Edvard Munch — "My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without i…"
My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship.
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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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Another statement on the inextricable link between his personal suffering and his artistic output.
Date: Early 20th Century
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