Joolie Green's Art Gallery

Oil on canvas, 2013
25 x 20 cm
For Valentine’s Day!

When Edvard Munch commented on his ‘Madonna’, he directly addressed the figure in the painting, giving viewers insight into its intended significance: “The pause during which the entire world halts in its orbit. Your face embodies all the beauty of the world. Your lips, as crimson as a ripe fruit, are half open as if to express pain. A corpse’s smile. Here life and death shake hands. The chain that links thousands of past generations to the thousands to come has been meshed.”