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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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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