so i have a kind of out there thought -
in the painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch (1893)
what do you think the man is screaming at? or about? is he scared? upset? angry?
i have always loved art and the study of art - and i have always wondered.
thoughts?
5 comments:
It seems like the man is screaming about chaos or something. The curves in the picture act like symbols indicating that the world is moving fast around this one person. I've always wondered the meaning behind this painting, but I don't necessarily think that he is scared... it gives off the feeling that he is overwhelmed by the world around him because of all the colors and wild strokes.
Giuli's idea is totally plausible and I completly agree that that can be one interpritation of what it is depicting. But I thought of another.
I feel like the sky kind of looks like flowing blood. And the dusk coming from the bottom could represent the evil that's taking over in the world.
I feel like the man is screaming because he's finally realized that he is a part of the evil now. That it's coming for him just as it came for every one around him. His worst fear. He is being trapped by the evil and will conform to it even though truthfully he disagrees.
In my opinion, I do not think the man is screaming at all. i think he is surprised after realizing something he never knew before
such as looking at the horizon and realizing that the earth is round. There are endless possiblilites on what the man could be expressing and i think the painter purpously did this to make the viewer think and interpret it themselves.
i think the man is just lost and screaming. he can't find himself yet. the people walking in the background looks calm and peaceful. the way the colors blend in and are painted looks like it is flowing one way. the colors used are dark. i think that he feels trapped within himself and can't "get out". he wants to somehow let himself go but can't.
I think the man is having a bout of vertigo from standing on the bridge, and is trying to hold his head in place, screaming in horror as his entire field of vision is getting shaken like a snowglobe in the hands of a hyperactive six year old.
I like the swervy lines of the painting, as if it is suggesting that reality is not a solid thing, but is fluid and easily subject to change.
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