The Scream Anaylsis

The Scream Edvard Munch created the painting from a particular event in his life. Edvard was walking with two friends during a sunset when suddenly he describes the sky turning blood red. He grabbed hold of a hand rail and began to have a panic attack. He sensed a great, infinite scream pass through his nature. This is where he came up with the idea for the painting “The Scram.”
The painting consists of many wavy, heavy thick lines. The wavy lines convey that the person in the painting Edvard is feeling very nervous and is a sense of worry. This is because he is suffering with a panic attack. The heavy thick lines in the background show that the sky which signifies the panic attack has strength and power and is taking over him. The sky is yellow and red this conveys an emotion which started as a sense of happiness (sunset) into a sense of hell (panic attack). The blue color shows coldness and despair, however Edvard was trying to look out over the rail into the sea when suffering from the panic attack this is because the color blue actually calms you down by slowing down your heartbeat when you are exposed to it. The colors are also very washed out this is to show that Edvard is suffering from illness, he’s very weak and is exposing himself to defeatism. The light in the painting is coming from above Edvard to me this is showing that the painter feels the panic attack is of a spiritual presence of which he has no control over.
The painting has a lot of open space, this illustrates that there is a lack of boundaries to the power of the panic attack. The open space and depth from his friends the painter is experiencing shows that as a result of the panic attack he is becoming distant from the real world. From the formal organization of the painting there seems to be an inverted triangle, with the point of the triangle coming at the body of Edvard. This shows that he is feeling very unstable as a result of the strength of the panic attack.