Land Lines: Reality Beyond Realism in the Paintings of Edvard Munch.

The article examines the reality behind the realism in the paintings of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Munch was born in Norway in 1863 the same years as the famous inaugural "Salon des Refusés" where artworks rejected by the jury of the Paris Salon were put on view. His most famous painting "The Scream" is described. He thought that the great cascade of birth, life, and death resonance with us at all times and that one job of painting was to communicate this reality.