Edvard Munch — "Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with r…"
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
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About Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Norwegian Expressionist painter whose The Scream (1893) became the iconic image of modern existential dread. Closely associated with James Ensor (Belgian Expressionist peer) and Egon Schiele (younger Expressionist heir). For an intellectual contrast, see Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist (1841-1919) — Munch and Renoir were exact contemporaries painting the same Belle Époque from opposite emotional poles — Renoir's dappled-light bourgeois pleasure and Munch's anxiety-soaked bourgeois terror are the late-19th-century painting's two halves. The same world; the cleanest emotional inversion.
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A metaphorical connection between the darkness of death and the light of artistic creation.
Date: Early 20th Century
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