Skrik

This painting is really famous in the world. It named ‘Skrik’. It was drawn by Edvard Munch in 1893. There are 4 editions of this painting. The painting shows the Volcano eruption. Because the eruption of Volcano, the sky be red. The flowing colors in the painting , the character’s twisted face, the people’s dark clothes and the main character using his hands to cover his face… All of these things make the painting have a strong feeling of fear. So i use this emotion to be the little boy’s emotion of fear.  I think this painting give people a feeling of it is moving, it looks like a short film. The people can feel the fear clearly by this painting.

I search its history and the painter’s background on the Internet. I find this painter likes using some negative emotions and make the emotion be stronger. I think maybe  because Skrik had a not good childhood. His family is not happy. His parents died early when he was a child. He is a representative figure of expressionism. Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.