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’When the sun set, the sky suddenly grew blood red... on the blue-black fjord and over the city were blood and tongues of fire, my friends continued to walk along and I was still trembling with fear – and I heard a great unending scream ring through nature.’
Thus Munch wrote in his diaries before he painted THE SCREAM, a work whose intensity carried Symbolism to Expressionistic heights long before the Fauves and the artists of Die Brücke.”
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