The Screem a Magnificent Art Work

The Scream a Magnificent Artwork The scream painting by Edvard Munch is one of the most known pieces of artworks. In the scream we can see a genderless person with a horrified face, and with his mouth wide open, and with his hands on the sides of his face. The artist uses intense colors. Such as, red, orange, dark blue, brown, and black. The figure in the painting seems to me that he is uncertain and scared of something, and he has the look of terror, or fear. The scream it is thought of as the first expressionist painting. The Web Museum (2002) defines expressionist as a “Movement in fine arts that emphasized the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality, but the subjective emotions and responses than objects and events arouse in the artist,” also in this painting you can see the sunset, and a sea, or river. Munch wrote an impressive and developer diary in 1892 which is associate with the creation of the scream. “I was walking around the road with two friends. The sun was setting I felt a breath of melancholy-suddenly the sky turned blood red. I stopped, looking out across the flaming clouds that hug like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear. And, I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature”(Munch 1892). Edvard Munch suffered from depression and his illness was also his source of inspiration. “My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness”, he once wrote. Nowadays the painting of the scream is the most known of our time. “Edvard Munch is one of the twentieth century´s greatest printmakers, and his work particularly The Scream and Madonna-have made their way into the popular culture of our times”. (www.yale.edu, 2002). I think Edvard´s sunset is completely different from the idea that we have of a sunset. “What would otherwise be a beautiful sunset it transformed into an expression of pure dread, of