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"I look. I look.
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"I must have come to the wrong globe.
Everything is so strange."
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In late 1893, using pastel
on a base of cardboard,
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Edvard Munch creates The Shriek.
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December 1893.
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A gallery on
the Unter den Linden in Berlin.
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Edvard Munch's 24th exhibition.
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Amongst the works exhibited,
are 5 of his Life Frieze,
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listed in the catalogue
under the title
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Studies for a Series on Love.
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I placed the paintings together
and it was as though
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each painting was connected
to the others.
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Then there came a tone, a musical tone
linking the pictures together.
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So, if a relationship between
two people is to be sound
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and I think it can be so
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even if not forever,
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it must be based
on mutual regard,
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on tolerance.
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In the words of Oskar Kokoschka,
the Austrian Expressionist painter,
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"It was given to Edvard Munch's
deeply probing mind
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"to diagnose
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"panic dread
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"in what was apparently
social progress."
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One member of the public
writes in his catalogue
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that the exhibition is
"the world's greatest swindle.
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"Junk! Take it all
the insane asylum."