Edvard Munch The Cry

Edvard Munch The Cry. The Scream Edvard Munch Although critics regard the work as representative of the basic mood of modernism, the motif originates from a highly personal experience: Munch, who was mentally ill, processed a panic attack here in 1892 Munch lost his mother to tuberculosis when he was 5 years old (as well as his older sister in 1877) and was raised by his military-physician father who reflected, perhaps too intensely, his own father's.

His painting "The Scream" ("The Cry"; 1893), is one of the most recognizable works in the history of art. Occasionally, the painting also has been called The Cry

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Second only to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch's The Scream may be the most iconic human figure in the history of Western art His prolific oeuvre bears witness to this wide range of feelings. The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design)

The Scream 1893 Edvard Munch Paintings. The Norwegian title, Skrik is cognate with the English "shriek" His painting The Cry (1893) is regarded as an icon of existential anguish

The Scream Edvard Munch. Essentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing. Although critics regard the work as representative of the basic mood of modernism, the motif originates from a highly personal experience: Munch, who was mentally ill, processed a panic attack here in 1892