I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
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"I wanted to show that behind the outer facade of human beings, there is a whole world of emotions and thoughts."
"The viewer should feel the pain, the joy, the love, the hate, the fear, the horror."
"I believe in the art that heals."
"The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing."
"I do not paint what I see, but what I saw."
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.
The extensive diary entry detailing the experience that inspired 'The Scream'.
Date: January 22, 1892 (diary entry)
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