy girl of 11, 12 in her uncertainness of becoming mature.