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Chemistry

The workplace of fire and warmth

An image of Edvard Munch's painting "Chemistry"

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?Chemistry represents the hidden energies — the workplace of fire and warmth.?– Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch's allegory of the discipline of chemistry fuses laboratory and esoteric science.

A young man and woman are leaning over laboratory beakers with coloured contents. Smoke and flames arise from the flasks and become tiny fetuses: ?a moment pointing towards the future?, in  Munch's own words.

Mystery, human nature and the genesis of life are underlying themes.