![]() But the fence still protects it from total absorption In the foreground unified nature has come close to crossing the fence, close enough to distort the form and personality of the protagonist. Safe in this rational world, the two men in theĭistance remain unequivocally masculine. Set up a defense, in the form of the plunging perspective of the roadway and its fence, which preserves a rational world of three dimensions, holding at bay the swell of art nouveau curves. At the top of another version of the subject (National Gallery, Oslo) he wrote: 'Can only have been painted by a madman.' He certainly had a horror of insanity, which had afflicted his sister Laura. He soon abandoned the style and rarely if ever again subjected a foreground figure to this kind of radical and systematicĭistortion. Several facts indicate Munch was aware of the danger of art of this sort for a neurotic humanist like himself. The creature in the foreground has been depersonalized and crushed into sexlessness or, if anything, stamped withĪ trace of the femininity of the world that has come close to assimilating it. It was Munch himself who underwent the experience depicted, the protagonist bears no resemblance to him or anyone else. Here, however, in depicting his own morbid experience, he has let go, andĪllowed the foreground figure to become distorted by the subjectivized flow of nature the scream could be interpreted as expressing the agony of the obliteration of human personality by this unifying force. ![]() Beginning at this time Munch included art nouveau elements in many pictures but usually only in a limited or modified way. But man is part of nature, and absorption into such a Nouveau represent a subjective linear fusion imposed upon nature, whereby the multiplicity of particulars is unified into a totality of organic suggestion with feminine overtones. As previously noted, the flowing curves of art Of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked with anxiety and uncertainty.Įssentially 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.įitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at a time when his mind was in an abnormal state, Munch renders it in a style which if pushed to extremes can destroy human integrity. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed, 1940Ĭourtesy of Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time.Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1896.
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