Thursday, June 1, 2017

Paintings from Norway

Edvard Munch
The Yellow Log
1912
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Vampire
1895
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Death in the Sickroom
1893
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

"Do you realize your trial is going badly?" asked the priest.

"It seems that way to me too," said K. "I've tried as hard as I can, but without any success so far.  Of course I haven't completed my petition yet."

"How do you imagine it will end," asked the priest.

"At first I thought it would surely end well," said K., "now sometimes I even have doubts myself. I don't know how it will end. Do you?"

"No," said the priest, "but I fear it will end badly. They think you're guilty. Your trial may never move beyond the lower courts. At least for the moment, your guilt is assumed proved."

"But I'm not guilty," said K. "It's a mistake. How can any person in general be guilty? We're all human, after all, each and every one of us."

"That's right," said the priest, "but that's how guilty people always talk."

"Are you prejudiced against me too?" asked K.

"I'm not prejudiced against you," said the priest.

"Thank you," said K. "But everyone else involved with the proceedings is prejudiced against me. And they instill it in those who aren't involved. My position is becoming increasingly difficult."

"You misunderstand the facts of the matter," said the priest. "The judgment isn't simply delivered at some point; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgment."

"So that's how it is," said K. and bowed his head. 

 from The Trial by Franz Kafka, originally published in 1925, translated by Breon Mitchell and published in English by Schocken Books in 1998

Edvard Munch
Jealousy
1906
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Red and White
1899-1900
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Madonna
1894
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Separation
1896
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
The Scream
1910
tempera on cardboard
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Train Smoke
1900
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Angst
1894
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
The Voice - Summer Night
1896
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Self-portrait with Bottle of Wine
1906
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Self-portrait in Hell
1904
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch
Self-portrait “à la Marat”
1908-09
photographic print
Munch Museum, Oslo