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

The Romantic era ascribed to the idea of the sublime - an idea that human emotions, all human emotions including horror, fear, and pain, produced an exhilarating thrill. In order to experience the full gamut of human emotion and the resultant high, the Romantics believed people should embrace all emotions, including the dark ones. However, experiencing horror and pain first hand were clearly detrimental, as witnessed with the mass executions of the French Revolution, but viewing these emotions from a removed setting, such as in art, poetry, and literature, allowed people to experience the thrill and complete exhilaration offered by the human experience. Often art and literature of the Romantic era depicted both horror and delight to offer a complete thrill and exploration of the human psyche. Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare nicely embodies the idea of exploring both horror and sensuality. The subject of the painting is a young woman sleeping. On her chest sits a demon, gazing searchingly at the viewer as a ghostly horse looks on the scene in the background. Fuseli offers a bizarre image that so captivated his contemporaries that he painted several variations on the theme and the imagery continues to fascinate viewers 200 years later. Instead of cringing in horror at the demon on her chest, the woman’s back is arched sensuously, her arms hanging from her sleeping couch in complete surrender, yet

Poe who wrote "The Mask Of The Red Death" 200 years ago was not talking about modern day Ebola. Modern day Ebola takes up to 3 months to die. Red death kills the people faster then 30 min.

I was fortuned to have had parents who had a respect for all kinds of art and approached life with an open mind. Thus being furthered blessed to grow up near a metropolis which possesses a major art museum and galleries showcasing new talent, filling young eyes with wonderment. An art appreciation study early own in life would have been beneficial but alas, I burn with shame as one who falls in the class of “I know what I like” when asked about art. I am all agog for semester’s end to be better equipped to articulate on why I am moved by a particular piece. After listening to the first week lecture and reading the first two chapters of the course text, it was difficult to narrow the subject of my essay to one subject. But, Chapter Ones quotes

Edvard Munch is regarded as the pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognised in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art, that helped artists to express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them.

Love is perhaps one of the most contested issues in the world. No one has a precise definition of what love really should look or feel like. Most people have resorted to use their own experiences in love to effectively derive its true meaning. Through these experiences, philosophers have argued that the definition of love varies greatly depending on whether it was given by a man or a woman. This is however not the case. As proven by the narratives of Beauvoir and Sartre, the definitions of love derived from the experiences of both men and women are quite similar. Consequentially, Beauvoir’s account of the woman in love sheds important light on Sartre’s conflicting thought about love. By first highlighting the concepts of love as stated by Beauvoir, this text seeks to establish how Beauvoir’s account of love lays a vital foundation for Sartre’s.

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

In this painting, we can see a person (man) with a pale face, standing near a barrier with chaotic environment view in the background. The person in this painting is screaming, and we can detect that he is screaming because of his expression. The impression is that, his mouth and eyes are really open with his hands on each sides of his face. In the background of this painting, we can see different colors who indicate us the chaotic environment such as bloody red, orange, deep blue, and black colors. Furthermore, behind the main character we can see two people standing with their black silhouettes.

Esquivel showed love in a whole other aspect from life in the movie and novel “Like Water for Chocolate”. This movie and novel is about monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies. Love was very powerful and changed everybody’s life, it kept some people around, made some people leave and it even made some people die. Love is something that can take over someone’s mind, soul and body. When two people are in love no one and nothing can get in the way of those two individuals from being together. When you’re in love you’ll do just about anything to keep yourself and the one you love happy. For example in “Like Water for Chocolate” Pedro was so in love with Tita that’s when it came time

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

In the manner of a true Expressionist painter, Munch uses color to express his emotional reactions to his environment, commenting on the "red" sky and the "bluish black" fjord, described almost as an all-consuming black hole hell where "tongues of fire" viciously lick at the weary and overwhelmed subject, which is a genderless figure. While there is certainly something gloomy about Munch's description of The Scream landscape, the repeated use of the word "blood" in combination with the twirling, swirling, and whirling warm tones used to paint the background suggest actual physical

Around the turn of the century many artists were trying to lay the foundation for modern art. In the 1880’s and 1890’s Art Nouveau, an international style of decoration and architecture urbanized. New developments also included, Post Impressionism, which “rejected the objective naturalism of impressionism and used form and color in more personally expressive ways.” At the time Romanticism, a growing artistic movement, was popular to artists like Runge, Goya, Blake and Friedrick, all who inspired Munch during the various stages of his artistic life. However, when compared to other artists of the time, Munch was new and ingenious. Able too courageously and dispassionately “reveal his innermost secrets of his own life,

According to edvardmunch.org, Edvard Munch’s painting “Separation” painted in 1896, like his other paintings, represented German expressionism. Expressionist paintings portray profound mental torment and have dark, gloomy undertones. The dark nature of his paintings is in part due to the fact that his father suffered from a mental illness, which profoundly impacted his upbringing. However, his paintings from about 1892 to 1908 reveal his interest in nature and are brighter than all of his previous work. Munch expresses the nature of his soul through symbolizing the natural world rather than just superficially painting what is visible to the eye. His painting Separation is an epitome of these characteristics in the context of love, showing the

Edvard Munch is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognized in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new movement in art. Munch and many artists of the time needed to express their feelings about all the change that was happening around.

reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and