How To Draw The Scream By Edvard Munch | Artrageous with Nate

Every great painting has an incredible story behind it, and The Scream is no exception!

Join us as we uncover the interesting, yet pretty creepy story behind Munch and his painting, and then learn how to draw a Scream inspired oil pastel picture!

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[JenniferMusic]

I love your videos! I love that they are art mixed with a history lesson :) They're amazing!

[sueclark]

excellent tutorial! I throughly enjoyed this. great art kids. ♡♡♡

[ArtEdWithJulieM]

The colors of the sky he saw were also being affected by the massive amounts of ash in the atmosphere from the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia which affected weather patterns globally for five years after the eruption.

[Bighand]

E.Munch lived in my house 1896-1898 when he wasn't out traveling(Paris/Berlin).

[saltysteven]

He sounds so excited when he says that someone died.

[johnhayes]

Nate, Again you are rather making a generalization of things in your program without good research. Nature was not 'screaming to him' specifically and the title was not The Scream of/in Nature it was the Geschrei. Get things right me boyo. and no van Gogh did not cut his ear off nor did he commit suicide. JHN

It started with The Voice showing the call of love on the
shores of Åasgardstrand. Next the awakening of physical love in The Kiss,
the pain of love in Vampire and the mystery of sex in Madonna,
after which Jealousy leads finally to despair, The Scream.

All year he had been striving towards the final painting,
developing the composition. In September, Norway called him home to paint. He
wrote how the visionary experience of The Scream came to him:



I went along the road with two friends—

The sun set

Suddenly the sky became blood—and I felt the breath of sadness

A tearing pain beneath my heart

I stopped—leaned against the fence—deathly tired

Clouds over the fjord of blood dripped reeking with blood

My friends went on but I just stood trembling with an open wound

in my breast trembling with anxiety I heard a huge extraordinary

scream pass through nature.



The experience came to him high up on Ekeberg at sunset. Ekeberg is to the east
of Oslo. It is the only point from which one can look across and see the city
Munch now hated, spread across the water, as Christ saw the city spread before
Him from a high place, when the Devil tempted Him. What looks like a road in
the painting was in fact a path, and the railing is a safety railing, though it
looks like a bridge. It does not look very different today, if one blanks out
the industry round the docks the same silhouette of Oslo can be seen bulging
out.

The main slaughterhouse for the city was up there, and so was
Gaustad, the city’s madhouse, in which Laura had been incarcerated. He had
probably gone up there to visit her; there was no other discernible reason. The
screams of the animals being slaughtered in combination with the screams of the
insane were reported to be a terrible thing to hear.

If every self-portrait is a portrait of the soul to some degree, The
Scream  was the
portrait of the soul stripped as far from the visible as possible—the image on
the reverse, the hidden side of the eyeball as Munch looked into himself. ‘We
paint souls’. It has come to be seen as a painting of the dilemma of modern
man, a visualization of Nietzsche’s cry, ‘God is dead, and we have nothing to
replace him.’ Another interpretation is that The Scream is the
fundamental starting point for the creative artist. It is the panic-chaos that
is the source and necessity of all creative inspiration. Strindberg’s
interpretation was, ‘A scream of fear just as nature, turning red from wrath,
prepares to speak before the storm and thunder, to the bewildered little
creatures who, without resembling them in the least, imagine themselves to be
gods.’

[GroovingPict]

Pronounced Munk, with a hard ending... not like a pothead having the munchies.

[jrenae]

You missed the aspect of the volcanic ash in the air resulting from half a world away when Krakotoa went kabloosh. That influenced the sky's unusual color.

[teentalex]

It's not munch, it's pronounced (moonk)

[AlGuitar]

It would be nice, if they let us see the drawing.

[AnnaZombi]

u need to get yourself some workshop paper to work over- its abeautiful thing - will save u megga $s in cleanup. :)

[johnyoung]

i thought we was not meant to talk about to talk about the blood

[nerdherotv]

shit I just painted this now I feel weird when I look at it....😵😂😵

[Renactuszoo]

Hello! I liked your video this masterpiece !!
I even made my version of the work, please see:


I wish for you much success !!

[johnhayes]

Nate ! come on man? Munch ; really ? His name is pronounced Moonk ; Geesh     JHN

[TheaMidnight]

Fun video. BUT you mispronounced his name! Yikes! Moooongk is the accurate pronunciation!

[ajax]

Yeah - clicked out in three seconds; the guy doesn't even know how to say the painter's name!