Edvard Munch — "Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. . There is an …"
Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. . There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foolish to deny the existence of the soul.
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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 philosophical reflection on existence, the irrational, and the soul, likely from his notes or diaries.