The Scream
The Scream © Edvard Munch (1893)
Best Interpretation: “Nothing comes from his mouth… he is too frozen in his overwhelming terror to emit a sound. It is the sky that screams: it embodies all the ills of the world… the murder, the injustices, the rape, incest, graft, corruption, theft, jealousies, bickering…. The world is silently screaming all around us, but can anyone hear it? Does anyone care?” -Stuart Vail
Issue Jan 2007
Expressionism
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Munch is expressive with his choice of colors, red, dark blue and orange. A mix of cold and hot colors, a mix of emotions. The Scream looks like an artificial or cartoonish scene, but if we look closely it shows real feelings and the landscape of Oslofjord. It is an outdoor piece that feels claustrophobic, a person completely overwhelmed.
When I look at it, it always reminds me of Macaulay Culkin’s scream: hands to face, in “Home Alone” (1990), or the serial-killer ghost from “Scream” (1996). It immediately connects me to images of movies.
I don’t like this painting at all, I wouldn’t want it on my walls
It transmits anxiety, much of it, and feeling like you are overwhelmed and wanting to dig a hole and sit in it. Not care about the outter world, just escape from it. I think most of us can relate to feeling stressed out, or in a ‘crowded solitude’—being in a big city and feeling like we don’t belong there. Wanting to yell at the top of the mountain, and wishing life would improve.
Leave nothing unshaken in the terror. The landscape mixes itself like a can of paint, the shrill to the scream swirls the world to charcoal and creamy fire. A terror and everything bends to its will.
Nothing comes from his mouth… he is too frozen in his overwhelming terror to emit a sound. It is the sky that screams: it embodies all the ills of the world… the murder, the injustices, the rape, incest, graft, corruption, theft, jealousies, bickering…. The world is silently screaming all around us, but can anyone hear it? Does anyone care?
This is the perfect image to showcase my expression after Bush’s State of the Union last night. That cunt.
Love me! Save me!
Nice job, Stuart Vail. Love this take.
It is gay.