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The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch.
Edvard Munch (/ m ʊ ŋ k / MUUNK; [1] Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ⓘ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
Original – The Scream is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including The Scream, had a formative influence on the Expressionist movement.
The Munch Museum is the most important collection of works of any medium by Edvard Munch. Other major collections include the National Gallery in Oslo, which holds the famous 1893 tempera and crayon on cardboard version of The Scream amongst other major paintings. [citation needed]
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Norwegian police said two climate activists tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at an Oslo museum and no harm was reported to the painting ...
The Scream, Edvard Munch. The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of many versions of a composition, created as paintings, pastels, and lithographs [13] by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.
Edvard Munch. Support as nominator--Sir Richardson 16:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC) Conditional support If this is or is close to the same dimensions as the original. --I'ḏ ♥ One 17:34, 29 August 2010 (UTC) I assume by “dimensions” you mean the aspect ratio. A quick Google-Image search shows it is close, if not perfectly correct. I was more ...