Edvard Munch is considered the pioneer of the expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognized in Germany and Central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different artistic movement, which helped artists express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them. Munch was born in 1863, and in a short time had come to know the intensity of emotional pain. His father was a doctor who often brought patients to the Munch home. His mother died when Edvard was five, his older sister died of illness at the age of fifteen, and Edvard himself was often ill. One of his younger sisters was also diagnosed with mental illness at an early age. Since death and illness were important elements in his life, he felt the need to find a way to express it. After a year at a technical school to study engineering, Munch devoted himself to his artwork. He left technical school and entered a drawing school. In 1886 he produced the painting entitled The Sick Child, inspired by the death of his sister Sophie. Munch produced the image six times in oils and twice in prints, slowly developing the technique that gave the final, intensely textured and dark painting. People. . Most of my subsequent works owe their existence to this painting. An example of his changed style is the 1912 painting, "Galloping Horse". He never completed this project and in 1930 he began having eye problems. The paintings caused such a shock that the exhibition was closed. In 1893, Munch painted "Vampire", which creates a motif of vulgarity and deception. Munch was an extremely powerful painter as he was able to communicate his emotions and his deepest thoughts through his work...... middle of the sheet...... Flowering and Dissolution of Love, Anguish of Life and Death. The eleven paintings - "The Kiss", "Madonna", "Ashes", "Dance of Life", "Melancholy", "Red Virginia Creeper", "The Scream", "Death in the Infirmary", "Puberty" , "Moonlight" and "The Sick Child" are as moving today as they were a hundred years ago when the tunes were first conceived. Munch finished "The Scream" in 1893. It was a work of great personal significance for him. The painting was like the culmination of all the tragic and heartbreaking events of his life. When Munch was only five years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. Nine years later, at the age of 15, his favorite sister Sophie also dies of tuberculosis. Frequent illnesses prevented him from attending the technical institute in Christiania (Oslo). In 1889 he was struck by what was perhaps the greatest blow ever seen so far: his beloved father died.