“Death in the Sickroom”-A painting by Edvard Munch

(Picture from Wikipedia-public domain entries)

“Death in the Sickroom” is a painting which is highly moving -evoking very strong emotions The sorrow is meant to be underplayed by avoiding the scene of the dead .Instead the gloom comes out from the expressions of the mourners ,which is much deeper than it would have been had the sorrow focussed on the death itself.Much before death the room was a sick room ,probably in preparation for the death and it was as though the gloom had always been there .Death was a mere extension of the sick room and will continue even after death ceased to exist in the room as part of life.