Despair ☵ Munch ☳ Art Print jungle and a woman and child

and a woman and child walk down a path to the bank

Signac's palette of blues

Patience Escalier

and The Scream are only a few of Munch's many depictions of that experience

The iconography suggested by these groupings follows the liturgy of All Saints' Day

Despair ☵ Munch ☳ Art Print jungle and a woman and childDespair (1894) by Edvard Munch is one of several works of similar composition depicting the Oslo fjord, the most famous of which being The Scream. The works relate back to a very strong experience of his when going for a walk at sunset. The setting sun suddenly turned the clouds red: "the sunset was particularly vivid red, red as blood, coagulated like blood." Despair, Anxiety, and The Scream are only a few of Munch's many depictions of that