Madness and Art

Edvard Munch's The Scream

here is The Scream

In fact, The Scream was inspired by an experience that has all the earmarks of the sublime (as scripted by Bergman). "I was walking along the road with two friends," wrote Munch, on the back of a drawing. "The sun set. The sky became a bloody red. And I felt a touch of melancholy. I stood still, leaned on the rialing, dead tired. Over the blue-black fjord and city hung blood and tongues of fire. My friends walked on and I stayed behind, trembling with fright. And I felt a great undending scream passing thorugh n ature."

about Edvard Munch's The Scream

http://www.jazzsite.co.uk/JUK/JUK42/JUK42_15.pdf some jazz guy, Iain Bellamy, says:
Art in its most articulate moments aims toward the subline adn the inaccessible, twoards those untouced regions of consciousness. Much's 'Scream' and Picasso's 'Guernica' reveal real devastation, something that coannot be conveyed by any tehcnological medium - neither a flood of CNN images, nor by any other form of real-time communication. Both Munch and Picaso give new significance to the meaning of anxieyt.

Jan Sanders von Hemessen 1530 "Stone of Folly"

Picasso's "Guernica"

People talk about it, I'm not sure why. It's in response to the brutality of Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

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