Not every medium can express the full range of human emotions or feelings in the same way. Some forms of art show what is visible on the surface level, while others have the capability to bring forth ...

At night, even when I get into bed and close my eyes, my heart feels restless and I cannot sleep. An anxiety with no clear reason grows only in the dark room. It is not something worth talking to ...

At the back of the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory, which opened at the artist’s eponymous museum in Oslo this month (until 11 October) is a gigantic pair of beige canvases—on which ...

One of only two public commissions Edvard Munch ever completed is marred by nicotine and chocolate. For the past century, his 12 monumental paintings depicting bucolic life have hung in the workers’ ...

If your great-grandparents ever saw "The Scream," they probably experienced a slightly different painting than the one we see today. Edvard Munch used materials that make his paintings vulnerable to ...

Edvard Munch stands as a titan of modern art, a progenitor of Expressionism whose psychological depth and technical innovation have cemented his place in the global cultural canon. His market presence ...

“Disease and insanity were the black angels on guard at my cradle,” wrote Norway’s greatest painter, Edvard Munch, recalling his tormented, sickly childhood. His mother died when he was four, and his ...

Expressionist painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was born in Loten, Norway. He perhaps is best known for “The Scream” (1893), a painting that reveals his anxiety, alcoholism, and depression. He was ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. Aggie Wiggs, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, is living in a home that is ...

Edvard Munch, “The Scream” (1895), lithograph in black on heavy white wove paper, 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 (Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz Jr., © 2013 The Munch Museum ...