An Allusion to the "The Scream": An ART RESPONSE

 

Edvard  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.

Essentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. Fitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at a time when his mind was in an abnormal state, Munch renders it in a style which if pushed to extremes can destroy human integrity.

As previously noted, the flowing curves of art nouveau represent a subjective linear fusion imposed upon nature, where by multiplicity of particulars is unified into a totality of organic suggestion with feminine overtones. But man is part of nature, and absorption into such a totality liquidates the individual.

The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later.

The 1895 pastel on board version of the painting was sold at Sotheby's at auction on 2 May 2012. An this Art of  Edvard Munch is very famous and their are many of them made in another materials but the first art is 1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard. The first version of the art.