Edvard Munch: What A Cigarette Means
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Description:
At the end of the 19th century, the cigarette existed at the center of a lot of different cultural forces. The one you’re looking at right here is from a painting by Edvard Munch, most famous for another canvas called The Scream. This self-portrait with cigarette made two years later, though less jarring, is just as concerned with Munch’s personal psychology and the dark underside of his identity…
