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
Munch Museum In May 2013, the Oslo City Council finally took the decision to revive the project, and move the museum to its new site on the waterfront, next to the Oslo Opera House. Construction started during September 2015, with the new museum expected to be completed during 2019 and scheduled to open to the public by 2020. Munch Museum Munch Museum () is an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch Museum is situated at Tøyen in the Oslo borough of Gamle Oslo. Construction of the museum was financed from