MunchFear, desperation, and death: Painting as an act of self-liberation For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive. The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:
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Åsgårdstrand background Berlin Sezession blue Bohemians brush-strokes Burning Cigarette Christian Krohg Christiania cm Munch Museum cm National Gallery cm Rasmus Meyer Collection in Bergen colours column of moonlight contrast Dance dark Death dress EDVARD MUNCH face figure foreground frame Frits Thaulow Gerhard Munthe Gilles Néret hall Hans Heyerdahl Harry Kessler HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC HENRI MATISSE horizontal Hvitsten Ibsen's Jensen-Hjell Karl Johan Kragerø landscape large-format later Linde Frieze Linde's lines Lübeck Madonna Max Linde motifs Munch painted Munch's art murals Nordstrand Norwegian Oil on canvas Oslo National Gallery painter Paris Peer Gynt picture portrait Puberty Rasmus Meyer Collection Rathenau Reinhardt Frieze Rue Lafayette Salon des Indépendants scene Scream seen Self-portrait with Burning Sezession shadow shows Sick Child Sister Inger spatial Stages of Woman standing Summer at Åsgårdstrand Summer Night Three Stages tion trees vertical wall Walther window women yellow young