Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is perhaps best known for his 1893 painting The Scream. The work seems to represent the spiritual anguish of living in the modern world through abstraction. It centers on a swaying corpselike figure, neither male nor female. Their eyes are wide, their mouth opened in perfect oval, and their hands desperately covering their ears. The undulating body echoes in the swirling lines of the blood-red sky. Yet Munch made a career of giving visual form to human emotion, and other famous works include The Kiss (1892), Anxiety (1894), Madonna (1894) and Ashes (1894).
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