Edvard Munch
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"and we could see far,
far into heaven,

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"and saw angels float,
quietly smiling."

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Four of Granny's eight children
died before they were 16.

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Tell us about his work.
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Edvard Munch is a
very talented young painter.

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But he's more interested
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in painting light and shadow
than in social conditions.

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In 1884 Edvard Munch paints
this study of a servant girl,

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partly dressed, seated on the edge
of a rumpled bed.

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The sunlight dissolves
the colours and contours.

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There is a sense of softness,
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what Munch is to call later
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his "nervous dissolving
treatment of colour."

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Edvard, my brother, almost died too,
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from the same disease.

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