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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, a woman in white stares at the viewer and clutches her red hair as a man in black looks away. Family members (-5[1])fold their hands in prayer around a (10[1])bed in one of this artist’s (-5[1])paintings inspired by the death of his teenage sister, (10[1])Sophie. (10[3])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 expressionist (10[1])depicted a “blood red” sky in The Scream? (0[1])■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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