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Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's "The Scream" In 1890, he began to create the most important series of works in his life, the "Life Series". This set of paintings has a wide range of themes, with the basic theme of eulogizing "life, love and death". It uses symbols and metaphors to reveal the worries and fears of mankind at the "end of the century". The oil painting "The Scream" painted by Munch in 1893 is the strongest and most stimulating painting in this series, and it is also one of his important representative works. In this painting, Munch used extremely exaggerated brushwork to depict a deformed and screaming figure, vividly expressing the extreme loneliness and depression of human beings, as well as the fear in front of the infinite universe. . Munch himself once described the origin of this painting:

“One evening I was walking along a path with the city on one side and the fjord below me on the other. I was tired and sick. , stopped and looked towards the other side of the fjord - the sun was setting - the clouds were dyed red, like blood.

"I felt a piercing scream passing through the sky and the earth; I seemed to be. This scream can be heard. I drew this picture - I drew those clouds that looked like real blood. ——Those colors are screaming—this is the "Scream" in the "Life Group Painting". "("Edward Munch" by Thomas M. Messer, Harry N. Abrams, INC, Publishers, New York, page 84. Translated by the author.)

In this painting, there are no specific objects. The image in the center of the picture is eerie, suggesting the terror that caused this scream. He seems to be walking past us, turning to the railing that stretches into the distance. He covers his ears and can barely hear the two people walking away. The footsteps of pedestrians could not be heard, and the two boats and church steeples in the distance could not be seen; otherwise, the entire loneliness that tightly wrapped around him might be slightly reduced. This lonely person who is completely isolated from reality seems to have been. Completely overcome by his own deepest fear, the image is highly exaggerated, the deformed and distorted screaming face, with its wide eyes and sunken cheeks, reminiscent of a human being. The skeleton is associated with death. It is simply a screaming ghost. "It could only have been painted by a madman," Munch wrote on the painting's sketch. In the painting, the colors used by Munch maintain a certain degree of connection with nature. Although the blue water, brown ground, green trees and red sky are all exaggerated to express their expressiveness, they do not lose their general color. The color of the whole painting is melancholy: the thick blood red is suspended above the horizon, giving people an ominous foreboding. It conflicts with the purple in the darkness of the sea; this purple becomes more and more gloomy as it stretches into the distance. . The same purple is repeated on the lonely man's clothes, while his hands and head remain in pale, pale brown.

There is no place in the painting that is not full of turmoil. The twisting curves of the sky and water are in sharp contrast with the strong and straight diagonal form of the bridge. The entire composition is full of rough and strong rhythm in the rotating movement. Sound. It can be said that the painter uses visual symbols to convey auditory feelings, turning the miserable scream into visible vibrations. This method of visualizing sound waves may be similar to Van Gogh's masterpiece "Starry Night". The medium is connected with the pictorial expression of energy. Here, Munch transforms the extreme inner anxiety caused by the scream into a convincing abstract image. Pushed to the extreme

However, at 6:29 a.m. on February 12, 1994, "The Scream" was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway. Ironically, the thief only used one at the construction site next door. Ladders, climbing walls, breaking glass to break into the art museum, and not forgetting to leave a postcard "Thank you for this poor security system" before leaving.