To Symbolic Drawings – Through the Sketchbook

The 200+ sketchbooks have a variety of techniques by the artist, i.e. realistic location drawings, farms and homes in the country, and the beginning of symbolic drawings, and compositions. Plus, drawings done when travelling.

Pencil.

Artist: Edvard Munch.

Many Sketchbooks at the Munch Museum.

Note: Use of the images must be obtained by contacting Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society.

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.