12 Dec 06 Google logo: Edvard Munch
This has got to be one of the coolest Google logo’s I’ve ever seen. Clicking on it takes you to a search of Edvard Munch, a famous painter born this day in 1983. He later died on January 23, 1944.
The Scream (1893; originally called Despair), Munch’s best-known painting, is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy.
you might wanna change the birth year
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the painting was stolen from a museum in oslo, norway some years ago but was recently found by the police … just as an extra note …
[...] Today is the birthday of the Norwegian expressionist, Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Munch is most remembered for two paintings: the infamous Scream (1893) and the lesser known Dance of Life (1899). Google has even created a commemorative logo in celebration of Munch’s birthday. Ahhhh! [...]