In addition to mastering emotional expression (see: The Scream), Edvard Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944, also painted physical afflictions. A new exhibition at his namesake museum in Oslo, showcases Munch’s eerie obsession with medicine, hospitals, sickness, and death, and features period objects such as a baby incubator, glass sputum bottles, a vaccine certificate, archival photographs, and nursing badges. The exhibition is a memento mori in and of itself—just as Munch intended. —Carolina de Armas
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Edvard Munch: Lifeblood
Edvard Munch, On the Operating Table, 1902–03.
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Photo: Edvard Munch Museum
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