Edvard Munch — "When I painted, I was a master. I felt that I dominated him, who dominated me."
When I painted, I was a master. I felt that I dominated him, who dominated me.
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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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Describing the power dynamic and sense of control he felt while painting his doctor.
Date: Early 20th Century (likely during or after his sanitarium stay around 1908-1909)
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