The Oslo outsider: two recent museum exhibitions, in New York and London, provided opportunities to view Edvard Munch's work in depth and to consider the factors that continue to prevent a full appreciation of his artistic achievement.

From: Art in America | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Schwabsky, Barry | Copyright information

The Scream has not been the only Munch painting recently missing from Oslo. But this is not another case for the police--rather, it's good news for anyone who cares to understand the roots of modern painting. Edvard Munch has always been acknowledged as one of the greatest graphic artists of all time, and a few of his paintings, mostly from the first decade or so of his career, have become widely known in reproduction--in the case of The Scream, so famous as to have become, like th...

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