His most famous image—a screaming figure, its eyes wide with horror—is an icon of anxiety, alienation, and anguish. Attraction and love as well as jealousy and death were also recurring themes. His continual reworking of these subjects is commonly linked to …

The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch. Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked with anxiety and uncertainty.

The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch.

2025年2月15日 · Munch represented this scream through a series of undulating lines that pressed in on the figure like shock waves, reducing its face to a primal image of fear and standing in visual contrast to the straight path on which the three figures are walking. He accentuated this effect by showing that his two companions, who are seen walking away, were ...

2021年12月15日 · The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch in Context. The famous Scream painting by Edvard Munch has long been one of the Norwegian artist’s seminal artworks, touching on the deep trenches of human

Munch's art represented his own emotions, mostly the darker ones of fear, dread, loneliness, and sexual longing, with extraordinary expressiveness. The screaming figure personifies existential horror. A precursor of this image is a drawing of a man (Munch himself) on a similar bridge, with a blood-red sky above.

3 天之前 · A street artist depiction of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, on N. Hanley Road under the I-70 overpass in St. Louis. (Photo by Ben Fulton) Edvard Munch’s The Scream qualifies as an iconic image only for people who have never seen it. Its power to transfix, its ineluctable pull on the eye, is such that it qualifies as iconic before we even define ...

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth”, February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 89, 93, fig. 94, cat. by Jay A. Clarke Provenance Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1963.

2016年11月16日 · Handwritten beneath the image of the figure on a bridge is the title of the work in German—"Geschrei"—and, in the lower right-hand corner, the phrase "Ich fühlte das grosse Geschrei durch die Natur" (I felt the great scream in nature).

Conservator at the National Museum, Thierry Ford, shows you some secrets of the famous Scream (in English with Norwegian subtitles). In the Munch room in the National Museum, 18 of Munch's most important works are on view. Here are T he Sick Child, The Scream, The Dance of Life, Ashes, Death in the Sick-room, and more on display.