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Dark lord; Edvard Munch.(Biography)

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The artist through his own eyes

EDVARD MUNCH may be just too familiar for his own good. Are you looking for an off-the-peg image of alienation? Reach for "The Scream". Searching forthat archetypal image of the sulky, fin-de-siecle symbolist temptress? Pick Munch's "Madonna".

Munch may be on many a teenager's bedroom wall, but there is much that we don't know about Norway's greatest cultural export. Which is why a new show at London's Royal Academy of Arts is such a revelation. Munch was an obsessive self-portraitist. From teenage years to deathbed he made and re-made his own image with a feverish intensity. And his portraits offer a clear view ...

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