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How can a young man who looks
so nice create things like this?
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One can't take one's family along
and enjoy the art.
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I'm not an advocate of censorship
but why should things like this be exhibited?
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After all, children might see them.
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Edvard Munch returns to Berlin.
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Abroad, people will wonder
what sort of morals we have.
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It's not just ugly.
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He paints such unpleasant things,
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things one doesn't speak of,
at least my husband and I.
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I regard this as something
which must come to an end.
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In late November,
Peter Andreas Munch,
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now married for six months,
writes to his family,
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"I can't stand life anymore,"
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and 3 weeks later is dead.
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Many of Munch's contemporaries
now rally to his support,
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realizing that his art is probing
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into a new and revolutionary
understanding of the human psyche.
1:05:24
Munch seeks peculiarity,
mystery in everything he sees.
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He sees the world in
wave-lines, trees,
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shorelines, female hair,
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trembling bodies.
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Like no other Norwegian painter
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Munch aims at making
our innermost tremble.
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Working on the theme
of the staring, isolated faces
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in his oil on canvas Anxiety,
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Munch now turns to the final of the
graphic arts that he is to conquer: