“The existentialist frankly states that man is in anguish. The sadness within Munch’s life can be seen to have affected his work. Their leader, Hans Jæger, taught Munch about modernism, and encouraged him to paint about the longings and anxieties of the individual. Around 1889 he became involved with the Kristiania (as Christiania was spelled at this point) bohemians, a group of radical anarchists. He studied under Christian Krohg, Norway’s leading artist at the time, and his early influences were French Realist painters. He was encouraged to be culturally active, and he used his art to express his feelings about his experiences. His mother and older sister both died of tuberculosis, while the only one of his siblings to marry died soon after the event. He was the son of a military doctor and nephew of a Norwegian historian. Munch was born in 1863 and grew up in Norway’s capital Christiania, now called Oslo. The Scream can be analysed in terms of the context of its initial production and the life of the artist.
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