Edvard Munch is most famous for his 1893 painting 'The Scream', but it was an image he created six years later, which is his ...
The Norwegian painter is best known for his harrowing images of existential dread, most famously depicting what he called a ...
an emoji , the most expensive painting in the world and a gift to cartoonists. Both a profound expression of human suffering and an icon of kitsch, The Scream has somehow conquered the world.
It takes us beyond The Scream. It takes us beyond Munch as the painter of existential isolation and loneliness,” exhibition curator Alison Smith says.