Love and Pain

Love and Pain is a painting by Edvard Munch, It has also been called Vampire, though not by Munch who has been quite vocal about the misinterpretation. Munch painted six different versions of the subject in the period 1893–1895. The painting shows a woman with long flame-red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple embrace. Although others have seen in it "a man locked in a vampire's tortured embrace – her molten-red hair running along his soft bare skin". Munch himself always claimed it showed nothing more than "just a woman kissing a man on the neck".