Norwegian painter (1863–1944)
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The face in The Scream — agonized, hands-to-skull, mouth open against a blood-orange sky — is the single most recognized image of modern anxiety. Munch painted what he heard walking at sunset in Kristiania: "the enormous, infinite scream of nature."
Munch grew up under the twin shadows of illness and the fear he'd inherit the mental condition that ran in his family. At the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania, he fell in with nihilist Hans Jæger, who pushed him toward "soul painting" — rendering his own emotional and psychological state. Travel sharpened the tool: in Paris he absorbed Gauguin, van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec's command of color; in Berlin he painted Strindberg and began The Frieze of Life, a cycle on love, anxiety, jealousy, betrayal. Between 1893 and 1910 he made four versions of The Scream in paint and pastel, plu…
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By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
And I live with the dead – my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France]..
Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear.
Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. .There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained.
When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another.
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