Symbolist (1893-1898 CE)

Question 1

The Scream IDs

Answer 1

Edvard Munch
1893 CE
Symbolist
Tempera and pastels on cardboard

Question 1

The Scream

Answer 1

Themes of relationships, life, death, and fear
Captures sound and emotion
3 parts (bridge, landscape, and sky)
Sky (red from volcanic dust)
Work of remembered sensation instead of actual reality
Figure is styled after a Peruvian mummy
Meant to represent a nightmare
Rejects naturalism
Expressive style
Heightens emotional power through lines
Figure feels the scream of nature
Inner experience and unseen forces

Question 2

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Answer 2

Read from right to left
Explores the human purpose
Themes of death, life, narrative, and poetry
Unproportionate figures
Flora and fauna in Tahiti
3 women protecting a baby
2 cloaked figures with an illuminated person looking at them
Central figure picking fruit (Adam and Eve reference!) (sin is human!)
Kittens
Child eating an apple (sin is passed onto children)
Goats (provides)
Blue sculpture (religious idol with its arms out, references everlasting things)
2 women on a rock (healthy young woman and an old woman)
The story is of the old woman’s life, and it ends with her accepting her impending death

Question 3

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? IDs

Answer 3

Paul Gauguin
1897-1898 CE
Symbolist
Oil on canvas

Question 4

Symbolism style

Answer 4

Advocated the expression of an idea over realism in the natural world
Imaginary dream worlds with mysterious figures (literature, Biblical, or Greek mythology)
Psychological (erotic or mystical)
Themes (love, fear, anguish, death, sexual awakening, and unrequited desire)