Interpretation – Describe how the work makes you think or feel:

 How does it make you feel? Why?

 What was the artist's intended message? What message do you get from the work?

 Describe the expressive qualities you find in the work.

 What expressive language would you use to describe the qualities (i.e., tragic, ugly, funny, etc.)?

 Does the work remind you of other things (i.e., metaphor or analogy)?

 How does the work relate to other ideas or events in the world…past and present?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edvard Munch's The Scream is a great painting to attempt to interpret. Munch was a Norwegian expressionist artist. There are several interpretations as to what is happening in this scene, some say that Munch was influence d by his manic depressive sister who was interned in a mental hospital while he was painting this. Others say that the eruption of Krakatoa in 1993 caused intense sunsets through Europe and they feel that Munch was trying to capture it in his pictures. Yet others state that Munch was influenced by a Peruvian mummy which he was at an Exposition in Paris.

 

 

 

 

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