My favourite picture

THE SCREAM

DESCRIPTION

The Scream (Oil, temprea, pastel and crayon on a cardboard) is the most famous Edvard Munch's painting. In the foreground you can see an androgynous person at a promenade who highlights his facial expression. Behind him, you can discern two persons surrounded by a mysterious aura. A river is shown in the central part, painted with a range of blues and creating a clear distinction between him and an angered and unusual orangey sky in the upper part.

MEANING

Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, a 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. His painting of a sexless, twisted, fetal-faced creature, with mouth and eyes open wide in a shriek of horror, re-created a vision that had seized him as he walked one evening in his youth with two friends at sunset. As he later described it, the "air turned to blood" and the "faces of my comrades became a garish yellow-white." Vibrating in his ears he heard "a huge endless scream course through nature."

PERSONAL OPINION

At first glance, The Scream produces me a mixed feelings such as fear, overwhelm, anxiety and even an emotional distress during a short time that is really difficult to explain. The strong colours that were used give the composition an intense energy and they makes me feel as the painting brings to life. The Scream inspires me to think about the importance of the life and how we should squeeze it every minute.