Edvard Munch's The Scream

If you shut up and bury it under ground, it will but grow (Emile Zola). This becomes the reality of a family who throughout time hid sinister truths that when uncovered the results are detrimental to one man’s mental health. The narrator is the last known person in the line of a lineage known as Delapore (de la Poer); a family ridden with heinous ancestral lore. In his attempt to become more connected with his ancestry the speaker restores the seat of his ancestors, Exham Priory, only to become plagued by the sounds of vicious flesh consuming rats slithering behind its walls. Upon further investigation the speaker uncovers a dark truth that lurks far beneath the priory’s foundation. In his horror short story, “The Rats in the Walls”, H.P. Lovecraft

Munch was born in 1863, and before long he had come to know the intensity of emotional pain. His father was a doctor who often bought patients to the Munch home. His mother died when Edvard was five years old, his older sister died of disease at the age of fifteen, and Edvard himself was often ill. One of his youngest sisters was also diagnosed with a mental illness at an early age. With death and illness as a

Vincent Willem van Gogh is considered as one of the most renowned artist/painter in history, but like many others, his legacy and talent was brought to light after his death. While suffering from mental illness and poverty throughout his life, he was still able to capture the essence of beauty and color through his expressionistic, abstract technique as well as influence in Japanese art. His works accumulate to 2,100, consisting of 860 oil paintings, and more than 1,300 watercolor, drawings, and sketches. Van Gogh, being a post-impressionist artist, is stated to be the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. Van Gogh’s work is now recognized by many; from his art being sold for little to nothing, is now sold for millions.

Illness and health are two very different concepts. Health is something that is living well, while illness is something not living well. Mentally ill is how Stephen King describes us all for liking horror movies, in his essay “Why We Crave Horror.” According to King, we all have anticivilization emotions that need to be released and are released through horror movies. While many believe the horror movie genre is too macabre and dark, King’s ideas are accurate because we would have to be mentally ill to enjoy others being harmed.

Around 1890, an artist by the name of Vincent Van Gogh who present day is one of the most renowned artists created magnificent, yet mysterious drawings which he started with just a pencil. From his pencil drawings with lines and dashes to the beautiful variations with using paint, Vincent was a genius, but was never congratulated on his work until later. Even as he was pronounced crazy, he could still create beautiful works of art which shows how even a flower can bloom in a dark forest. As his life was slowly being painted on canvas from the years of solitude and psychiatric problems he finally killed himself which a couple years later brought up his artwork through his own suicide.

Edvard Grieg was a composer in the Romantic period. He was born on June 15th 1843 in Bergen, Norway. His mother was his first music teacher, who was a beautiful pianist. In fact, almost everyone in Edvard’s family was a musician, so they were perfectly okay with him wanting to become a musician. When Edvard was in his late teenage years, he traveled to study at the best music conservatory in Europe. After he graduated, he moved to Denmark, where he met and married Nina, a singer. Later they had a child named Alexandria, who died after only 13 months. Grieg performed his music all over Europe, however, every summer he went back to Norway to compose new music for the fall and winter performances. Edvard died on September 4th 1907 in Bergen, Norway,

Ed Ruscha has been making work in Los Angeles for the better part of the century. People often talk about Ed Ruscha’s work, his paintings, his books, photos or films as different and non-traditional. Ruscha broke classical tradition of realism, stepped outside of the boundaries and changed art. Ed Ruscha the most iconic artist in the 20th century pioneered the pop art movement inspiring the world to think outside the box with his bold design choices. Ed Ruscha greatly influenced contemporary art, changing the way the world perceived the simple but yet so complicated canvas that Ruscha composed. Ruscha defies easy categorization as an he artist. He is simultaneously known as a pop artist, a conceptual artist, surrealist

Vincent took drawing classes from Anton Mauve and his uncle gave him his first commission which was twelve drawings of the city view. In 1884 he rented a large space in Nuenen which was home to many farmers, rural laborers and weavers and that’s who he painted and sketched. He gave Theo some of his works to sell but that didn’t work out because his works had a dark tone and the French preferred color. In 1885 after his father died he moved out of his family home and into his studio where he started working on The Potato Eaters (1885). During that year he enrolled in an art academy in Antwerp where he found the classes too traditional for him. He went to stay with Theo in Paris in 1886 and Theo introduced him to colorful arts of modern artists like Claude Monet. Also he met a group of post-impressionist artists at Fernand Cormon’s studio which influenced and inspired him to use brighter colors. He started using short brush strokes and painting cafes and boulevards. He also found inspiration in Japanese woodcuts and started to collect and study them. Vincent moved to Arles and he loved it there because of the bright light and colors. He had a plan to set up a “Studio of the South” there

On of the greatest artist in the entire existence of man, in my opinion, in Pablo Picasso. His work is recognized throughout the world, where these works are on display in some of the most visited museums in the world, where millions of people visit annually. The works are of art so sought out, that people spend millions of their money to get them for themselves. Picasso lived for almost 100 years, and in that time created tens of thousands of different works of art. He and Georges Braque are the creators of cubism, which was a completely different type of art for its time.

Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the importance of Edvard Munch’s contribution to modern art.

Edward Munch piece of art titled The Scream (1983) was created in Oslo, Norway. It is one of the most popular work of art in the world and it is currently located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most of the paintings created by this artist were done in oil, pastel on cardboard; including this one. The characteristics of this piece of art present a subjective perspective, the artist didn't fail to capture the feeling or experience of the figure, even though he didn't achieve complete or accurate depiction, which makes this painting of a impressionism style.

Additionally, his artwork was developed through hardships that had an even greater impact on it as a whole. INTRODUCTION- Many of you have probably heard of Claude Monet; he has many famous paintings and is known as one of the founders of impressionist painting. Monet is often put into a category of a great artist buy few people really know the full reasoning behind why his artwork is so different and brilliant.

Vincent Van Gogh was an artistic genius with a nightmare for a life. He suffered both mental illness and the scorn of others.

One of the most unique figures in the continuum of the art world, Marcel Duchamp changed the way we look at and produce art today. Marcel Duchamp was by far, one of the most controversial figures in art. Two of the most well known and talked about pieces by him are The Fountain and The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even . Duchamp created many other pieces that caught the attention of critics, other artists, and the population in a negative way; however, these two pieces alone, brought about the greatest amount of controversy.

The Sleeper, by Edgar Allan Poe, was first published in the Poems of 1831; this poem has since been revised from its current version which was printed in 1845. This poem was written during the Romanticism Period. This time period is defined as a time in which poets began to “rebel against the Neoclassical restrictions and dominance of reason as poetic aim. Romantic poetry celebrated the imagination over rationality, passion, and dreams over reason and external reality, and isolated individuality over collective humankind. Romantic poetry looked to celebrate both the supernatural and elevate the commonplace.” (Henriksen) Poe’s imagination prevails in this lyric poem. The speaker of the poem experiences an internal conflict while mourning