Munch – Venus (1904–05) | Expressionist Female Nude Study

Munch’s Venus strips the classical goddess of idealized beauty, presenting instead a spectral, vulnerable nude bathed in sickly pallor. The figure seems to materialize from—or dissolve into—the oppressive darkness surrounding her, embodying the artist’s anxious meditation on desire and mortality.

Artist	Edvard Munch
Year	Unknown
Category	Abstract
Medium	Oil on canvas
Licence	CC0 Public Domain
Resolution	2 559 × 1 307 px
Format	JPEG
File Size	~1.7 MB