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An author recounts his anxiety curating an exhibition of this artist in the book-length study So Much Longing in So Little Space. A sun colorfully bursts as it rises on the ocean horizon in one of the 11 murals this artist painted for a university hall in a style that he adopted after a mental breakdown. In a painting by this artist set in a forest, (-5[1])a woman in white stares at the viewer and clutches her red hair as a man in black looks away. (10[1])Family members fold their hands in prayer around a bed in one of this artist’s paintings inspired by the death of his teenage sister, Sophie. This artist of Ashes and Death in the Sickroom returned to a composition of a seaside boardwalk in the Anxiety entry of his The Frieze of Life. For 10 points, what Norwegian (10[1])expressionist depicted a “blood red” sky in The Scream? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Edvard Munch (“moonk”) (So Much Longing in So Little Space is by Karl Ove Knausgård, who also used The Sun as the cover image for Book 6 of My Struggle.)
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