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Munch's The Scream: The Sunset, the Sound, and the Painting That Named Modern Anxiety
Edvard Munch walked along a path above the Oslofjord one evening in January 1892. The sun was setting. The clouds, he wrote in his diary, turned 'blood-red.' His two companions kept walking. Munch stopped at the railing, exhausted, and felt 'an infinite scream passing through nature.' He painted that moment four times between 1893 and 1910. The first painted version is the one the world knows. The Scream is, after the Mona Lisa, the most reproduced painting in Western art. Mo
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