I remember being stunned when I went to see the first Munch retrospective in New York City probably over twenty years ago. In those days I was thoroughly identified with the themes of his content perhaps best described as pictorially exploring "the modern life of the soul."
Munch's experience of the modern life of the soul is the intertwining of the themes of "birth, innocence, love, sexual passion, melancholy, anger, jealousy, despair, anxiety, illness, and death. "
Liner notes in the book of his paintings I bought summed up his purpose as Munch's attempt to "... pictorialize the extraordinary range of intense human passion."
Twenty plus years ago if asked the question of who am I - I might honestly have answered: I am all of the themes that Munch painted. I could and did easily slide between various intense emotions. I was philosophical about them - meaning I knew what they were - but my head was only able to watch and to experience the kaleidoscopic roller coaster of my emotional self that once triggered seemed to have a life of its own quite apart from my mental self.
Thus it is noteworthy that some twenty plus years later my reaction to Munch's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art was similar but vastly different from my first visit.
I was immediately gripped by one of his spell binding self portraits. I felt as if Munch - the man and the painter - was looking directly into my eyes. I felt the force of his powerful personality alive and full of presence.
As I moved from painting to painting I was aware of the same content that had so moved me in my past but this time there was something even more, commanding my attention. I was struck by the integrity of each set of images. I vibrated to the recognition that content was being carefully processed through structure and form.
I experienced the rhythm, the design, the sense of balance between the various parts of each painting. I was able to experience the essence of what he was trying to get across.
The notes on the wall next to the pictures repeated Munch's idea that the landscapes, the people, the houses, the trees, the sky whatever are merely the starting point for the true artist. More important it is what the painter and by extension the viewer brings to the "objective" content that constitutes the real essence of the painting.
In my work as a psychoanalyst I know that personally and professionally a good reality check is for me or my patient - or anyone for that matter - to simply describe their experience of their external reality be it in an enclosure like a living room, or in gazing at a backyard and beyond.
Once the verbal painting is compete - then apply what has been described to the inner reality of ones internal self. Such an exercise inevitably captures the emotional essence of what is being perceived.
As I moved from painting to painting I was further struck by the persistence of Munch to keep pressing to not only paint at all but to paint his way and on top of it to keep stretching, exploring, and inventing -reaching wider and deeper to convey that which was most near and dear to him.
Further he did all of this despite formidable external and internal obstacles. This force of character is for me the essence of spirituality. It is the embodiment of what I refer to as a grounded faith which endures in the midst of perpetual chaos and inevitable death and enables the possessor of such power to transcend the natural limitations of time and space.
After I walked outside MOMA I thought it would no doubt be a delightful experience to meet Munch - the man - and go out for a beer and just hang out. Who knows - maybe in the next Karma or whatever....
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