Edvard Munch — "To be an artist is to live with doubt."
To be an artist is to live with doubt.
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"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."
"When I painted, I was a master. I felt that I dominated him, who dominated me."
"The Scream was painted in a time of great emotional turmoil. I was walking along the road at sunset, and the sky turned blood red. I felt an infinite scream pass through nature."
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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.