Edvard Munch
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Being married is the only possibility
you women have of surviving.

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You simply can't exist without a man.
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If we leave you, you fall like ninepins.
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The year 1893.
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There is a general strike in Belgium,
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serious riots
suppressed by the police.

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Hermann Göring is born.
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And Peter Iljich Tchaikovsky dies.
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Not the slightest artistic tradition
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or affinity with accepted artistic ideals
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can be found in Blunch
or his colleagues.

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Here, in the Germany
of Kaiser Wilhelm II,

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Edvard Munch begins work on the
subjective image of a naked woman,

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seen as from the viewpoint of
her partner in sexual intercourse.

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Around her head,
the halo of a Madonna.

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For his exterior model,
Munch uses Dagny Juell.

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1893.
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An army bill increases the size
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of the German armed forces.
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An anarchist bomb
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explodes in the Paris
Chamber of Deputies.

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When he breathed it felt
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as though his chest had come loose
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and all his blood would pour out
through his mouth.

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Jesus Christ!
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Strindberg has posed
to Munch the question,

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"What is jealousy?"
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and has answered

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