"The Scream"

The artist that I've chosen to write about is Edvard Munch (1863-1944).  He was a norwegin painter who evocative  treatment of psychological themes built tenets of the late 19th century and influenced German Expressionism.  Born december 12, 1865 he was raised by his father who suffered from menatl illness.  His father used fear of hell and deep rooted issuess which lead to why Edvard work took a deeper tone.  Munch was influenced by impressionism artist Claude Monet, Edward Manet and Von Gogh.  A majority of his work depicts life, death, love, terror and feelings of loneliness.  The emotions were depicted by his use of lines, the darkes colors, blocks of color and somber tones, which depicted the darker side of the art he designed.

The title of the piece is "The Scream" (1893)

My interpertation of the piece is genderless person with to figures in the background with their backs turned as if to not wanting to bare witness to this persons anguish.  It dipicts a moment of psychic calamity.  The techniques used are cartoonish like the figures face. The colors are from one end of the color specturm to the other from dark to bright.  The colors are ultramarine blue, lead, white, cadmium yellow, pale blue, pale orange, red and green just to name a few.  And finally he used Linseed oil with beeswax one of the four versions of this piece.