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
Susanne Munch Thore Susanne Munch Thore Susanne Elise Munch Thore (born 1960) is a Norwegian lawyer and businesswoman. After serving as a partner (managing partner from 2011) at the legal firm Wikborg Rein from 1993, she was appointed director at Odfjell Drilling in June 2018. Munch Thore graduated as a lawyer from the University of Oslo in 1897. In 1989, she earned a master of laws degree from Georgetown University. After serving as a legal officer at the Oslo Stock Exchange (1992-93), she joined Wikborg Rein where she specialized in corporate law, dealing with mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions. Her clients