The Scream: A Deeper Analysis of Edvard Munch’s Anxiety-Wrought Piece
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6 min readAug 2, 2019
This article deals with mental health issues and mentions verbal childhood abuse. Please read at your own risk.
I don’t know about you, but I learned a lot about The Scream when I was in elementary school. I don’t mean fundamental facts about the reasons Munch had for painting The Scream, but we did talk about the piece and how it made us feel, and we learned when it was painted and where it is now. When I was a kid, The Scream scared me. The bright orange sky in the background, the terrified, inhuman, ghostly…
