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The Great Scream
In the poem The Great Scream in Nature that Edvard Munch wrote to go along with his most famous painting, it says, “I was walking along the road with two friends/ The sun was setting-the Sky turned blood-red/ And I felt a wave of Sadness- I paused/ tired to Death – Above the blue-black/ Fjord and City Blood and Flaming tongues hovered/ My friends walked on – I stayed behind – quaking with Angst – I felt the great Scream in Nature”. One painting. One simple, iconic painting that critics claimed to be ‘a discarded half-rubbed-out sketch’ screamed it’s way to one of the most famous and recognized paintings in the world.
Being a part of a family filled with sickness and death changed Edvard Munch’s perception on life and inspired the style of …show more content…
The bridge symbolizes the distance Munch felt to everyone around him, even the two figures in the background of the painting is seen a distance away from the main figure. The sky is painted mainly with orange and red. In the poem The Great Scream in Nature, Munch describes the sky as being blood-red, not as a colorful sun-set or as beautiful as most sunsets are described to be. The figure, who is assumed to represent Munch, is alone in the foreground. It is the main feature that attracts the attention of the viewers. With its wide eyes and opened mouth, it is obvious that the figure is screaming, but the question is …show more content…
Figuratively speaking, The Scream broke Munch’s silence. From then on, paintings like Anxiety, Death In The Sickroom, and By The Death Bed were made and they were the next stage of opening up for him. He and his paintings were like a cracked dam, one that held so much water that it finally broke.
There are so many factors that contributed to the theories of the scream Munch heard that it is too much to to keep track of. The simple painting with a not so simple meaning puts people in deep thought the moment their eyes see it. Everyone wonders what “the scream of nature” was based off of but at the end of the day, no one really knows what the scream really is or who it came
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