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Edvard Munch Paintings:
"I was walking along the
road with two friends. The sun was setting. I
felt a breath of melancholy - Suddenly the sky
turned blood-red. I stopped, and leaned against
the railing, deathly tired - looking out across
the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a
sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends
walked on - I stood there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through
nature."
by Edvard Munch
(written in his journal in 1892. His painting
The Scream along with three other paintings he
created were recently stolen from the Munch gallery
in Oslo, Norway)
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The Scream |
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1893 |
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Oil, 37 7/8" x 30 5/8" |
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Collection:
National Gallery, Oslo |
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The Scream |
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1893 |
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Oil, 37 7/8" x 30 5/8" |
The Scream:
An agonized figure wails against
a blood red Oslofjord skyline
in Edvard Munch's The Scream
(1893), National Gallery,
Oslo.The Scream (Skrik, 1893)
is a seminal expressionist
painting by Norwegian artist
Edvard Munch. Regarded by
many as his most important
work, it is said by some to
symbolize modern man taken
by an attack of existential
angst. The landscape in the
background is Oslofjord, viewed
from the hill of Ekeberg.
The Norwegian word skrik is
usually translated as "scream",
but is cognate with the English
shriek. Occasionally, the
painting has been called The
Cry.
Click here
to find out more about The
Scream
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