The Centre Pompidou in Paris is putting on a new exhibition which opened to the public yesterday and runs till January 9 next year. The exhibition takes a fresh look at the work and influence of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch who lived between 1863 and 1944.

Munch, whose greatest known single work was The Scream (or The Cry), played a vital role in the development of European expressionism. His early work often portrayed themes of misery, sickness, and death. Some 70 major works are collected together at the Centre Pompidou modern art museum thanks to loans from the most prestigious international public collections. In this exceptional and innovative collection, one can admire the artist’s key works and discover his passion for the 20th century arts which inspired him and hover between his paintings and his interest in the most modern representative forms that include photography, cinema, renewal of theatre production.

Otherwise visitors may discover a specially gathered collection of major works and reconsider the “19th century, Symbolist, pre-Expressionist” image with which the artist has traditionally been labelled. Munch may, at this point, be regarded in a new light: a 20th century artist placed firmly in the modern phase of his era.