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WHAT GREAT PAINTINGS SAY

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The wide, unblinking throng of corpse-like figures crowding out of the canvas of Edvard Munch's 1892 work must surely have unnerved viewers when it was exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1902. Indeed, the Norwegian artist had form when it came to shocking his audiences: in 1892, his exhibition on behalf of the

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