Edvard Munch: The Scream of Life - Now Streaming on Docuseek
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Edvard Munch: The Scream of Life |
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52 min. | Subtitled
A film by Sandra Paugam
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"3 1/2 STARS. Reveals visual details otherwise unknowable to the casual Google searcher and provides context that deepens the viewer’s understanding of Munch’s portfolio. Audiences will be surprised to discover Munch’s emotional relatability and catharsis through art."
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World renowned for his painting The Scream (1893) – now a universal symbol of anguish, the Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch (1863-1944), was a painter of emotions, which he was able to express with unparalleled power. Edvard Munch: The Scream of Life explores his work through the prism of nature. It nurtured his entire oeuvre, first literally, through the Norwegian landscapes of his earliest paintings; then symbolically, as an expression of human feelings, and finally, metaphorically, as a representation of the life cycle.
Like no one else in his time, Munch drew on his own existence to invent a resolutely subjective painting. So much so that it is difficult to understand his work without referring to some significant elements of his life: his childhood marked by death and his fragile health, and his difficult romantic relationships. During his long artistic career, he sought to express obsessively his most violent emotions in the face of death and love to bring them together in a large whole, The Frieze of Life. Nature, in perpetual movement, carrying vital momentum, helps him to exalt his anxiety of living through its colors and undulating lines.
Placing the paintings in the Norwegian landscapes that nourished him while searching in the pictorial material for traces of his states of mind, the film offers a dive as close as possible to the painter's mind. Using texts that he left us and graphic transitions playing on fluidity, he offers a sensitive approach to his work.
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