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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, Pastel, and casein on
cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm |
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Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo |
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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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