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Primarily known for his masterpiece ‘The Scream,’ Edvard Munch is regarded as a figural painter whose varied themes of love, anxiety, longing and death are thought to have been developed from a troubled, traumatic childhood. Like his near-contemporary Vincent van Gogh, Munch strove to create a connection between the subject (as he himself observed in the world around him) and the personal lens of his own psychological, emotional and/or spiritual perception. What many are not aware of, however, is that Munch was equally innovative, in a lesser known aspect of his work, with his use of color. After scouring through endless science and theosophist-philosophical writings on the science of color itself, Munch came to revere the notion that color was not merely decorative, but could illicit visual, emotional and physical effects. Please join us as we explore the many facets of Edvard Munch’s decades-long painting career to eventually become one of the most controversial, yet renowned, Expressionist-Symbolist artists of the early 20th C.