Vampires in 1902?

[Patti Feinberg]

Watching Jeopardy the other night, the topic was Art, and the clue was: (and you're seeing the painting):

Name the artist who painted this (and to my extremely untrained eye, it just looked like a blob) portrait titled: "Vampire" in 1902. Wow!!!

Two thing: first, does anyone know what painting I'm refering to? I did not know there was any interest in vampires, et al at the turn of the Twentieth Century!!

Secondly, does anyone know of other 'pop culture' items again turn of twentieth regarding 'creatures of the night'?

Patti

[Raineypark]

Edvard Munch did a painting entitled "Vampire" at the turn of the 20th Century.  I'm guessing that's the one you're referring to.

Munch also painted the work known as "The Scream"

[Gothick]

Patti, vampires were big business in 1902.  I believe the first stage dramatization of Dracula was around this time; Melies made some vampire themed films, and of course, the novel Dracula, originally published in 1897, continued to sell briskly.  Vampires figured in the early 19th century paintings of Henry Fuseli, and a big bestseller during the "penny dreadful" craze of the 1840s was the very long thriller, Varney the Vampire (which includes some themes familiar to DS viewers, such as a mysterious old portrait to which the vampire bears a curious resemblance).  Moving forward a bit, some readers feel that the best vampire tale of all remains the novella, Carmilla, by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu.  It has been filmed several times and was first published in 1871!

Arencha glad ya asked!

G.

[Patti Feinberg]

Melies made some vampire themed films,

Gothick....what's melies?

and of course, the novel Dracula, originally published in 1897

Dracula wasn't published until 1897???

Varney the Vampire

Alright....I'll bite...what in the world is Varney the Vampire??

Arencha glad ya asked!

You betcha and thanks!

Patti

[Raineypark]

Gothick....what's melies?
Patti

George Melies was an important French pioneer of early Cinema.

If you're interested in more about him, just "Google" him.....

[D_Friedlander]

I found the Edvard Munch painting referred to here:

http://www.calarts.edu/~rjaster/edvard-munch/gallery/love/vampire.htm

Not a blob, and, upon closer inspection, not exactly the picture of a vampire either.  The original title was "Love and Pain"--- a woman with long, flowing red hair clasps her (apparently) dejected lover and the hair drapes over his neck suggesting a vampire bite.  Which, I suppose, would have appealed to Munch.  As his work tends to show, he was a VERY unhappy man with LOTS of issues.