Appréciation des peintures célèbres-Munch « Le cri »

author: sun flower

2024-03-19

The Scream is a 1893 painting by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, in four versions: the first version in 1893 as an egg white wood panel, the second in 1893 as a wax block painting, the third version in 1895 as a pastel wood panel, and the fourth version as an oil on egg white wood panel.
The main body of the painting is an expression of extreme pain against a blood-red background. In Munch's eyes at the time, the Oslo Fjord was filled with shivering, blood-red hallucinations that made people feel frightened and even disgusting. In The Scream, Munch's use of colors, although consistent with the authenticity of natural colors, is extremely exaggerated in the way of expression, showing his own feelings, and the distorted lines in the painting contrast sharply with the thick and straight of the bridge, Munch expresses the dull, anxious and lonely emotions in the painting to the extreme. In this painting, Munch's colors maintain a certain degree of connection with nature. Although the blue water, the brown ground, the green trees, and the red sky are all exaggerated and expressive, they do not lose the general authenticity of their colors. The colors of the whole painting are sombre: a heavy blood-red hues hovering above the horizon give a sense of foreboding. It clashes with the purple of the shady part of the sea, which grows darker as it reaches into the distance. The same purple color is repeated on the clothes of lonely people. His hands and head were left in a pale, bleak brownish-gray color.

The 90s of the 19th century was the era of the prevalence of new ideas in Europe, and it was also the most glorious period of Munch's creation, he devoted himself to the conception and creation of the "Life" group of paintings, at this time the works were full of philosophy and a sense of the times, and his artistic ideas matured. The fragility of life, the decline of the family, loneliness, fear, and despair have long plagued Munch's heart, and he has endured a lot of hardships that others can hardly feel, and he wants to cry out.
The location in The Scream is the Oslo Fjord overlooking from Mount Urkeberry. One evening, Munch walked along the seaside promenade with two friends at a time. On one side of the road is the city, on the other side is the fjord. Tired and sickly, Munch stopped and looked over the fjord. At sunset, the clouds were dyed red like blood. Munch was perched on the railing, exhausted and anxious depressed emotions out of control. As his friends walked on, he fell behind, and he felt a piercing scream pass through the heavens and the earth, and Munch stopped and trembled with unease. Such horror and despair finally erupted into a cry of a lonely and terrible life.

The Scream is often considered Munch's first expressionist painting, and it is also the original embodiment of Munch's concept of writing "soul". The expression of painting depends more on the feeling at the time of creation, and the composition of strong colors red, yellow, blue, and green, as well as the bold distortion of light and heavy, slow and orderly, and the use of lines with different lengths and thicknesses are shocking, and the picture presents a high degree of perspective technique. The screaming figure trembled all over, his face turned pale, and his frightened eyes revealed all kinds of loss and confusion. The blood-red background, the turbulent, drastic lines cannot be taken from reality, it comes from Munch's life experience of loneliness and fear. The work transcends the senses and expresses what is deepest. Just like the ideals of the painter.