At National Gallery, Edvard Munch’s ‘Prints’ reveal artist’s methodical process

With all his “Scream”-ing and “Vampire”-ism, we tend to think of Edvard Munch as the Neurotic from Norway. What’s harder to recognize is that those direct effusions from a tortured soul are, in fact, craftily organized constructions worked out over years, sometimes decades, until Munch had exhausted…








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