Edvard Munch

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I try to see life optimistically.

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We have different views on life.

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You seem a little gloomy.

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You seem weak,

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a little tired of life.

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A feeling of tension
and loneliness

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now enters the canvases
of Edvard Munch.

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People appear still,

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immobile...

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often as though helpless
in the face of nature.

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I don't want to kiss you.

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They looked at each other
without speaking.

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At that moment he had a feeling
that life's greatest happiness

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slipped from his grasp.

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There were tears in her eyes.

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Munch now prepares himself again
for the public and the critics,

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often in the introvert company
of Sigbjørn Obstfelder, the poet

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and Jorgen Sørensen,
the crippled artist.

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April 1889.

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Edvard Munch again faces the public.

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And, to show exactly where he stands
and what he stands for,

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exhibits everything
he has ever created:

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110 canvases and
innumerable drawings.

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Dominating the exhibition
is a huge canvas.

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Entitled Spring,