Edvard Munch — "To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more…"
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
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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.