Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand By Edvard munch
Art
The child's mental world is one of many themes in Munch's art around the turn of the century, and children from the coastal village of sgrdstrand became an important group motif. Here Munch has placed four of the neighbors' children facing forwards against the yellow wall of his small house in sgrdstrand. The children are portrayed with a child-like trust in their expression. Most of the time, Munch painted children without their parents, as if he was remembering his own family. The children in the paintings were alone, as was Munch himself. His mother died when the artist was five years old; his father was withdrawn and distant.
