Paintings by the artists Edvard Munch and John Singer Sargent (1918-19) tell us in real time what it was like to be stricken by the Spanish flu. Paintings by Edward Hopper (1940s and 50s) …

2020年5月5日 · These paintings, characterized by Munch’s obsession with existential drama, speak to feelings of trauma and despair that were widespread amid a pandemic that killed at …

2020年4月16日 · More than a century after it killed upwards of 17 million people around the world, the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, has come charging back into the public …

Given its destructive power, you might expect the flu of 1918 to be memorialized in art. It is, but art historians are still unraveling the connections. Thanks in part to the efforts of world leaders …

2020年5月18日 · Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s “Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu,” circa 1919. The 1918 influenza pandemic was a historic event with massive influence. Millions of people …

Title: Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu. Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, Løten 1863–1944 Ekely) Date: 1919. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 59 1/16 × 51 9/16 in. (150 × 131 cm) …

2020年5月22日 · In the last month there’s been a volley of writing looking for the 1918 Spanish flu’s impact on art. All start from the same enigma: the catastrophic damage wrought by this …

2020年10月14日 · This blog post focuses on a few artists who died in or survived the 1918 pandemic, and gives us the opportunity to look at some works of art in a virtual gallery …

Researchers using historic documentation, genetic evidence, and the unusual patterns of the “Spanish Flu,” have been working on the idea that the H1N1 virus that caused the pandemic …

2020年6月23日 · Following these events, artists began to express their creativity again and began creating art to make sense of the post-war and flu era as well as reflect on the events of the …