In Photos: Edvard Munch Exhibition at the Met Museum, NYC

Sick Mood at Sunset, Despair (1892)The same wooden railing, the same sweeping perspective and even a very similar blood red smear of sky over the stain-like blot of the fjord – this painting visibly anticipates The Scream, which Munch was to picture for the first time in 1893. Here we see the suffering of humanity from the outside, not the inside. The difference between the two images reveals how radically Munch broke with the romantic tradition when he replaced this sympathetic figure of introspection with a symbolist howling ghoul
Photograph: 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York./Munch Museum