01 September 2006

Screaming Back

They have found Edvard Munch's paintings"Skrik" ("The Scream") and "Madonna".

Is that really news? Did it matter that they were gone? Few paintings have been so much reproduced as Skrik. We all knew it. We have seen copies and cartoons on the theme for more than a century. Did the world lose much when the originals were lost? Would it lose much if they were lost for ever?

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