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"title": "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century",
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"title": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).",
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"id": 230909,
"title": "Munch and Expressionism",
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"did_you_know": "This print is one of only two known impressions printed from the first state of the block before it was cut into two sections.",
"description": "Evening, Melancholy I depicts the jilted, tormented art critic Jappe Nilssen, Munch's friend, on the shore of \u00c5sg\u00e5rdstrand, a fishing village south of Oslo. Munch chose heavily grained blocks of wood, allowing the pattern of the board to add texture to the scene, and he exploited the handmade aspect of the technique by carving blocks crudely. He also experimented so that each impression is unique, using black ink on the woodblock and watercolor and gouache to color the sheet extensively. An example of how method can reinforce meaning, the simplified shapes, flattened space, and dark hues create a visual correspondence to the figure's deep depression.",
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"citation": "S. E. L. \u201cYear in Review.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 210\u2013231.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 215; Mentioned: p. 231",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Gasto, Cristobal, \"The Expression of Melancholy in the Work of J.M. de Sucre: A Case Study.\" In Depression and the Spiritual in Modern Art, ed. Joseph J. Schildkraut. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.",
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