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Plot

People stand on the bridge under the crimson sky. The landscape is guessed by the appearance of Fjord from the Eger Hill in Oslo (which was called Christianity during the mulca).

The essence of the central image remains a mystery. The artist did not strive for drawing these figures. Munk writes sound itself, condition. Look at how the lines are agreed with which the landscape and screaming are written. They are like in resonance. A person hears a cry of nature and reacts to him, and nature cannot but respond to a person. In fact, this is the idea of \u200b\u200buniversal unity.

In nature, you will not find any perfect straight line. And Munk writes the surrounding exactly in the form in which it was created. "I do not draw what I see, but what I saw," he said.

There are 40 copies of the "Creek" Mink

The artist himself wrote on the basis of the "scream", the artist himself wrote in his diary: "I walked along a path with two friends - the sun sacked - unexpectedly he became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaned about the fence - I watched On the blood and the languages \u200b\u200bof the flame over the bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, and I stood, trembling from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. "

What did the terrain shown pictured

The image that was born from a mug was the synthesis of what he felt at the time, those sentiments that Vitali in Norway, children's fears, endless depression and loneliness.

It is possible that the grinding color of the sky is not exaggerated. Munch really could see such a color. In 1883, the most powerful eruption of the volcano occurred in Krakataau. A huge number of ashes were thrown into the atmosphere, because of which for several years around the world, especially colorful, fiery sunsets were observed.

It is possible that the cry, which heard Munk, is not a certain idea or hallucination. Next to Eger, the largest slaughterhouse of Oslo and a psychiatric clinic were located. The cries of the scored animals along with the screams of the mentally ill were unbearable.

Context

Total "screams" exists about forty. Four of them are picturesque paintings (they appeared between 1893 and 1910), the rest of the work - graphic (including printed graphics and drawings). The picture was conceived as part of "Fries" - a series of love, life and death.

"Creek" - part of the cycle of pictures of love, life and death

For the first time, Creek was represented by the public at the Berlin exhibition in December 1893. Of course, no one understood anything, the criticism fell on a mug, and even the police had to be invited to the gallery so that the angry people did not suit the pogrom.

Fregment of Frieza

The audience wondered how such a nice young man could write such terrible paintings. However, it was this work that became software for expressionism. She brought piercing loneliness and despair to art. We knowing that the world is waiting in the 20th century, the willy-noilies want to call the muddy man.

Fate artist

The Mukka family was extremely religious. His mother died from tuberculosis when Edward was 5 years old. Later, the older sister Sophie died from the same disease. He himself munk miraculously escaped the same fate.

The Royal School of Design of Christiania Edward did not finish - he was not agreed with the principles of Academism and Naturalism, to change which was impossible. Munch began independent search for means of expressing his ideas. The first scandal did not make himself wait. Critics literally ridiculed the painting "Sick Girl", on which the artist wrote a dying Sophie. The canvas were called miscarriage, lowest. However, Munk and did not try to convey the situation in which his sister died, it was more important for him to transfer his impressions, pain and loss to canvas.

"Madonna" (1894-1895). This picture is called the embodiment of the art of the Mink

In the second half of the 1880s, the artist became a regulatory of the congregations of "Bohemian Christia" - the Commonwealth of philosophers, writers, musicians, artists who existed to the death of his main inspiration manager - Anarchist writer Hans Eger. Under the ringing of the glasses, they discussed politics, social problems, the moral crisis of society, the ideas about sexual behavior and taboo.

Mulk paintings were called miscarriage and degenerative art

In the early 1890s, Munk spent a lot of time in France, where, of course, saw the work of Van Gogh and Gaugugen. And that is the influence that they had, noticeably, including, in the "scream": bright colors (whom Musk had not previously had), images of flowing lines, clearer drawing.

In the workshop Mukka, 1902

In the future, the artist's style is becoming more sharp, sweeping, the subject, the mood is changing, the observer, which was in early works. Gradually, the mukka's art began to get used to the art, the criticism was no longer so categorical, the artist also had secured patrons.

For the past 15 years, the artist almost did not work - because of hemorrhage in the vitreous body of the right eye, he began with vision problems. And when in 1940 Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany, Munk again fell alarming, this time for life and property that the Nazis could confiscate. He died in 1944.

Series of Pictures of the Norwegian Artist-Expressionist Edward Mukanka created between 1893 and 1910 and summarized by it called "Creek" - can be attributed to the category of cultural phenomena. The image of the creature screaming from horror, written in the nineteenth century, is considered the fundamental work of expressionism. But at the end of the XX century, he suddenly acquires the status of a pop culture symbol. By the number of remakes, memes and parodii, the image of the mug has become the most frequently reproducible in the world. And when the image of artistic culture is included in the mass consciousness - you can talk about an important cultural phenomenon.

The plot of the Mc painting was founded on his own feelings described in his diary in 1892.

"I walked along the path with two friends - the sun sacked - unexpectedly the sky became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaving about the fence - I looked at blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, And I stood, trembling with excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature "

The visualization of this note can serve as an advertising video of the Sotheby's auction (Sotheby's), on which the work of a munka from the Creek series, performed by pastel, was sold for record 119 million dollars.

The picture shows exactly the place where it covered a terrible feeling. The landscape behind the figure is not at all fictional. This is the launched area of \u200b\u200bEkheberg, in the vicinity of Oslo, where suicide often happened. Nearby was a psychiatric hospital, which was hospitalized a favorite munka sister, with a diagnosis of manico-depressive psychosis. To top off, at the base of the rock stood a slaughter, where the piercing cries of animals came from.
The recognizable details are the fjord, boats, the old church are in a certain apocalyptic landscape, transmitting the oppression of the world, and bloody sunset becomes a concentration of the nightmare.
Emotionally paintings of the series "Creek" echoes graphic etchings "Kaprichos" , created in 1797-1798 by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. And just like Goya, depicting his chimeric visions to get rid of them, - Munk, absorbed by the idea behind the picture, reproduced his vision frightened his vision. The artist has changed the structure, technique and color of copies, while maintaining a deep existential essence.

Munka was only 29 years old when he wrote a picture of "Creek", but the creative innovation of the artist shocked contemporaries. On the one hand, most of his colleagues, including Toulouse Lesrere, were outraged by the "barbaric" technique of mug and did not perceive the aggressive aesthetics of his work. (After all, the end of the 19th century was devoted to the cult of physical beauty, meaning, above all, is calm, a sense of satisfaction, as on the face of Mona Lisa). On the other hand, art historians stunned the author's conceptual approach. His idea was paradoxical: by definition, the picture is silent. But the artist must make her shout.

Of course, screaming people were depicted to him, but Munk depicted the screaming itself. It was an innovation in painting. Nobody depicted to him sound, especially the sound, emotionally painted. The wave-like landscape lines, as if echo, repeat the rounded outlines of the head and widely opened mouth - as if the sound of the scream was given everywhere. An intricate, unreal bends of the lines in the image of the central figure and nature (resembling a semoretable Wangogovsky style) fill the composition with energy and drama.

In 1895, Muna created a lithograph - a simplified black and white version of his picture, which was opened by Pandora's drawer: the path to its mass reposition with typographical technologies. The first to those interested, developing the subject of mass production of art. One of the founders of this direction and the Creator - created a series of silk-call prints based on the works of mulk. But it was only the beginning.

It turned out that Creek is ideal for the culture of the post-industrial era , prone to the epidemic of postmodernism, where everything is built on quotations from the past and subjected to secondary processing. The picture of Minka became a pop "icon", the image of which began to massively spread in the information space like viral advertising.

All recognizable plots of paintings are widely exploited by the creators of advertising, animated series and different shows. In addition, the image turned out to be an endless source for creating ironic Internet - memes, emoticons and comics. Psychologists explain this by the fact that a modern man is trying to hide the fright from the awareness of his fragility and insecurity, the fright, which he feels looking at the apocalyptic picture of the world through the eyes of Edward Mukka.

The image created by the Norwegian artist is often portrayed in a kitcheva (ironic) manner, as if the 20th century is trying to remove the pristine anxiety atmosphere of the picture, like composure of the kitchen odors.

But not only web.— web, and almost all areas of art fell under the influence of the creativity of the mun. The impersonation of horror briefly shown to them, was repeatedly used in music, literature and cinema. Remember at least a murderer's mask from the horror movie "Creek" or the appearance of representatives of the Alien race from the cult series "Doctor Who". They were inspired by the character of the picture of a mun. Even familiar to the audience, the expression of the person of the young Macaese Calkin, screaming in front of the mirror in the Christmas comedy of Chris Columbus "one at home", is also a parody allyusy to work Edward Mukka.

It should be added that this work inspired many filmmakers and scripts to create films of different sense. But, none of the movies never approached the level of tragedy and emotionality to the masterpiece of Edward Mukka.

Over time, the plot of the paintings began to appear on almost everything: on clothes, shoes, dishes, jewelry and others, sometimes unthinkable things, like the inflatable dolls of Robert Fishboan, managed to create a profitable production of these dolls, each of which repeated the image of the central figure of the Mink composition.

Naturally, such a massive product of consumption as a meal also did not remain aside. As part of the anniversary project " MUNCH-150 " The Freya Norwegian Factory has released a series of milk chocolate tiles with the image of a munka picture from the Fris Frey series. After all, the name of the author is directly related to the history of this factory. 18 of his paintings decorated the walls of the factory dining room in January 1923. Founder of the factory, Johan Thron Holstered was extremely satisfied with the result. However, I didn't quite like the working picture ourselves: the expressionist Munk drew in the pictures of people devoid of damn face, and the depicted houses were drawn without doors and pipes.

The modern version of this format has become "Cafe Munk", which opened in the same year in Tokyo, organized by the Scandinavian tourism department. The cafe presents 37 copies of the pictures of the famous artist, and the exclusive menu includes delicious cakes and coffee with a familiar way.

Cafe Munk (Tokyo)

We can say that art and food - two global areas of human life - masterfully learned to combine Food Art . The image created by Munka over a hundred years ago and received the world "publication", it is impossible to be more successfully combined with its ideas and scales. In articles blog " Artotek food"We already represented some of these objects. For example, in an article about or American. We want to give some more examples of creative rethinking and paroding of the Creek pattern related to food.

The original works of the Japanese illustrator Takayo Ries have become an Internet sensation: from algae Nori, boiled rice and other traditional Japanese ingredients, it creates reproductions of iconic works of art. The character of the scream appeared on the slice of sushi rolls, and next, and in.

Pizzerias and vegan cafes began to apply it to decorate their dishes

The famous picture of Edward Minka "Creek" Today first appeared before the eyes of Londoners. For a long time, the picture of the Norwegian expressionist was in a private collection of County Edward Minka of the entrepreneur Petter Olsen, the father of which was an artist with another, neighbor and the customer. Interestingly, using a different art technique, Munk wrote Four optionspictures called "Creek".

A distinctive feature of the painting "Creek", which is presented in London, is the original frame in which the work is placed. Rama is painted by Edward Munk himself, which confirms the author's inscription, explaining the plot of the paintings: "My friends went on, I stayed behind, trembled from anxiety, I felt a great cry of nature." In Oslo in the "Museum of Edward Minka" there are two more options "Cream" - one of them is made pastel, and the other - butter. The fourth version of the picture is located in the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. Creek, belonging to Olsen - the first picture in a row, was written in pastel, and differs from three other paintings unusually bright color palette. The picture of Edward Minka "Creek" embodies the isolation of a person, desperate loneliness, the loss of the meaning of life. The stress of the scene gives the dramatic contrast between the lonely figure in the foreground and other people in the distance, which are engaged in themselves.

If you want to have Qualitative Reproduction of Edward Minky Picturesin my collection, then order the reproduction of the painting "Creek" on canvas. The unique printing technology of reproductions on the canvas transmits original colors, thanks to the use of European quality paints with protection against fading. Canvas, as the basis for the reproduction of the picture of the Mulk "Creek", will give the natural structure of the artistic canvas, and your reproduction will look like a real work of art. All reproductions are drawn up for a special gallery subframe, which finally gives reproduction similarity with the original work of art. Order the reproduction of Edward Mink Mink's painting on canvas, and we guarantee you the best color gear, cotton canvas and wood subframe that use professional art galleries.

Why shout? Yes, even with a peasive face, granting the head, clamping the ears? From horror, from hopelessness, from despair. This is Munk and wanted to convey in his picture. A distorted figure on it is the embodiment of suffering. He inspired him to this picture of the sunset sun, painting the sky in bloody colors. Red, the fiery sky above the black city gave rise to a feeling of a cry who is piercing everything around.

It would be necessary to add that he was repeatedly shouting in his work (there are other options for "scream"). But the cry of nature actually was a reflection of his own inner cry. It ended in all the treatment in the clinic (there is evidence that Munch suffered with manic-depressive psychosis).

But as for the bloody sky, it did not harm him here, there is no metaphor in these words. According to astronomers in 1883, there was an eruption of the Volcano Krakataau. Within a few months, the volcano threw huge clouds of dust, which was the cause of "bloody" sunstairs in Europe.

And there is still a completely fantastic version of this picture. Her supporters believe that the munka had the opportunity to enter into contact with extraterrestrial mind (apparently, the figure in the picture someone recalled alien). Here, he portrayed his impressions from this contact.

150 years ago, Edward Munch was born near Oslo - the Norwegian painter, whose work covered by alienation and horror the creativity could leave indifferent. The paintings of the mock cause emotions even in people who know little about the biography of the artist and circumstances, due to which his canvas are almost always painted in dark colors. But in addition to the unchanged motifs of loneliness and death in his paintings, the desire to live in his paintings.

"Sick Girl" (1885-1886)

"Sick Girl" is an early picture of a munka, and one of the first, represented by the artist at the autumn art exhibition of 1886. The picture shows the red-haired girl of the painful species, lying in bed, and over her hand, leaning, holding a woman in a black dress. In the room reigns half the day, and the only bright spot is the face of a dying girl, which is as if illuminated. Although posed for the painting 11-year-old Betsey Nielsen, the artist's memories were based on the canvas, associated with the beloved senior sister Sophie. When the future painter was 14 years old, his 15-year-old sister died from tuberculosis, and it happened 9 years after the mother of the Laura Munk family died from the same disease. Heavy childhood, overshadowed by the death of two close people and excessive piousness and the severity of the priest's father, gave itself to know throughout the life of the mug and influenced his worldview and creativity.

"My father was a very quick-tempered and obsessed with religion - I inherited the sprouts of madness. The spirits of fear, grief and death surround me from the moment of birth," remembered Munch about his childhood.

A woman depicted in the picture next to the girl is an aunt of the artist Karen Bielierstad, who cared for her sister's children after her death. A few weeks, during which Sophie Munch died from Chakhotka, became one of the worst periods in the life of a mug - in particular, even then he first thought about the meaning of religion, which after led to rejection from her. According to the memories of the artist, in the ill-fated night, his father, who, with all the troubles, turned to God, "walked back and forth on the room, prayerfully folded his hands," and the daughter could not help anything.

In the future, Munk has repeatedly returned to that tragic night - for forty years he wrote six paintings depicting his dying sister Sophie.

The canvas of the young artist, although it was put on the exhibition along with paintings of more experienced painters, received crushing reviews of critics. Thus, the "sick girl" called the parody of art and reproached the young munya in the fact that he dared to submit an unfinished, according to experts, a picture. "The best service that Edward Munka can be provided is silently passing by his paintings by his paintings," he wrote one of the journalists who added that the general level of the exhibition was lowered.

Criticism did not change the opinion of the artist himself, for whom the "sick girl" remained one of the main pictures until the end of life. Currently, the canvas can be seen in the National Oslo Gallery.

"Creek" (1893)

In the work of many artists, it is difficult to distinguish the only most significant and famous picture, but in the case of Munka there is no doubt - even people who do not eat weaknesses for art know. Like many other canvas, Munk recreated a "cry" for several years, writing the first version of the picture in 1893, and the last one in the 1910th. In addition, during these years the artist worked on paintings similar in mood, for example, over the "alarm" (1894), depicting people on the same bridge over Oslo Fjord, and "in the evening on Karl John" (1892). According to some art historians, thus the artist tried to get rid of the "scream" and was able to do it only after the course of treatment in the clinic.

The relationship of mulk with his picture, like her interpretations - the favorite theme of critics and experts. Someone believes that a person reacts in horror responds to the infant 'crop of nature "(the initial name of the painting is ed.). Others believe that Munk foresaw all the catastrophes and shocks, which are waiting for humanity in the 20th century, and portrayed horror before the future and at the same time the impossibility of overcoming it. Be that as it may, an emotionally charged picture has become one of the first works of expressionism and for many it remained its emblem, and the themes of despair and loneliness reflected in it were the main in the art of modernism.

The artist himself wrote in his diary. In the post called "Nice 01/22/1892" said: "I walked along the path with two friends - the sun was sake - unexpectedly the sky was bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaned about the fence - I looked at blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover A bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, and I stood, trembled from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. "

"Creek" Minka influenced not only on artists of the twentieth century, but also quoted in pop culture: the most obvious allusion on the picture is famous.

"Madonna" (1894)

The picture of the munka, which is known today called "Madonna", was originally called the "loving woman." In 1893, for her, the artist posed Dagney Yulia, the wife of the writer and a friend of Mukka Stanislav Psybyshevsky and Musa Artists-Contemporaries: In addition to Mukanka Yul-Pshibyshevskaya wrote Wojca Wece, Konrad Krzhizhanovsky, Julia Wolftorne.

According to the mock, the canvas should reflect the main cycles of the woman's life: the conception of the child, the work of the offspring and death. It is believed that the first stage was due to the Pose Madonna, the second Munk reflected in lithographs made in 1895 - in the lower left corner the figure in the embryo position is depicted. The fact that the artist associated the picture with death, they say his own comments on it and the fact that love in the imaginary representation has always been inextricably linked with death. In addition, agreeing with Schopenhawer, Munch believed that the function of the woman was completed after the child's birth.

The only thing that unites the naked black-haired Madonna Mudon with the classical Madonna - Nimbe above his head. As in the rest of his paintings, here Munk did not use straight lines - a woman surrounds soft "wavy" rays. In total, the artist created five options for the web, which today is stored in the Museum Museum, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, in Kunsthalle in Hamburg and private collections.

"Parting" (1896)

Almost in all its paintings, written throughout the 1890s, Munk used the same images, in different ways to combine them: a strip of light on the sea surface, a blonde girl on the shore, an elderly woman in black, suffering a man. At similar paintings, Munk usually portrayed the main character in the foreground and something resembling him about the past, behind.

In "parting", the main character is an abandoned man who does not allow memories to break with the past. Munch shows it with the help of long hair girls who develop and concern the head of the man. The girl's image is gentle and as if not fully prescribed - symbolizes the bright past, and the figure of a man, whose silhouette and features are depicted more carefully, belongs to the gloomy real.

Munk perceived life as a constant and consistent parting with everything that is expensive to man, along the way to final parting with his life itself. The silhouette of a girl on the canvas partially merges with the scenery - so the main character will be easier to survive the loss, it will only be part of everything, with which he will inevitably break up during his life.

"Girls on the bridge" (1899)

"Girls on the bridge" - one of the few paintings of the Mink, who received fame after the creation - recognition came to the munct and most of his creations only in the last decade of the artist's life. Perhaps it happened, because it is one of the few mockful mugs impregnated with peace and tranquility, where the figures of girls and nature are depicted in cheerful paints. And, although women in the pictures of Mukanka, as in the works of the genrine of Hebsen and Yuhans of August, we always symbolize the fragility of life and a thin line between life and death, in the "Girls on the Bridge" was reflected rare for the artist's state of mental joy.

Munch wrote as many as seven versions of the picture, the first of which dated 1899 and today is stored in the National Oslo Gallery. Another version written in 1903 can be seen in the GMIA. A.S. Pushkin. A collector Ivan Morozov was brought to Russia the picture, which bought a canvas at the Independent Paris Salon.

If you want to have Qualitative Reproduction of Edward Minky Picturesin my collection, then order Creek on canvas. The unique printing technology of reproductions on the canvas transmits original colors, thanks to the use of European quality paints with protection against fading. Canvas, as the basis for the reproduction of the picture of the Mulk "Creek", will give the natural structure of the artistic canvas, and your reproduction will look like a real work of art. All reproductions are drawn up for a special gallery subframe, which finally gives reproduction similarity with the original work of art. Order the reproduction of Edward Mink Mink's painting on canvas, and we guarantee you the best color gear, cotton canvas and wood subframe that use professional art galleries.