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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 (10[1])in one of the 11 murals this artist painted for a university hall in a style (-5[1])that he adopted after (-5[1])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 (-5[1])man in black looks (10[1])away. Family members fold their hands in prayer around a bed in one of this (10[1])artist’s paintings inspired by the death of his teenage sister, Sophie. This artist of Ashes and Death in the Sickroom (10[1])returned to a composition (10[1])of a seaside boardwalk (10[1])in the Anxiety entry of his The Frieze of Life. (10[1])For 10 points, what Norwegian expressionist depicted a “blood red” sky in The Scream? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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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