Ideas about what the world is made of — its constituent elements — were running riot when Edvard ... heart. Munch, explains the curator’s wall label, “believed that human pain and ...

As Western art’s most memorable utterance of existential pain, Edvard Munch’s The Scream is naturally understood as a ...

And much of what’s on display in “Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking” evokes pain and isolation. After all, two of the key pieces in the exhibit are named “Melancholy” and “Two Human ...

At his death, in 1944, Edvard Munch left hundreds of artworks to the city of Oslo—enough to fill a dedicated museum and then some. Because Munch had sold well during his long career, plenty more ...

We've got Edvard Munch all wrong, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. The common perception of the painter of "The Scream" is that he was an "angsty Nordic loner", a tortured soul isolated from his ...

Unfortunately, almost everyone has resonated at some time or other with Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893). So much so, it seems, that a recent investigation found that the legendary masterpiece ...

In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky ...