Critical Analysis on The Scream by Edvard Munch

Critical Analysis on The Scream by Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was born on December 12 1863 in Loten Norway. He moved

to Christiana, and spent most of his childhood there. Both his mother

and his oldest sister suffered from tuberculosis and died before he

reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and

started attending art school. Edvard finally found a release for the

pain he felt from his sister’s death. In 1886 he painted “The Sick

Child”. The painting was so emotionally charged that it received a lot

of criticism from the press and the public. However some of his artist

colleagues began to recognize his talent. The same year another

tragedy struck. His father died in November. Edvard received some

scholarships that allowed him to spend the next few years in Paris.

Although he would return to Norway during the summer, his style was

that of a French Impressionist. In 1892 Munch submitted a series of

paintings into a major Berlin art show. His exhibit was titled “The

Frieze of Life”. This show caused an even larger uproar than his

previous work. Edvard became a celebrity overnight and he painted such

paintings as “the sick child” “the scream” and “vampire”, which showed

his true emotion feelings. Edvard Munch had been through a lot of

trauma, hurt and heartbreak in his life and his art work and painting

helped him to expressive his feelings. I am going to be analysing and

studing the Painting “The Scream”.

Edvard Munch was an Impressionist painter. Expressionism is movement

in the arts during the early part of the 20th century that emphasized

subjective expression of the artist's inner experiences. This may ...

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...e of the loneliest, scariest, and the most amazing place were we can

escape to, and were no one else can know what you are thinking. I have

seen how to symbolise certain things by colours and shapes and how to

give a certain impression and mood. I can see how amazing dreams and

nightmares are because they are not in this world, but they are only

true portraits our ourselves and our lives so anything is possible and

even our darkest and saddest feelings that we bury away inside us can

show and come to life in our dreams. I have learnt to make a

straightforward piece of art turn into an emotional and deep feeling

that every person has different views and feeling about depending on

their own lives. I can now see how this piece of artwork is truly

individual, remarkable and unique as it shows that emotions of a

broken man.