You may have seen Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, without knowing it as it has been featured in various movies and television shows such as The Simpsons, The Looney Tunes movie, and Home Alone. This painting is one of the first paintings to emphasize a sound. (Not only is the main person screaming but the setting also seems to be yelling as well.) The main character of the painting looks as if he is screaming and the setting seems to depict something tense almost as if it is yelling or screaming as well. The painting originally called Verzweiflung, meaning despair in (?), was part of a three part series called the “frieze of Life which dealt with emotional life, presumably applicable to all modern humans”(here you should have the author of this quote and the page number ie. (Reynolds, 30) like that). This series was Munch’s favorite subject as it touched on the topics of Love, Anxiety and Death. (Throughout Edvard’s life events you can see why he was so passionate about these topics.) These three topics had a big impact in his life, and as a result were very influential in his paintings.
Edvard Munch was born in Norway in 1863, to Christian Munch and his wife Cathrine; he was the second of 5 children. Unfortunately he was exposed to death at the very early age of 5, when his mother died of Tuberculosis. At that time his mother’s sister took care of him and his other siblings. It was her that sparked his interest in the arts with her skill set as an amateur painter. He soon began to develop an amazing talent. During his early teens Edvard and his sister Sophie made a pact with each other to never have children, because his family was “plagued with mental illness, diseases”. Munch wrote in his diary “I have always put my a...
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... to be coming from under the bridge. This explains why (hence why he is leaned over the bridge) the character is leaning over the bridge.
(SO THE LAST PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE A CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH) Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream has left a significant impact on the painting world. This brilliant painting is well known and respected internationally and was recently sold for 119.9 million dollars at an auction in New York City. One of the four paintings can also be found on the fifth floor of the Munch museum in Oslo. This piece has been interpreted in so many ways that even modern day car commercials use it as a way to promote cars, and as previously stated has been seen in movies and television. Although Edvard Munch’s paintings were initially representations of his tragic life events, his art such as the painting The Scream, continues to influence artists today.
Drug addiction is on the largest contributing factors for the deaths of millions of people throughout out the ages. Todays day in age drugs have become more dangerously more potent than they were a decade back. The majority of the population believe that the reason addicts become hooked on drugs because the the chemical triggers found in the drug. This has caused many society as a whole to look down on drug addicts and treat them with less respect than anyone who is not a drug addict. Johann Hari is an english author and journalist who was published articles in newspapers like the New York times, Huffington post and the Guardian, Hari has published his own book Chasing the Scream were he goes into a three year journey on the war on drugs.
And last but not least is the villain in these movies. Most of the killers in these films are portrayed as mentally deranged and/or has some type of facial or bodily deformation and who have been traumatized at an early age. Even though these characters terrorized and murder people they have taken on the persona of anti-heroes in pop culture. Characters like Halloween’s Michael Myers, A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees have become the reason to go see these movies. However, over time,”their familiarity and the audience’s ability to identify and sympathize with them over the protagonist made these villains less threatening (Slasher Film (5))”.
Visually, both Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition VII and Jackson Pollock’s No. 2 constitute a chaotic arrangement of colors and images with no apparent relation to one another. The randomly scattered paint, large canvas, and over-clamped figures all build a similar visual chaos in both paintings. Despite the mayhem, the two paintings differ in the inner emotions each artist wanted to express and the nature of the “chaos.” While for Kandinsky the chaos represents the smooth and melodic sentiments raised by music, for Pollock the chaos depicts the more spontaneous and impulsive emotions. The authors’ differing goals lead Kandinsky to ponder and refine his painting to capture a more universal theme and Pollock to develop his “drip” painting method
The article Artists Mythologies and Media Genius, Madness and Art History (1980) by Griselda Pollock is a forty page essay where Pollock (1980), argues and explains her views on the crucial question, "how art history works" (Pollock, 1980, p.57). She emphasizes that there should be changes to the practice of art history and uses Van Gogh as a major example in her study. Her thesis is to prove that the meaning behind artworks should not be restricted only to the artist who creates it, but also to realize what kind of economical, financial, social situation the artist may have been in to influence the subject that is used. (Pollock, 1980, pg. 57) She explains her views through this thesis and further develops this idea by engaging in scholarly debates with art historians and researcher, and objecting to how they claim there is a general state of how art is read. She structures her paragraphs in ways that allows her to present different kinds of evidences from a variety sources while using a formal yet persuasive tone of voice to get her point across to the reader.
In stark contrast to the naturalistic, photorealism of “Judith and Holofernes,” O’Keeffe’s painting favors colors over humanity, and darkness over warm lighting. Not to say this takes away from the beauty portrayed in the piece; quite the opposite in fact. The portrait, similar to its title, provides an atmosphere of perplexing mystery and oppressive claustrophobia. While both works feature an underlying theme of horror, “Dark Abstraction” goes about relaying this emotion by employing a far subtler method. O’Keeffe’s painting is nightmarish due to the dreamlike logic featured within the canvas. It’s frightening in a way one cannot express easily. For example, when one awakens from a nightmare, any attempt to decipher the thoughts running through one’s mind and varied emotions enclosed in one’s chest is often met with failure. This is why “Dark Abstraction” perfectly accompanies “Judith and Holofernes”; Gentileschi’s painting is a narrative speaking to one’s eyes, while O’Keeffe’s painting speaks to one’s emotions. Both are equally memorable, however different they appear on first
In A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness has incorporated death in such a way that, it overwhelms the text and adds an upsetting sense to the story. Death is the hardest an upsetting time of life, but we all have to go through it one day. At the end of the story, Conor learns that he can not avoid death and loss, but he learns to cope with them, which is the real truth that the monster was searching for. Death is a constant theme and is on every page due to Conor's mother's cancer. One of the central aspects that Conor went through during the difficult times was isolation. An example of this is in the chapter, Invisible. His classmates were emotionally ignoring him due to his mother's illness.
In 1885, Munch won a scholarship to study in Paris. While in France, he began working on his realistic approach, and completed, “The Sick Child,” which was a piece reflecting on the devastating death of his sister, Sophie. He continued on with this expressionism based on painful personal experiences, and received a great amount of negative criticism.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel of a mad scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a hideous human creature made up of body parts. In his attempt at playing god and bringing his creation alive into the world, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster. Although the creator’s creation is pushed towards evil, it becomes obvious that Victor Frankenstein himself is the monster because he creates a human creature whom he abandons and fails to take responsibility for.
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
One of my favorite film franchises is the Nightmare On Elm Street series. Freddy Krueger is one of modern horror’s most recognized, beloved and feared icons, with his trademark weathered fedora, burned skin, striped red-and-green sweater, and bladed glove. The lovechild of the late, great Wes Craven, Nightmare On Elm Street saved New Line Cinema from financial despair & was instrumental to their recovery, affectionately nicknaming the studio “The House That Freddy Built.” When you glimpse into this staple of horror, it becomes easy to understand how the series scores on every Top List of successful horror franchises.
From an early age, van Gogh was heavily influenced by art. Both his brother and uncle belonged to a Paris-based art dealership, providing exposure to the contemporary art of the time. Heavily influenced by master artist such as Millet and Rembrandt, van Gogh focused much of his early work on human figures, drawing on shadows and light rather than color to create dimension. At the same time that van Gogh was developing his skills as an artist, a series of unfortunate events plague his life. A failed love affair, his father’s death, and a short-lived period of study at the Antwerp Academy help set the stage for what would be a life of hardship and perceived failure. At the same time, van Gogh developed a longing to serve humanity and took an
Edvard Munch, a famous world known painter from Norway, was able to express his suppressed feelings of fear and anxiety onto a canvas with an ability that both amazed and scared the people of the world. He used his anxiety of life, love and death, to inspire people, and let them see the troubles in his life. Edvard Munch is especially known for his works ‘The scream’ and ‘Madonna’.
In the Story Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami, Toru Watanabe is a lonely middle aged Japanese man who finds himself engulfed in nostalgia upon hearing a cover of the popular Beatles song “Norwegian Wood”. The powerful memories of his experiences seem to be connected to the song as he relates to the song in many aspects as a youth but triggers dark memories in him as an adult. The novel is autobiographical and the narrator, Toru, gives an account of his past life and experiences in college with nostalgic emotions especially for his young loves. He remembers himself as a peaceful, independent Japanese undergraduate student in the 1960s, who begins to fall in love with Naoko after Kizuki (Naoko 's sweetheart and Toru 's closest companion) commits suicide. Unfortunately, Naoko is overpowered with her life 's weights and her grief for Kizuki and hence rejects Toru 's friendship for the isolation she finds inside of her own contracting and separated world inside a sanatorium. The rejected Toru reluctantly contacts Midori, a candid and sexually confident young lady who is everything that Naoko can 't be. Throughout the story, Toru recalls each of the other significant people in his life at the time, each of them grappling with loneliness in their own ways. The novel is a deep
Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is a horror film that debuted in 1960, starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. (IMDb) This horror film changed the horror movie genre, helping to develop it into what it is today. This film tells the story of a woman who runs off with $40,000 stolen from her boss. On the run, she checks into an abandoned motel for the night where she dines with the owner, a young man with an overbearing and controlling mother. She never checks out. Her family and friends embark on searches for her, and come across the abandoned hotel where she checked in, under a false name. The movie ends with the revelation that the hotel owner’s mother died, and he suffers from multiple personality disorder. Both he and his mother share his body, with the mother personality becoming more dominant. When he dined with the lady who checked in, the mother became jealous and kill her, leaving the son to clean up the mess left behind.
This is clear through the various mid-shots of the children hiding in furniture having the audience understand on a larger scale the fear that they would have felt which is loosely similar to characters hiding from a serial killer in many horror films. A striking example of this scene is the fact that there is a close-up shot of a cupboard with a child squashed inside, the use of the prop of a cupboard is rather ironic as in concentration camps they would make the Jews make furniture, but the cupboard is essentially somewhat symbolic because it represents escapism, a chance to block out the world and retreat especially within this context. As well as that scene, the close ups of children’s faces with different shades of lighting highlights a split between what they are forced to do (be kept in the dark) versus what they want to do (be free). The use of dark colours is instantly an example of horror iconography as this colour alludes to something sinister or evil. Nevertheless, most horror films nowadays focus on a lot of violence and Schindler’s List is an example of this through the Liquidation of the Ghetto scene. The powerful diegetic sound of a baby crying adds to the eerie sensation by manipulating the audience into feeling quite uncomfortable but also sympathetic at the prospect of an innocent man dead. Yet again, it is the sound that is very powerful because the diegetic sound of a woman wailing layered with a child screaming is distressing and alarming for the spectator as they are just as vulnerable as the characters on