Comments on: The Scream

By: Santanu Saha

Santanu Saha — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:11:21 +0000

The whole picture has waves, waves of expression—as if everything is coming out in a flow. The waves are either red or red-like colours. Juxtaposition of an almost two-dimensional picture: the point of view of audience gives the expression a certain kind of completeness, which basically relates to the title “The Scream.”

The horror of the skeleton—a man’s face keeps the viewer in focus. An eye-to-eye transfer of fear depicts and at the same time submits the inherent helplessness in the eye of the onlookers. The abstract high-pitched shriek coming out of his mouth takes a concrete shape of prominent self-described waves.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:58:27 +0000

It is gay.

By: S. Kartsonis

S. Kartsonis — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:32:18 +0000

Nice job, Stuart Vail. Love this take.

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:41:30 +0000

Love me! Save me!

By: Harold Martinez

Harold Martinez — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:24:34 +0000

This is the perfect image to showcase my expression after Bush’s State of the Union last night. That cunt.

By: Stuart Vail

Stuart Vail — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:04:46 +0000

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?

By: S. Kartsonis

S. Kartsonis — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:23:36 +0000

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.

By: Adriana de Barros

Adriana de Barros — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:36:43 +0000

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.

By: Robert D.

Robert D. — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:04:20 +0000

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.