![]() 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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