Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement. At an early stage of his career, Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new movement in art. Munch and many artists of the time needed to express their feelings about all the societal change that was happening.
             Munch was born in Norway in 1863. He was the son of an Army Medical Corp doctor who frequently brought patients home. His mother died when he was only five years of age. His oldest sister died of disease at the age of fifteen. Edvard himself was often ill. One of his youngest sisters was also diagnosed with a mental illness at an early age. With death and illness as a major factor in his life he turned that into his own work. After a year at Technical school to study engineering, Munch became dedicated to his artwork. He left Technical school and entered into a school of design.
             Sometime in 1886, he produced the painting titled "The Sick Child." In this painting, his thoughts of the death of his older sister were let out and they were rather haunting. Around this same year, Munch finished a series of paintings titled The Sick Child. In this same year when all this occurred another catastrophe happened in Munch's life, the death of his father. After having a one-man exhibition at Oslo, he managed to gain state scholarships, which enabled him to move to France. He had a way with French Impressionist techniques and while living in Paris he explored a way of painting that would focus on the art symbolism and expressing of emotions through applications of paint and certain techniques.
             Munch had a series of paintings that were exhibited in a major art show in Berlin. The series was entitled The Frieze of Life, all six of these paintings caused such shock that the show was forced to shut down. Munch had so many feelings, passions, anguish, stress, sorrow, and pain in his paintings that people just didn't understand w...