Edvard Munch The Scream Pastels My Version Drawing by Darkvine

Edvard Munch, The Scream 1893 and 1895 Pastels My Version
My version in pastels is some sort of hybrid based on both, as you can see on the work in progress pictures.
Just as musicians make cover songs, for visual artists there is a lot to learn from copying the work of inspiring artists.
Munch actually made 4 versions, the right one on my screen is also in pastels.
Munch's early work shows extreme anxieties and despair, after a breakdown he was institutionalized in a mental health clinic, just like Vincent van Gogh, but unlike van Gogh he seems to have recovered quite well and most of his later work didn't show the same pessimism, melancholy and anxieties.
The Scream is Munch's most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man. Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, it reduces the agonized figure to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis.
With this painting, Munch met his stated goal of "the study of the soul, that is to say the study of my own self". Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature." He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."

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Art HistoryAnxietyFearDespairMelancholy