Scream

When Edvard Munch was asked what had inspired him to do this painting, he replied, “One evening I was walking along a path, the city on one side of me and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out across the fjord. The sun was setting, the clouds were turning blood red.

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It seemed to me that I could hear The Scream. I painted this picture; painted the clouds as real blood. Maybe he needs help, and his friends weren’t there for him. What we see here, is a glimpse of what Munch was really like inside. Behind him a couple are walking together in the opposite direction. The man screaming in the picture seems to feel like he’s going insane, and that the world is getting to be too much for him. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. When we really look at the painting, we understand what the artist was feeling at the time, because it captures nothing but human emotion.

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Approximate Word count = 627
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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