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    Looking like a scene out of a horror movie, The Scream is one of the most famous Expressionist paintings in the world. During the end of the nineteenth century, Expressionism arose as an art movement, wherein poets and artists began to use their works to express their inner feelings and emotions (Wolf). One of the influential expressionists at that period was Edvard Munch, who was a Norwegian artist and who painted The Scream in four distinct versions, from tempera to pastel to crayon (Shabi). After

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    One’s mental disability can be temporarily alleviated by physical means, though it can never be completely obliterated. Edmund Munch’s “The Scream” expresses radical emotions through his display of mysterious shapes and shadows, as well as strong colors. Analysis painting reveals that his mental state was affected by “The Scream” which emphasizes his “honest, even ugly glimpse of his inner troubles and feelings of anxiety” (Shabi). He goes on to describe the nature in a dark way using symbolism

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    Specifically, are there artists whose creative practice might be viewed as art therapy? There are artists that have used their art to work through pain and mental illness. Edvard Munch is best known for ‘The Scream’, many of his other works also explore intense psychological themes. He suffered from deep depression during his lifetime and his art often reflected events that happened to him. “Sickness insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and

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    The scream will forever haunt me. I hear “EMILYYYYY” on replay all day in my head. I can still make out the despair and sorrow in her voice. I later found out that Emily Roland, a twenty year old student at the University of Minnesota, had fallen to her death at a place I had been just ten minutes before the fall. It makes me think about if times had changed, and I would have been the one to fall. This haunts me. It all started with the desire to feel the adrenaline rush of urban explorations

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    Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” inspired numerous other works of art, my piece included. Appropriately titled “The Shining,” it plays off of Munch’s work created in 1893, although containing a very different subject matter. Munch’s piece captures raw emotion and immediately demands attention. The use of contrasting lines in this work form a unique composition, each one having a specific purpose. For example, the curvilinear lines in the sky mimic those of the main figure, while the straight lines in

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    The Scream by Edvard Munch was painted in 1893 during a transitional period in art history between the Realist and Expressionist era. There are four versions of this painting but the most famous of them all is composed of oil, tempura, and pastel on cardboard. Munch’s inspiration came from a peaceful evening walk when he peered down over the Norwegian landscape and suddenly heard an “infinite scream of nature” from the distance. In his artwork, Edvard Munch uses an array of colors, lines, and contrast

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    The Scream by Edvard Munch (Terrified) Edvard Munch, artist of the famous painting The Scream, lost his loving mother from tuberculosis when he was only five years old. Adding on to this tragedy, his older sister also passed from tuberculosis when he was thirteen. Since Munch never got married and lived a fairly lonesome life, he often referred to his paintings as his children and spend an endless amount of time with them. The painting titled The Scream, by Edvard Munch, was created in 1893 after

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    Munch's Painting Scream Munich Edvard Munch is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of expressionism. Edvard Munch was quoted as saying "We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want to create, or at least lay the foundations of, an art that gives something to humanity. An art that arrests and engages. An art created of one's innermost heart." I believe in The Scream Munch did just

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    time are genuinely petite. That is what most would consider beautiful and all women strive to be in order to one day wife a wealthy man. The painting called The Scream, is a piece of art that could debatably be considered beautiful. Thus, what really determines if art is truly beautiful? Edvard Munch’s 1893 modern art painting called The Scream is one of the most famous paintings of all time. Edvard Munch’s painting is famous for its bountiful colors, the effulgent sky, and not to mention the individual

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    Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream is one of the most recognized pieces of art throughout history. He created this masterpiece in the year of 1893 and continued on to create three different versions of the painting (Paulson). The image shows a deathly pale, skull shaped head man clutching his hands over his ears, facing the audience, screaming with his mouth opened wide. There are two silhouettes behind the screaming man on the left hand side of the bridge, while the sky is bloody and the water in

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