The Girl by the Window

Ladies and gentlemen, today is DailyArt's second birthday! Thank you very much for being with us all this time. It is our pleasure to serve one piece of art everyday to such a fantastic audience.
- DailyArt Team

Maybe it is not the best painting to celebrate DailyArt's second birthday, but I really love Munch's works. Unfortunately, the truth is that Edvard Munch led a difficult life. He was a hopeless alcoholic who checked himself in and out of various sanatoriums; he never married, and he was shot in the left hand by Tulla Larsen, one of his mistresses, when he attempted to end their affair.

Several Munch pictures in the show combine claustrophobic interior spaces with human forms. The Girl by the Window offers a vulnerable young woman in a white nightgown cautiously peering out of a dark room at night, lit only by a window across the street. The deep shadows suggest the threat of a top-hatted man looming over her.