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

Starry Night (1922-24)By the time Munch painted this he was no longer simply trying to create stark symbols of psychic states as he did in his paintings of the 1890s and 1900s. Nature now moved him in itself, not just as a correlative of his inner mood. You can really feel the cold Scandinavian night, can imagine walking those starlit fields towards the glow of a town. Munch is brooding as much as ever, feeling his isolation as he stood out there in the chill, far from those friendly lights
Photograph: Ove Kvavik/Edvard Munch