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Munch’s painting: Screaming or listening?
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Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, “The Scream,” has become a world icon of human anxiety, appearing on everything from popular T-shirts to blowup dolls, and causing endless debate among art experts.
But what exactly is the surreal figure doing in the painting, with hands pressed to its head and open mouth: Screaming, or hearing a scream?
Rumour has it that infact the painting was set near an Asylem and he figure in the painting was infact hearing a scream of someone from it..
scream, or SKRIK as it called in Edvards native Norwegian,cause that is the name the artist gave it.............wouldnt call it a masterpiece though I find it rather piss poor
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I believe that the figure is just expressing mild discomfort over being constipated.
Seriously, Munch titled this work, "the Scream" so why is this even being debated?
As a fine Arts major (both Studio and Art History) i became so sick of young students collecting this poster and putting it on their wall, along with anything by Gustave Klimt, that it has lost all meaning to me.
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I use to see posters all over with the figure smoking pot...
"I was walking along a path with two friends, the sun was setting and suddenly the sky turned blood red, I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence, there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city, my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety, and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."
he's screaming because he just figured out the black government plot to enslave and microchip the human race
seriously though, the guy is screaming and the world surrounding him is distorted to express his point of view, one of intense anxiety and panic...thats the way i see it.
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Jun 13th, 2005 12:53 AM
