The Scream

For my paper I selected The Scream by Edvard Munch. The Scream may be the most iconic human figure in the history of Western art. Edvard Munch is considered one of the biggest artist that had a big influence on the development of expressionism. He introduce the subjects with an extreme emotionalism, exploring the use of vivid color and linear distortion to express feelings about life and death, Edvard Munch Munch stated:

We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing room walls. We want to create, or at least lay the foundations of, an art that gives something to humanity. An art that arrests and engages. An art created of one’s innermost heart.

and The Scream reflects his words

Edvard Munch concentrated the modernism in his paintings. he was the first one mixing tempera and crayon on a card board, The scream is an art work with the size of a room, it is pretty big 36” x 28⅞“

Much of what's on display was produced after 1908, the year he had a nervous breakdown and left Paris for a spell in a Danish psychiatric clinic (before returning to Norway in 1909), rather than from the fin de siecle, symbolist era of The Scream. And it is a show full of surprises.

The expressionism period was a movement to create emotions through art work. In The Scream, Munch mixed up feelings with his heavy brush work and the use of unnatural colors. The use of orange, red or others warm colors for the sky, creating the perfect moment of a sunset. The thick spiral lines of the sunset and the river create the sensation of implied movement. Munch depends on the atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of depth. The warm colors is stands for the sunset and sky while the cool colors represent the river and the land. The form in The Scream are organic, object that you can find in the nature, but Munch has distorted this objects creating an amazing abstract art work

It would seem that the somatic passage failed to “adjust” things out for him, and he is out of place on that bridge, unlike the two people in the background of the bridge. For the screamer, madness continues on the bridge; he demonstrates this literally, with undulating lines of his head, torso and hands.

Edvard Munch articulated some of its darkest nightmares. He had traveled to to study contemporary art, from Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Toulouse Lautrec. what he learned from them made him able to include a new symbol in his expressive intense, artwork and producing depth emotions such as grief, loneliness, fear, love, jealousy, and death. In the scream Munch takes the viewer far from the pleasure of Impressionism and extends considerably Van Gogh’s expressive vision. In this powerful paint of anxiety, the principal character is caught in fear, loneliness, and isolation. despair the resonate in continuous linear rhythms. Munch’s paint have been called ‘the soul-cry of the