Wtawt: Edvard Munch's "cry"

WTAWT (what the artist wants to tell) should actually be fun to beat a few high -spirited capers from thoughts to famous works of art in the world in order to stimulate the reader for further mental capers - free art, freedom of art and freedom, for all people.

So Edvard Munch's "cry" actually doesn't fit into this category at all, after all, the "scream" together with Picasso's war drama "Guernica" , Damien Hirst's diamond -occupied skull "for the love of God" and other known hideousness counts on the works that can at least teach the viewer scary.

But creep and death is a quota racer, as shown by entire television evenings, on which there is no other way to see than crime novels or reality documentary of a quality that is even more hopeless than death and creep.

And the art leaders naturally swim in the mainstream, as the exhibition "Lust for horror-forms of expression of horror" in 2015 showed 70 particularly gruesome paintings, graphics and sculptures that could be seen in the painting gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts (some of the collection highlights can be further viewed during the justice Munch's "cry" is not enough).

At the same time, the "cry" is definitely a place in this category because it is one of the most famous pictures in our world. A person of today cannot escape the "scream" if he communicates with people over "big-brother level", he urges himself from many sides, as with the people who think about WTAWT here:

Free art view

After careful consideration, Mia decided to study free art. Engineers and IT specialists are said to be the most in demand at the moment and will probably continue to have good prospects in the future, their parents urged this direction, after all, they have always reached good grades in MINT subjects.

Unfortunately, her busy parents had completely escaped that, with a small exceptions to men at their high school, they were taught by men who, after the turn of the millennium-were still of the opinion that girls had no talent for MINT subjects. It is not true, but at least these men managed to do that Mia could not develop the passion for one of these two future -determining subjects that are needed for the choice of career.

Doesn't matter, Mia now has a quiet idea that art can express itself in engineering art and IT art as in oil paints and watercolor, sound or bronze. In addition, she now has a quiet idea that she tends to be too wide as a wide range than too closely specialized. Your path will probably be to work with specialists and to learn from a specialist area so much that she can admire the knowledge of a passionate specialist and can benefit from it.

She also has an idea that a properly used internet can always help her with the knowledge of knowledge if a certain area of ​​expertise in school has been treated "with interest".

After moving away from the idea of ​​"engineer or IT", the parents suggested business and law, for which politically interested Mia is currently impossible, "immoral" subjects. Mia chose the art because after thorough information about many courses, she had not found many other studies that made it possible to test their own talents free, therefore free art, "free" also in the spirit of the motto: "If I have to expect to spend a good part of my professional activity in unpaid internships or poorly paid part-time jobs anyway, I can also study what I really enjoy". But at least, free art also makes activities in the craft or teaching possible, and these professions are currently increasing again.

Mia likes her studies, but in the seminar she has had a big chunk in the seminar , a thick chunk, a look at one of the most famous paintings in the world, Edvard Munch's "scream", with express instructions, only using facts that are only prohibited, the work with evaluating and descriptive secondary literature is prohibited.

Together with the fellow students Leon, Finn and Noah, they initially divided the consideration, in "pure perception" (Noah) and "pure sensation" (mia), "perception against the background of the determined facts" (Finn) and "sensation against the background of the determined facts" (Leon).

Noah and Mia developed the templates in a first round, Finn and Leon have developed facts. In the first meeting, facts, sensations and perceptions are exchanged, Noah and Mia will now complement the pure perception and sensation with the impressions obtained from the facts separately, Finn and Leon are put down from their background work, so that facts, perceptions and sensations are four times mirrors , everything is put together in the final discussion.

Noahs was initially quite irritated in the "pure perception" because he found very different "screams". A more or less accentuated figure screams on everyone, but when it comes to "cry 1", the two people go to the screaming in the background, in "Screech 2" they look into the water, in "Screech 3" the two people act differently in the background, the two people move from the screaming in "Scream 4". Then he finds a "cry", a lithograph that looks a little different again, only the two people in the background also move away from the screaming.

Mia of course also noticed this, but could not gain any major differences from the various "screams" in terms of sensation.

Rather, the fact that Edvard Munch's "cry" is not a "scream", but that he painted four of them. Since Mia true to the task initially wanted to collect the pure sensations, she does not yet know that Edvard Munch's thoughts circled for 17 years to paint from screaming ... but 4 x "cry" is enough for her that this painter would not suggest that without any knowledge of his circumstances (which Mia already already has) (of course) that he knows the friendly side of the world.

There are certainly enough for everyone who dare to look at the world, then as today to scream enough - but at some point the normal person becomes happy again and takes care of the more pleasant things in life.

Mia writes a long sequence of emotional keywords related to illness, death, tendency towards consumption, over -nose, insane pietistic powderiness, guilt feelings, thoughts of death, hallucinations, melancholy, jealousy, unfortunate love, rheumatic fever, crisis, triangle relationship, bad criticism, shock, persecution, nerve crisis, ever worse, alcoholism, industrialization, moralization Degeneration, violence, painted delirium, criminal, shame, scorned, outsider, politically radical, dangerous, grief, isolation, loneliness, loss, depressive mood, melancholy, tension between illusion and reality, problem area, impending, oppressive, inner turmoil, mysterious shapes, lovesickness, blood, tongues from fire, death, ability to live, mask faces, cat facility, catfish. and vampire properties, low, loss, longing, fear, huge cave -like eyes, foreign bodies, unfathomable, unpredictable, suffering, blood flowers, enclosed, threat, decay, agony, pain, sin, dark threat, despair, murderer, stiff, frightened, disappointed, rush, lit to Christ, mockery, Demonic, distorted face, sexless, removal, fear of persecution, hell, emotional disorder, blows of fate, dark, cry for help, dark soul life, all from an essay about the "symbolism" in the work and - no longer feels like.

It also creates a list of all known phobias from the very suitable Achluophobia, fear of darkness, about nomophobia (for cheering, that is the fear of being contact us without mobile phone) to zoophobia, fear of animals; After that, she first has to insert a phase with consistently happy to silly sensations so as not to be unpainted for the rest of her life.

Finn presents the facts and initially arranges the "screams" (which Noah has brought into the right order for reasons not known, which everyone considers a good sign of the success of the art view):

1. "The scream" , Edvard Munch, 1893, pastel on wood, 74 × 56 cm, hangs today in the Munch Museum Oslo. With this scream, the eyes are only hinted at, the mouth is slightly inclined to the left, the two people in the background go to the screaming.

2. "The scream" , Edvard Munch, 1893, tempera on cardboard, 91 × 73.5 cm, hangs today in the Norwegian National Gallery in Oslo. With this cry, the eyes are round and empty, but with a view, the mouth is inclined to the left, the two people in the background look right on the water.

3. "The scream" , Edvard Munch, 1895, pastel on wood, 79 × 59 cm, is privately owned today. With this scream, the eyes show a clear view, the mouth is slightly inclined to the left, the two people in the background do separate actions, one lets the look wander, one has collapsed above the railing.

This pastel version was probably commissioned in 1895 by Arthur von Franquet, who eagerly gathered and reverented by a braunat of a Braunschweig Zichoric coffee manufacturer. Even then, you could obviously be stinked with a cheap replacement for a coveted food. B. with "milk" cuts instead of a decent stull for the break.

This pastel version was auctioned on May 2, 2012 by Petter Olsen (shipping company Fred. Olsen & Co.) via Sotheby's New York for the interesting sum of $ 119,922,500, the joyless picture thus became the most sixth painting in the world.

However, the buyer Leon Black- Apollo Global Management, investment and investments- seems to be one of the art collectors with a feeling for responsibility for society, and he showed the picture from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from October 24, 2012 to April 29, 2013.

4. "The scream" , Edvard Munch, 1910, tempera on cardboard, 83 × 66 cm, hangs today in the Munch Museum Oslo. With this scream, the eyes are large and empty, the mouth is small and slightly inclined to the left, the two people in the background move away from the screaming.

These are the four known variations of the scream in painting form, only four pictures from Munch's so -called life frieze, a whole series of pictures with the subjects of fear, love and death.

The lithography scream is again from 1895 and quite small (49.4 × 37.3 cm), it hangs in the Gundersen Collection Oslo today. With this cry, the eyes are torn wide open with a clear look, the mouth narrow and straight and wide, and the two people in the background move away from the screaming.

However, there are several lithographs of the scream, one lithography of the pastel version of 1895, e.g. B. in the Stuttgart State Gallery and in the Hamburg Kunsthalle.

The "series" or the "Fries" comprises a total of 22 works in four sections:

• Germination of love: star night, red and white, eye in the eye, dance on the beach, the kiss, Madonna
• Blow and offense of love: ash, vampire, dance of life, jealousy, the woman in three stadiums, melancholy
• Lifestyle: fear, evening on the Karl Johans Gate, red wine, Golgatha, the scream
• Death: on the deathbed, death in the hospital room, odor smell, metabolism, the child and death

The titles already indicate: Edvard Munch is one of the ancestors where you can be happy that they are ancestors and not contemporaries. After the collection of these first facts, Finn has enough, the fellow students decide a one -week break, with a really much party.

Mourning

Christine lost her husband, the man she had learned and loved after a good 40 years of looking for a real partner and with whom she had lived and worked for a good decade. In a small space, with very little separated time, not without conflicts, but without problems.

Since then, she has mourn in a desperate, angry, angry and at the same time lost form of grief, which does not adhere to the four prescribed phases of coping with mourning. Because this grief takes too long, well -meaning friends urge them to start therapy, and cope with mourning sometimes needs help. At some point she gives in to have her calm, well -meaning friends can be very persistent if you think you have discovered the right way.

The first therapist holds a kind of lessons. She teaches Christine the four phases of coping with grief -which it already knows -very detailed and without being interrupted. In phase 1, the very typical first reaction is denied to the shocking message:

That can't be, it is definitely a mistake ”.

We do not want to admit that the inevitable has really occurred. The first shock puts us in a kind of trance. We protect ourselves. And it takes a while until we realize that reality is stronger than denying.

She is not interested in the fact that Christine is not able to deny for a time because she would prefer to consciously and actively and thus actually not differently structured.

Christine is professionally with Barbara Fredrickson, psychologist at the positive emotions and psychophysiology laboratory of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Contact Us .

She has already written some articles about her work on "Discovering the Best in People" (an entire field of experiments and studies on positive emotions and optimistic basic attitudes) before every thought of any mourning work and since - of course.

The therapist is not interested in that either, more than a mocking "Oh, the German psychologist is not enough?" cannot be heard from her. Listening is difficult under such conditions Christine, the true flood of feelings (phase 2), has just as much as acceptance, she only needs some help in reorientation (phase 3), a little support in feeling joy and damping the sometimes exuberant pain.

The second therapist relies on sport and does not want to accept that the mental pain has caused psychosomatic symptoms to Christine, which leads to the fact that her body does not tolerate more than long walks at the moment. In the long run, only right -wing walking can help, Christine can see himself in the film "Run against grief".

In the film, a once legendary marathon runner in old age and in the absence of other ideas in hectic training breaks out, destination Berlin marathon, and as his wife, also dies to run away from his grief. She is not interested in the fact that Christine's competition between individuals between young people, which is useful in youth, but neither physically, nor mentally or socially useful.

She just doesn't joges that Christine does not go in her grief, but has started a lot of new projects. She is the specialist and runs, and she doesn't have other ideas until Christine thankfully waived her care.

The third therapist speaks to her long and interested, she is extremely interested in her work and encourages Christine to do anything. Sometimes it is just about small thoughts, a step in the right direction that Christine might have already thought of.

With support from a person who takes other people seriously, such a thought movement works, and the therapist also has ideas for completely different steps. Christine has been planning to finally paint again for a long time, really concentrated relaxing on the easel, but so far it has stayed with small dyes, normal ring block and wax pencils, black and red doodles also dismantle a lot. When the therapist hears this, Christine makes her a "lack of a munch fear of honor":

She should make the deflected "cry" of Edvard Munch and, at the time to paint this picture, understand how positive thinking gradually turns the brain, new nerve strands, gradually "friendlier rope team", out of grief.

The fact that the human brain can be changed through such exercises has been scientifically proven today, and that the “scream” of Duster threatening to gentle landscape with whatever well -tuned people is certainly an incredibly exciting task.

Christine has already dealt a lot with Munch and replied that she would enjoy giving this poor person more happiness to this poor person, so to speak.

While she follows the therapist's proposal and indulges in a wealth of friendly colors after some pictures, she also reads more about Munch, she is looking for (and finds, a little) the positive:

The first German title that Munch gave to his work himself was "cry of nature" , and even wrote in German on a graphic version: "I felt the big shouting on how nature could be done."

A lot can be made of it, of course nature is a single shouting, but also a diverse and wonderful shouting -Christine begins to plan flower tendrils or pots on the bridge for the next version.

She also finds two really happy Munch pictures: "The Seine at Saint-Cloud" from 1890, today Munch Museum Oslo, and "Spring on the Karl Johans Gate" from 1890, today Bildergalerie Bergen-Well, it is possible!

The presentation

Annika has taken art performance course because she has long understood that she has enough to do with the subtleties of biology (second advanced course) and the NC could require a high-level ABI quotient for her target subject at the time of her abis.

Physics (with technical projects) and chemistry as the third and fourth examination subject run loosely, organic better and better since they no longer posted stupid status reports during waiting times, but rather practices mnemotechnics.

But of all things, the art performance course is just as a real blocker into the picture, with the presentation topic 'Edvard Munch's "cry"-a picture description with background' . When she comes home, she is angry: "I should describe the picture that is probably the most terrible in the world, and the ugliest!" "You wanted to shorten with an art performance course," replies her mother, and turns unmoved.

Annika stands out, she first deals with the picture, image description: In the center, a person with a wide open mouth is shown frontally who put the arms on the head, stares into the area with empty eyes - and screams. And so on and so on, stands on bridge, two figures further back, a few ships, water and heaven in wild shapes and colors ... expression, design means, lines, evaluation: grotesque, visualized inner hell.

Annika also deals with Edvard Munch's life : 12.12.1863 born in Norway and died on January 23, 1944 81 years old. Growing up in Oslo, with a religiously fanatic father, who still married a twenty year younger, who soon died of tuberculosis.

Munch was five and had five siblings, the older sister died of consumption, the younger sister had depression, the only brother who married, died shortly after the wedding, Munch himself was manic-depressive (no wonder in family history) and, to make matters worse, had also inherited the tendency to consumption.

Munch learns at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania Painting, begins his first love relationship in 1885 (at 22 years), in 1886 his first picture of his own "art of memory" , "the sick child" , at the autumn exhibition in Kristiania, became an absolute failure, in 1887 his girlfriend separates from him because of another man. Following death thoughts, hallucinations and melancholy and a number of pictures with the absurd charisma of the "scream". If the lady had just stayed with him!

Annika now deals with the creation of the "scream" and its history: There are many legends for the creation of the scream, which during the years of the four paintings of the four paintings from light-orange to dark red-orange go back to the outbreak of the Krakatau (volcano in Indonesia) in 1883, the screaming motif was an exhibition visited by Munch 1889 Inspired, or through the suicide of the Norwegian painter Kalle Løchen.

Munch is said to have completed the first three versions during his stay in Berlin from 1892 to 1896, but Annika Berlin does not find that terrible, it will hardly be because of that; Nobody knows exactly anyway, Munch probably commented little about his screaming motifs.

At least the screams have been quite popular for a long time, the first theft happened in 1994, on February 12, the temperature version of 1893 disappeared from the Norwegian National Gallery, three months later (unfortunately, according to Annika's view), the police were locked up for several years (instead of commendation).

"Madonna" from Munch, reminiscent of Christiane F. Unfortunately, six of the seven perpetrators in 2006 were caught in Stavanger because of a robbery, screams and broken Madonna were obviously not as good as money as just a few years later on Sotheby's.

But at least one of the criminals could probably make the pictures usable in exchange against punishment, they were secured on August 31, 2006 by the Norwegian police and from September 27, 2006, they were still presented in a rampant state for a few days, surprisingly, 5500 visitors had missed their munch pictures.

When Annika came around and with very, very little pleasure in the work of formulation and complementary thinking, she comes across an entry "Nice, January 22, 1892" , with the prose "cry" :

I went down the street with two friends. The sun went down - the sky became blood red and I felt a touch of melancholy. I stood quietly, dead tired - above the blue -black fjord and the city were blood and fiery tongues. My friends continued - I stayed behind - trembling with fear - I felt the big cry in nature ... I painted this picture - painted the clouds like real blood - the colors shouted. "

Annika laughs and thinks: Does she have the chuzdown to turn the whole presentation and say that only the colors of heaven screamed in beautiful Nice? At first she leaves it open, the preoccupation with the person and pictures of the painter Edvard Munch have initially put her mood quite sustainably.

So she temporarily concludes the preparatory work on the presentation, with the indication that it is easy to understand why the mask of the killer "Ghostface" in the film Scream and the Silences from the television series "Doctor Who" Munch's screaming person were modeled.

And finally a contribution by the Klugschisser for the 150th birthday of the artist:

Lina cream

Passionate author with lively art interest

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