Edvard Munch — "No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will pa…"
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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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 declaration of his artistic shift towards emotional and psychological themes, moving away from conventional genre scenes.
Date: 1889 ('St. Cloud Manifesto')
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