Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — an 1893 expressionist painting so famous it has its own emoji — contains a disturbing ... which has now become a universal symbol for mortal anxiety, ...

Edvard Munch, who never married, ... Despair, Anxiety, Death in the Sickroom and The Scream, which he painted in 1893. His style varies dramatically during this period, ...

Edvard Munch's paintings were shaped by both anxiety, that stemmed in part from a virus as well as illness and death, and a salutary appreciation of nature. When he was five, his mother died of ...

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a ... Best known for his iconic work "The Scream," Munch's oeuvre delves deep into themes of love, anxiety, death, and existential dread.

Edvard Munch was distraught over a love affair when he had the vision that became the iconic painting. ... The 1895 artwork — a modern symbol of human anxiety — was sold at Sotheby's.

More recently, in August 2004, another version of The Scream was stolen at gunpoint from the Edvard Munch Museum, along with Munch’s erotic Madonna. These paintings are still missing.

Munch’s anxious, melancholic figures aren’t hard to spot. “Sickness, anxiety, and death,” he wrote, “were the black angels that guarded my cradle,” and he is seen to have expressed ...

"Edvard Munch: Technically ... and the tightly wound anxiety for which he’s best known. Advertisement. Edvard Munch, “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” 1899, printed circa 1917.

The Yale University Art Gallery’s “Munch and Kirshner: Anxiety and Expression” exhibit, on view through June 23, highlights the artists’ works during existential crises.

See 70 works by renowned Norwegian-artist Edvard Munch at the Harvard Art Museums through July 27, in a new exhibition that shares recent discoveries about the artist’s materials and his highly ...