Love and Pain is an 1895 painting by Edvard Munch; it has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch. [1] The painting depicts a man and woman embracing, with the woman kissing the man on his neck. Munch painted six different versions of the same subject between 1893 and 1895.

He called it "Love and Pain" and it was only later that it picked up the name and interpretation of a man locked in a vampire's embrace. Munch maintained it was nothing more than a woman kissing a man on the neck.

2023年10月14日 · Learn more about Edvard Munch's Vampire (Love and Pain) painting and buy art prints online.

2019年1月23日 · Since its first appearance in Berlin in 1902 —part of the artist’s Frieze of Life, a series of paintings that depict secular scenes of human beings and nature—, Love and Pain has given rise to a number of interpretations, starting with that of a vampire and her victim.

Love and Pain (Vampire) is an Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Edvard Munch in 1895. It lives at the Munch Museum in Norway. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Femme Fatales and Mourning.

2024年12月12日 · For Munch, love was a contradictory feeling that combined gentleness and intimacy with pain, jealousy, and suffering. As one can read in the exhibition text of Munch Museum’s collection exhibition, Infinite: “ [Munch] once described it as a fight between two people.

2023年5月9日 · Edvard Munch first titled the picture Love and Pain. Is the woman kissing the man on the neck? Or is she sucking his blood? "And he laid his head against her breast, felt the blood rush through her veins. He listened to her heart. And when he hid his face in her breast he feøt two burning lips to his neckc-it sent a shudder through him."

2022年8月27日 · But one of the more striking works in the collection is ”Love and Pain,” otherwise known as “Vampire,” created between 1893 and 1894. In it, a red-haired woman can be seen sinking her mouth into the neck of a disconsolate-looking lover, her tresses streaming over him like poisonous tendrils.

2024年12月26日 · Munch was most likely observing the close relationship between love and pain (as the original title suggests). The sad truth is that love and suffering are often two sides of the same coin. It is precisely those we love who have the ability to wound us the most.

2020年3月31日 · Munch maintained that Love and Pain was simply a painting of a man and woman embracing. Although it is an ambiguous painting overall, I have a very simple interpretation. The painting is entitled Love and Pain. I believe the red haired woman represents love, and the dark haired man represents pain.