Munch – Despair (1894) | Expressionist Oil Painting

Painted a year after The Scream, Despair shows a lone figure overwhelmed by nature’s emotional weight on the Kristiania fjord. Munch’s proto-expressionist brushwork dissolves the boundary between inner anguish and external landscape, with the figure’s posture mirroring the turbulent sky above.

Artist	Edvard Munch
Year	1894
Category	Abstract
Medium	Oil on canvas
Licence	CC0 Public Domain
Resolution	2 008 × 2 560 px
Format	JPEG
File Size	~3.9 MB