The Scream

Edvard Munch

• 1893A specific year
• OsloNorway's chief city
• National GalleryGovernment-run art institution

tempera · cardboard · pastel · art theft · Sotheby's · auction · MoMA · masterpiece · iconic · cultural heritage

anguish

Intense mental suffering

• existential dreadTerror at meaningless being
• anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
• despairTotal absence of hope

torment · agony · alienation · terror · horror · distress · suffering · isolation · overwhelm · panic

figure

Outline or numeral

• bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
• fjordGlacially carved coastal inlet
• blood-redDeep vivid crimson

orange · open mouth · pier · railing · silhouettes · sunset · vibrant colors · skeletal · androgynous · elongated

avant-garde

Innovative cultural pioneers

• distortionTwisting from original state
• subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
• modernismFavoring contemporary approaches

Kandinsky · abstraction · psychological · existentialism · alienation · grotesque · emotional intensity · inner vision · bold color · angst

parody

Satirical imitation

• emojiDigital pictograph for messaging
• memeShared online humor
• inflatableExpandable by air

Home Alone · pop culture · merchandise · reproduction · recognition · appropriation · Andy Warhol · mass media · Halloween mask · emoticon

• Famous PaintingsMona Lisa, Starry Night, The Birth of Venus, Guernica, American Gothic
• ExpressionismEdvard Munch, Der Blaue Reiter, German Expressionism, woodcuts, Kandinsky
• Nordic ArtScandinavian design, Munch, Viking ships, runestones, wood carving
• artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
• NorwayOslo, Bergen, Trondheim, fjord, fjords
• MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, David, The Thinker