{"id":1261,"date":"2015-02-19T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny.thescreamfromnature.com\/?page_id=1261"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:30:34","slug":"the-scream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/the-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Munch\u2019s The<\/em>\u00a0Scream<\/em>\u00a0is an icon of modern art, and one of the world\u2019s most famous art works.\u00a0Munch wrote several texts about the Scream motif, the most poignant among these being: \u201cI felt a huge unending scream course through nature\u201d. The image has come to represent an expression of existential anxiety and despair of modern man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the Deutsche Welle TV documentation about the Scream as one of the icons of art history, where also Lise Wulff features with the Scream from Nature >>><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Scream\u00a0<\/em>is part of a series of paintings that Munch was to call\u00a0The Frieze of Life<\/em>. The pictures are tied togheter in terms of subject matter and form, and focus on existential topics such as love, pain, anxiety, jealousy and death.<\/p>\n

Munch returned to several of the subject in The Frieze of Life during a 30-year period. As for the\u00a0Scream<\/em>, he made two oil paintings, two pastels and numerous prints, between 1983 and 1910.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Scream\u00a0<\/em>can be seen in Oslo. The Munch Musem holds one paited version and a pastel version, and the National Museum \u00a0holds one painted version.<\/p>\n

The symbolist view on nature<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

When Munch is saying that he feels a scream through nature, he shows a form of identification with nature, and a form of personification of nature.<\/p>\n

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. Suddenly the sky turned blood red and I felt a huge unending scream course through nature<\/p>\n

Edvard Munch’s writings about the Scream, <\/em>translation of the painted text on top of the page<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A kind of borderlessness – elements floating in and out of each other – is typical for the symbolist art at the late 19th century. There was an interest in energy; energy lines and the energy fields, and the mystic plasma – as a kind of invisible structure where things happened without concrete form.<\/p>\n

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Edvard Munch: Notes, Separation, The Kiss \u00a9 Munch Museum\/Munch-Ellingsen Group\/BONO, Oslo 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The interconnectedness between human and nature, can be seen in Munch’s work. For example, the hair of a woman intertangles with the branches of a tree. Persons are melting into each other in the Kiss. Actually, they are not only meling into each other, in his woodcut they are also melting into the material itself – you can see the structure of the wood is litterally floating into the persons. Strong energy lines are shown in the Sun, making something invisible beautifully present.<\/p>\n

Symbolist painters believed that art should reflect emotions or ideas rather than mere representations of the natural world. Munch’s intensely personal style is often referred to as Symbolic Naturalism.<\/p>\n

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Edvard Munch: The Sun, 1911 \u00a9 Munch-museet\/Munch-Ellingsen Gruppen\/BONO 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Munch\u2019s The\u00a0Scream\u00a0is an icon of modern art, and one of the world\u2019s most famous art works.\u00a0Munch wrote several texts about the Scream motif, the most poignant among these being: \u201cI felt a huge unending scream course through nature\u201d. The image has come to represent an expression of existential anxiety and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1261","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thescreamfromnature.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}