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Edvard Munch is a famous norwegian artist of Western painting. He had an influence on German expressionist movement. This movement developed early in the 20th century, and seeks to present the inner life of humanity rather than its outward appearance. Munch emphasized the subjectivity in his work, and externalized human emotions to the extreme. But he was suffered from alcoholism, depression, phobia, paranoid condition, and treated by a Danish psychiatrist. He was unhappy, gloomy and alone throughout his life. His consistent psychopathology was revealed into his great works, and originated in his early childhood psychic trauma induced by loss of his sick mother and elder sister. Munch mourning reaction continued all his life, but he sought to rescue himself by sublimatory his own creative work. Munch’s painting was the result loom his mental pain. He expressed directly his own fear, anxiety, depression including humility and paranoid ideation toward women and sexuality. Even though he was a tragic single man, Munch is now much spoken of an exceptional successful artist in Western painting.
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