Edvard Munch, The scream (1893)

oil on cardboard, 83,5x66 cm
Oslo (Norway), Munch Museet

"I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature". Edvard Munch wrote this passage about the Scream in 1893.
Munch is an expressionist painter who describes excitation and anguish, his agitation is drawn in this painting, where he does not paint what he sees but what he feels. In this painting all is deformed, first of all the man, metaphor of the artist and of his anxiety, then the "sky turned blood red", the water of the fjord melting with the mountains. The scream in the art becomes metaphor of desperation.

A project by
Federico Giannini

Museo Ugo Guidi
(Forte dei Marmi)

Associazione Amici
del Museo Ugo Guidi
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