A new exhibition at Rome's Palazzo Bonaparte showcases 100 works by Edvard Munch, exploring his emotional and symbolic approach to perception and memory.
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00:00Munch wrote, I don't paint what I see, but what I've seen.
00:22So every image we observe is actually the result of a memory, of something he lived,
00:28but filtered by his emotions.
00:30From when he was very young until his last years, here there is a Munch all around.
00:52These 100 exceptional works from the Munch Museum trace the life and experimentation of this artist,
01:01who started to produce works when he was a late teenager and never stopped, literally, until the day he died.
01:08And he was experimental in all aspects of painting and printmaking.
01:13So we're able to watch as he develops.
01:16So it's a bit of a chronology.
01:18The second thing is that he was impassioned about trying to explain how the eye works
01:24and how memory always affects what we see.
01:27Memory, emotions, the sounds from the exterior, shape vision.
01:32And in doing that, he was at one with the development of perceptual psychology.
01:38So we also get to see how this artist experimented with our literal ways of seeing the world.
01:45And in doing that, he helped to show us a world that we may already see and experience,
01:50but we didn't really have words for before he showed us.