The Painting Munch “Scream”
A sample of expressionism, the picture “Scream”. as well as its numerous variants, is still one of the most mysterious masterpieces of world painting. Many critics believe that the plot of the picture is the fruit of a sick fantasy of a mentally unhealthy person. Someone sees a premonition of an ecological catastrophe in the work, someone decides the question of which mummy inspired the author for this work. Behind all the philosophies, the main thing is lost – the emotions that this picture evokes, the atmosphere that it conveys and the idea that each viewer can formulate for himself.
What did the author portray? What did he put in his ambiguous work? What did the world want to say? The answers to these questions may be different, but all will converge in one common opinion – “shouting” makes the viewer plunge into uneasy reflections about himself and of modern life.
Analysis of the painting “Scream”
A red, fiery
Only the bridge on which the heroes of the picture stand remains unchanged. He is opposed to the chaos into which the world is plunged. The bridge is the barrier that separates man from nature. Protected by civilization, people have forgotten how to feel, see and hear. Two indifferent figures in the distance, in no way reacting to what is happening around, only emphasize the tragedy of the plot.
The figure of a desperately screaming man, placed in the center of the composition, attracts the viewer’s attention first. On depersonalized to the primitive person reads despair and horror, bordering on insanity. The author managed to convey the most powerful human emotions with meager means. In the eyes of suffering, the wide-open mouth makes the cry itself piercing and really tangible. Raised hands, covering ears, speak of the reflex desire of a person to escape from himself, to stop
The loneliness of the protagonist, his fragility and vulnerability, fill all the work with a special tragedy and energy.
The author uses a sophisticated technique, in one work using both oil paints and tempera. At the same time, the color of the work is simple, even stingy. In fact, two colors – red and blue, as well as mixing the two colors – and create all the work. Intricate, unreal bends of lines in the image of the central figure and nature fill the composition with energy and drama.
The viewer decides for himself the question: what is primary in the work – scream or deformation. What is the basis of the work? Perhaps, despair and horror manifested in the cry and gave rise to deformation around, responding to human emotions, nature reacts in a similar way. In deformation, one can also see a “scream”.
Historical information about the painting
It’s amazing that Munch was abducted by the attackers several times. And it’s not so much the colossal value of “Scream”. The thing is in the unique and inexplicable impact of this work on the viewer. The picture is emotionally saturated and can cause strong emotions. On the other hand, in the most unknown way, having created his masterpiece at the very end of the 19th century, the author was able to predict the tragedy and abundance of the catastrophes of the twentieth century.
It should be added that it was this work that inspired many filmmakers and screenwriters to create films of very different kinds. However, none of the movies and did not approach the level of tragedy and emotionality to the masterpiece of Edward Munch.
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