Edvard Munch nature." He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again." In summing up the painting's effects, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: "Whistler's Mother", Wood's "American Gothic", Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" have all achieved something that most paintings—regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value—have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every
The Kiss (Munch painting) to the similarity of the room in "The Kiss" to Munch's own, as represented in "Night in Saint-Cloud", art critic Ulrich Bischoff considers the painting to have an autobiographical element. "The Kiss" was exhibited in 1903 at Munch's show "Love's Awakening", paired with a copy of his "Madonna". The painting is now part of the collection of the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway; the museum is dedicated to Munch and his works. Another prominent painting in western art history that is commonly referred to as "The Kiss" was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1907. The Kiss (Munch painting) The Kiss