Through analysis of Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”, the mood is portrayed as tense and frightful. This mood is achieved through facial expressions, bold and contrasting colors, body language, and the elements of lines. In the painting the facial expressions and body language convey a negative mood. In “The Scream” a distorted skeletal figure with a ghastly face is drawn with his hands over his ears and mouth agape. The terrified being conveys a frightful mood due to the contortions of his face and hand positions. In addition, the painting includes an array of bold and contrasting colors. The red and blues differentiate with one another forming shadowy hues. The color red which is featured in the painting as a sunset is notorious for
Red appears to dominate the painting and serves as an eye-catching color. The use of intensely saturated colors draws the attention to the front couple. Additionally, the red color plays with the mind of the onlooker without them thinking about it. It suggests deep passion, anger, and struggle. The artist intends to relay his feelings about the event to the viewer. His outlook consists of disgust towards the great depression that leaves many taken advantage of due to desperation.
The painting has a plethora of things going for it, and there is a lot of symbolism in this piece of art. In the sky, it looks as if there is either a moon or a sun that it is setting. The sphere is about a quarter of an inch from the top of the painting which suggest that it is the setting sun. The reason that it seems that the sun is setting and not rising is because the sky is a light and dark red. An interesting thing about the red in the sky is that there are two different shades of red. On the outer layer, it is a lighter shade of red and on the inner layer it is a darker shade of red. It seems as if the two different shades of red are actually the same shade. On the inner layer Ringgold used the red in a different more solid way trying to put more emphasis on that layer. The sky is not the only thing that is red on this work of art. There are a few different items that are outlined in red; the two biggest things are the river and the trees. I think that these two things are outlined in red is because Ringgold is trying to tell us that the pain and oppression that has been caused by the white people runs all the way to the roots and that it’s time for it to end.
In the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, the author, Johann Hari, takes us through the lives of three peoples’ war on drugs. Throughout the book, he allows us to follow their stories from beginning to end with their war on drugs. Hari takes reality and puts in into a fictional form to add to their stories. Hari talks about the approach that has been taken throughout the past 100 years to get rid of drugs, even though the approach failed. Throughout the book, Hari also argues that drugs have done a lot of damage to our society.
Concerning color, there is a stark contrast between the figure on the painting and the background. More specifically, the figure of the woman is predominantly delineated in white color, especially pale, ashen white, as far her apparel and facial complexion are concerned, while there are also various hues of grey, with respect to her hair and accessory feather. These white and grey shades are vividly contrasted with the prevailing red and crimson hues of the background (viz. the drape, armchair, and table). Moreover, one can detect colors of dark green (jewelry), some beige on the left (pillar), and darker or lighter shades of blue on the right side of the canvas (sky), which all in concert and in addition to the subtle purple hue forming the sun or moon exude a certain dramatic sentiment. Also, there is brown, which often easily segues into gold (viz. books and attire details respectively). The main contrast of colors between white and red would be interpreted as serving the purpose of rendering the figure of the woman, and especially her face, the focal point of the work, despite, paradoxically enough, the lush red shades at the background. Bearing that in mind, the significance of the woman’s face will be enlarged upon later, when discussing aspects of her identity.
“The Scream” is an iconic painting drawn in the late 19th century, even if someone is not interested in art, they have seen it more than once; There have been countless parodies of it and references to it in pop culture. Edvard Munch came up with the concept while having a walk with two of his friends while the sun was setting. The sky had turned blood red. He paused in a state of shock and anxiety, and his companions had left him. The painting captures this feeling perfectly.
The war on drugs has been around for a very long time. For some people taking drugs is part of their lives and it is the only thing that gets them through their day. Some drugs are legal and some are illegal but each drug is used in some form of way. People with addiction to drugs fight their own war to either get help that they always wanted or finding drugs to help them stay high. The book Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari is about people's history on drugs and how they got addicted to it or how they recovered from it. Harri gets personal stories from each individual he meets about their struggles with drugs and the journey they went through to get to where they are today. He also talks about theories on how to end the war on drugs and how
painting which also ties into the scene being set at night in the darkness. Contrast is used well to
As most of you probably know, this is The Scream, artist Edvard Munch’s most famous and influential work.
In his painting, there is a term to expressing how light varies from its original light. For instance, the background of the painting is adding with brown color, yet using tint and shade effect to the sun sets with distinctive brightness. Brightness is adjusted by horizontal movement, and Breton increases, and decreases his painting’s brightness at the background view. Upper part of the pieces, twilight shines with varying brightness, depending on the darkness of the sky surface. Brightness for the mid-gray tones in the surrounding space, with significantly affecting the highlights and shadows. Overall painting allows depress emotion. Figures is luminous such as the sky and houses, also for the woman, she is apparently describing with a energetic sense of natural, and mournful atmosphere. The light at the back part of the drawing gives viewers to pay attention to the woman rather than the background, since there is bright white T-shirt with dress, and the woman’s face. Breton uses tint and shade effect at the upper part of the painting, and clouding of the back scene maintains a tenderness. Breton uses bright light at the sun sets, and it expressed that it was the dawn and bring message with a bright future will come soon to the woman, and the
The feel of the picture lends to emotions of unease and recognition of sexual innuendo. The colors of the painting are vibrant, but for the most part are dark. The heavy tones and shades of the colors are well balanced throughout the piece. It can be noted that the brightest shades of color are found on areas depicting the actual woman. In areas that are understood as landscape, the colors are more dreary and create a sense of instability. Even Hess observes that the
The shapes of the figures are sharply defined and the objects such as the table, book, and string instruments. There are diagonal rhythms throughout the painting in which it creates movement. The light source in the upper left allows the source light to have a more natural appearance throughout the painting. The shadows at the right-hand corner and the men wearing green in the middle contrast the main object with the most sources of lighting. The objects shadows and lighting create dimension and a vivid sense of more contrast. There are areas in the making with more contrast and the sharp contrast that creates movement in the painting. The shadows and the lighting throughout the painting show gradations and the highlights create more depth. Staring from the upper-left hand corner with the first figure of a gentleman wearing a hue of blue and yellow, the left side of his face and garment shows the source light in right above him. The source light above the
The first thing that stands out in this painting is the color scheme. From far away, the warm colors of orange, tan, and mahogany seem inviting. The home seems friendly under a slice of turquoise sky. Shadows heighten the look of the fading sunlight upon the
Color is highly evident in this painting, and helps to draw the viewer’s eye to certain places in the painting. The café is yellow, and adds a boisterous feeling to that section of the piece. The yellow light spills onto the street and walls of the town, creating bright colors and drawing the eye. The sky and town use dark colors to illustrate nighttime, although the bright spots of the stars cause the viewer to look to the sky.
When one looks at the painting White light, an array of colors spring off the canvas and permeate one’s senses. The primary and intense color of red is softened by the primary colors of yellow and blue. While the tertiary color of green subtly takes its place among the hues to give some balance. The perceivable tones of black and white add value and seem to give some
The Scream by Edvard Munch is an example of how artists can emphasise the emotional aspects of a character through distinctive images. Distinctive images allow artists to convey how emotions allow individuals to become distorted from their surroundings. The painting by Munch consists of a lone salient emaciated figure with an agonised body expression. The distressed figure bends and is contorted and through the subject’s facial expression and body language , the audience feels a sense of pain and anguish.