Book quoted in the video: "A veil of silence" by Federico Zeri: amzn.to/2OyxAjT
Recommended book: "Munch" by Ulrich Bischoff: amzn.to/3qKT4XZ
The cry or the scream is one of the most famous paintings in the history of painting, one of those iconic works that we all know and that have entered the small number of paintings that belong to the collective imagination among which we can understand Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Vermeer's Girl with a Turban and very few others.
But precisely because Munch's cry is so famous it risks being approached superficially, being taken for granted as happens for what is so familiar to us as to become pure background, a part of the things that are part of the furniture that surrounds us and to which we don't care anymore.
The cry is once again, as we have seen in other videos, not a single work but a series that includes works in mixed media, pastel, lithographs and drawings and which were made between 1893 and 1910. There are about fifty versions.
The painting on which I will focus the most is that of 1893, the one that probably reached the maximum expressive intensity, the one that screams loudest until it enters the ears and fibers of the visitors who had the privilege of observing it at the National Gallery in Oslo. where it is stored.
This is an important aspect. As much as a work can be studied in depth in books, as much as it can be appreciated through a reproduction in high definition, whether it is through a paper print or a digital file, viewing from life retains a fundamental meaning. This applies both to the technical analysis of the pictorial stroke, of the drafting of colors, of the features of the drawing that we can investigate in depth, and to a more intangible and difficult to describe question, linked to the charisma, to the energy that a work emanates. live.
As the painter himself testified, during a walk at sunset, while he was on a hill road not far from the city of Oslo, the artist had the sensation of hearing "the scream of nature" and he seemed to see the clouds turn blood red.
These are the exact words that Munch wrote about this terrifying experience lived and then transported into the painting:
“I was walking along the street with two friends when the sun went down, the sky suddenly turned blood red. I felt a whiff of melancholy. An exhausting pain under my heart.
I stopped, leaned dead tired against a fence. On the blue-black fjord and the city were blood and tongues of fire. My friends kept walking and I was still trembling with fear ... And I felt that a great endless scream pervaded nature. "
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13 мар 2021