Edvard Munch Scream

Edvard Munch, a name that is most commonly related with late 20th century expression art. Munch was born in Norway in the year 1863, and was raised in Christiania which is now today known as Oslo. Five years after he was born, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was raised by his father for the rest of his childhood. During his childhood, his father Christian Munch, suffered from a mental illness. His mental illness included raging anger, depression, as well as visions of spirits. The way Edvard and his other siblings were raised. There father often read Edgar Allen Poe ghost stories. These instilled images of death and anxiety in Edvard, even though he was just a young child. He was closely related to other famous painters such as Jacob Munch who was also a painter. During the 1800’s he discovered the writings of the anarchist philosopher, Hans Jaeger. They formed a close friendship and Munch was encouraged to sketch personal events in his work. After that he created that drawing,

I think that this painting was greatly influenced by his father's mental illness which he was exposed to as a child. After looking at the painting for awhile I think that this was an expression of mental anguish. As if the seemingly sexless dark figured pictured is the conscious of Edvard Munch screaming out at the world. I think this painting was an expression of how he felt and what he was experiencing mentally. As for the red sky, I think that it may be red because he pictured it as the blood of his foes or even his own blood. I think that this might have even been an outcry to society and how expressing hate towards others is common. Overall I think that this painting was is most definitely an image of what was Edvard was experiencing mentally because his father did not support his carreer choice of becoming an artist. Maybe it is a image of a hallucination he