“The Scream” by Edward Munch

"The Scream" is one of the world's most recognizable works of art. It depicts a man in a private moment of anguished despair and anxiety, while the other people in the painting, perhaps his friends, seem blissfully unaware of the man's situation. "Scream" by Edvard Munch is ranked as the world's second most famous artwork for "Mona Lisa"(Dolnick, p. 49) . It is a key work in art history and an important image in popular culture. Edvard Munch (1863-1932) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker (Kendzior, p. 75). He quickly developed his own identity among the youth in The Sick Child (1886) and Spring (1889). Many other of Munch's famous works are inspired by the view from a trail across Oslo Hospital.

The image was originally displayed in Berlin in 1893, as part of a series of six paintings then called “Study for a Series Entitled 'Love'”. The original version of The Scream is now located in Norway's National Gallery in Oslo. This can be seen as problematic. While art galleries are traditionally seen as a 'natural' environment for the display of art, they remove the art from its original context, if an original context can ever be located.

The photo shows the small hysterical character who is in the middle of one relatively horror-filled facial expressions. It is bald, and has placed his hands on his head, as a stereotypical "screaming". The figure stands on a bridge, and back he sees two people. Back there again, one sees two boats out on the sea, under a blood red sky. On the right side there is a river that flows and flows under the bridge. (Hart, p. 184)

The motif is a bridge which extends obliquely inwards in the picture to the left. In the middle of the picture, we see a person holding a contorted face between his hands. To the left of the picture, at the end of the bridge, we see two dark figures. The colors consist mainly of blue, yellow and red tones, colors differed troubles apart. Facial expression and the characters in the image is blurred, and the landscape, the sea of ??blue with some boats and a red and yellow sky, flowing into each other.

We know that the image was formed through several stages of simplification, in which Munch sought to describe a frantic sense of desperation as he grabbed a sundown even up here, "I went by the road with two friends - Saa went by sun down sky was pludselig blood and I felt great skrig in nature - " (Simeon, p. 49)

Although Munch through his way of painting created a stylized image of reality, he was a realist in the sense that we can always explain his work with reference to the landscape he knew as his own, and the thematic content of the pictures that go back on personal experiences.

This new simplified style presupposes belief that abstract painting tools have emotional expressive power. Contemporary art theorists talked about the ...