Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked …

Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked …

The themes in the series ranged from love and death, sex, anxiety, infidelity, jealousy and the stages of life, and included the famous painting The Scream. Munch never married. The dark ambiance of The …

The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch The Sick Child, 1885 by Edvard Munch The Sick Child (Norwegian: Det Syke Barn) records a moment before the death of his older sister Johanne Sophie …

Spring Day on Karl Johan Street Evening on Karl Johan Street The Mystery of a Summer Night The Scream Vampire The Storm Starry Night

The Dance of Life, 1899 by Edvard Munch The Dance of Life, 1899 by Edvard Munch A distinction can be drawn between those of Munch's imaginative works that are directly symbolic, like Jealousy, and …

Vampire, 1893 by Edvard Munch Vampire, 1893 by Edvard Munch The truth is, Munch did not title this painting "Vampire." He called it "Love and Pain" and it was only later that it picked up the name and …

His images of existential dread, anxiety, loneliness and the complex emotions of human sexuality have become icons of our era. Many of us know such images as The Scream, Anxiety, Melancholy, …

This painting draws on two earlier departures: the anxious humanity moving forward as if driven by ominous elemental forces, as first conceived in Evening on Karl Johan Street; and a certain view of …

Compared with The Scream, however, this work is still more symbolist than expressionist - the raw power of the latter hidden under the great beauty of the blue night sky and the glowing lamps, a …