"The Scream" a painting by the Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch, was auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, in May 2012 at a price of $ 119.9 million US. The story of a frightened scream with background horizon blood red and dark blue-black plains in the Edvard Munch painting called "The Scream", 1893, National Gallery, Oslo.
Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863 - died January 23, 1944 was a Norwegian expressionist painter flow. The picture of the misery or suffering greatly affect the development of German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
As with many other works, Munch also painted several versions for the painting titled The Scream. One was stolen in 1994 and another in 2004 that was stolen two paintings is eventually recovered.
The Scream (1893) originally called Despair, Munch's most famous painting, regarded as the iconic depiction of suffering and is one part of a series called The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored themes of life, love, fear, death, and grief. Munch was allegedly severely depressed while working on this painting as he wrote in his diary about the background of The Scream.
"I was walking along the road with two friends. Sun was setting the. I felt a breath of Melancholy - Suddenly the sky turned blood-red. I stopped, and leaned against the railing, Deathly tired - Looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on - I stood there, Trembling with fear. and I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature. "(Munch, 1892).
His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 5 years old, then he lost his sister at the age of 14 years. When he was 25, his father died. Not long after that, the only sister, Laura, was very depressed and entered a mental hospital. For Munch, his life surrounded by the signs of death. Such a background may be one reason why Munch saw art as a personal experience. Art becomes a medium to explain about life and its meaning for himself. And perhaps it is also the background which makes choosing the expressionist style of painting.
Source: id.wikipedia.org. Ev. Maya Sianturi, bulettinpilar.com
