The Scream painting And My Scream painting

 Have you ever wondered what inspired the logos on posters or movie characters with their hands on their cheeks screaming or just in mid scream? 

 (this is a photo from home alone)

 

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Well -  you’ve come to the right place because today we are going to talk about the Scream painting by Edward Munch.

Edward Munch was inspired to draw this painting when he was out walking and suddenly the sky turned blood red. Munch felt a scream rip through nature which was the basis for his painting. The actual painting shows a bridge with a figure in the foreground who is screaming. The sky is blood red with land, a cliff and a fjord. (a fjord is a body of water surrounded by cliffs.)

There are 4 versions of the Scream painting - one in pastel , the second in oil, tempera, and pastel, the third made out of lithograph print and the fourth one is made out of tempera paint (this version was stolen in 2004 but recovered in 2006.) 

   

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I have drawn my own version of the Scream painting for an art project in school. You can see my drawing below, it represents everything that I am scared of or don't like.

 

I drew the coronavirus since it got here, nobody can do anything in person or they might catch the virus and fall sick. Because of that I am getting really frustrated , staying at home all the time is not something I enjoy. I drew a ground and a fjord that were polluted from the factory. I drew this because pollution keeps making earth a grey place (which means not green, not beautiful, and a hard place to live in.) I included boulders going down the cliff because they could squash all the houses leaving lots of people homeless, I included ghosts because most kids are scared of them and so am I. I also drew a wrecking ball because whenever I see a wrecking ball I am afraid that the ball will fall off the string and roll everywhere destroying everything.

 I hope what you have read here inspires you to be creative and make your own version of the scream painting!