Edvard Munch

The Scream — anxiety made visible

The painter who gave anxiety its image. The Scream — a figure on a bridge, mouth open, sky blood-red — is the most iconic image of existential dread in modern art. The Frieze of Life cycle explored love, fear, death, and melancholy with an unflinching expressionism that influenced the entire German Expressionist movement.

Key works

• The Scream1893— Modern anxiety's most famous image
  National Museum, Oslo / Munch Museum, Oslo
• The Frieze of Life1893-1918— Love, anxiety, death — a cycle of being
  Munch Museum, Oslo (various components)

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