Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was a prolific yet troubled artist. He expressed his preoccupation with illness, sexuality, and religion, through intensely colored, semi-abstract, mysterious works. Following the triumph of French Impressionism, Munch took up more graphic sensibilities, and became one of the most controversial and eventually renowned artists among a new generation of Expressionist and Symbolist painters. Munch came of age during the Art Nouveau movement and its focus on all things organic and mysterious. In keeping with these motifs, but straying from their decorative applications, Munch treated the visible as a window into disturbing human psychology. (The Art Story)