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The New York Times this morning has a long article on the stolen paintings of Edvard Munch, most notably the iconic painting "The Scream." Copies of "The Scream" (there are apparently four versions, which I didn't know) have been stolen on two different occasions: in 1994, two thieves propped a…
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The Cry (or The Scream)
By Edvard Munch (1893)
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Many people think this painting depicts a man experiencing an existential crisis, but I disagree. I think it depicts a man whose computer just crashed and ate all his $#@%&@!! work!
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I offered them my inflatable scream as a substitute but they didn't even reply.
Do visit the Munch Museum in Oslo if you get a chance. His big colorful works are well-known. I'm more fascinated by the small plaster sketches for 3D works which never were completed. Most chilling are the emaciated, haunted people which one could swear must have had the Allies' photos as models after they finally got to Auschwitz. But these works were done a decade earlier...