Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Edvard Munch Screams at the Dentist

You're probably familiar with Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream," so how do you connect that with this seriously unhappy tooth.



There you see the screaming tooth.

Zen Yogi:  wouldn't a dry mouth oral rinse simply be water?

It does seem that way, Yogi, but this is the much better patented kind.




"The Scream" by Edvard Munch (1893)

Now you know why he is screaming and you're welcome.


The Scream is Munch's most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man.  Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, it reduces the agonized figure to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis.

With this painting, Munch met his stated goal of "the study of the soul, that is to say the study of my own self".  Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature."  He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, "for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, 'The Scream?' I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."

WIKI:  Edvard Munch

No comments: