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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.
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Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked with anxiety and uncertainty.
Essentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. Fitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at a time when his mind was in an abnormal state, Munch renders it in...
The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later.
The 1895 pastel-on-board version of the painting was sold at Sotheby's for a record US$120 million at auction on 2 May 2012. The previous record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction had been held by Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Picasso, which went for US$106.5 million at Christie's two years prior on 4 May 2010. When accounting for ...
Feb 24, 2017 · 'The Scream' is one of the most iconic paintings in the world, but what is it about?By watching this video you'll learn the major facts about 'The Scream' by...
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This, of course, is The Scream, by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch – the second most famous image in art history, after Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Everything is suffused with a sense of primal ...
Dec 15, 2021 · The Scream was painted in 1893, which was the first version that Munch painted with tempera medium, however, he also produced a copy in pastel, also in 1893. He then created another pastel copy in 1895 and a painting in 1910. There is also a lithograph version of The Scream created in 1895.
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The German title Munch gave these works is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The works show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time." Edvard Munch created the four versions in various media.