Edvard Munch Was More Than ‘The Scream’ - The Atlantic
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A new exhibition offers a counterpoint to The Scream.
E dvard Munch , 1863–1944, was a zeitgeist conductor. Like Dostoyevsky before him, like Kafka after him, he was one of those somewhat hastily assembled humans—the skull plates not stapled down, the nerve endings dangling—who get chosen by the daemon of history to bear its message into the world. Explore the September 2023 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More Poor bastard. “You paint like a pig, Edvard!” yelled a young realist named Gustav Wentzel, getting in Munch’s face at an 1886 exhibition in Kristiania (now Oslo) that featured his painting The Si
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