As previously noted, the flowing curves of art

Of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked with anxiety and uncertainty.Įssentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him.įitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at a time when his mind was in an abnormal state, Munch renders it in a style which if pushed to extremes can destroy human integrity.

As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal

Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed, 1940Ĭourtesy of Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time.

Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1896.

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. “I can’t think of anything that could take higher precedence than a hostage situation, except maybe an active shooter,” he said.Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. When asked about Campbell’s 911 call and the police response to it, police spokesman Robert Tornabene said he couldn’t comment because there was an “open and active criminal investigation” into the deaths.Ĭampbell’s lawyer, Harry Daniels, said she wants answers from the department about why it did not respond to her call, saying Qualin Campbell might still be alive if they had. She said her husband’s uncle, who also went to the scene, called police to report that Qualin Campbell was dead. “I shouldn’t have been the one there, the first person to respond,” she said.

As other people gathered around, they debated whether they should open the car door after seeing a gun on the lap of the other man, who appeared to be unconscious but did not have any visible injuries, she said.Ĭampbell said she decided to open the door to try to save her husband, who had been bleeding, but found no pulse on his neck or wrist. She said when she saw her husband slumped over inside the car alongside another man, she fell to her knees and started screaming. When she arrived Campbell said she immediately recognized her husband’s company car in a parking lot. The dispatcher said an officer would check it out and get back to her but there was no sense of urgency, Campbell said, so she drove to the location herself. The first dispatcher briefed the second dispatcher on what Campbell reported, she said, before Campbell said she explained what she knew again to the second dispatcher.

She was then transferred to a dispatcher responsible for taking Colorado Springs calls. Then he sent messages saying “911″ and “Send Please!” She called the emergency number.Ĭampbell said she told one dispatcher that she believed her husband had been taken hostage, described his car and his location, which was about a mile away from the headquarters of the Colorado Springs Police Department. when her husband, a father of two, l texted his location and a photo of a man sitting next to him in his car. Talija Campbell said she called 911 just after 1 p.m. It said the officers responded to a report of a shooting there at 2:09 p.m. On its online police blotter, the Colorado Springs Police Department said it found two deceased adult males on Friday at the location that Talija Campbell said she feared her husband Qualin Campbell was being held by another man. DENVER (AP) - A woman who received a desperate text from her husband indicating he had been taken hostage said Tuesday that she called 911 but that police did not respond until about an hour later, by which time he had been shot and killed.

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