Edvard Munch — "My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable…"
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art.
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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 strong assertion of the integral role of his suffering in his identity and artistic creation.
Date: Early 20th Century
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