Compare and Contrast

Here I have the original "Scream" art piece, and I included my "re-done" art piece of the same painting.

When I tried to develop what I would change of the original Scream painting, I wanted to recreate the  fore-figure to actually give a better understanding of Scream. I decided to be a bit humorous with this, and decided to bring in the horror character from the movie series Scream. I also changed the two individuals in the background further down the boardwalk, to actually one person; and have that person running (and screaming) away from the horror character. I changed a few colors here and there throughout the painting, but I tried my best to keep it to as close as possible to the original background scene. 

Instead of "re-painting" the art piece, I decided to use color pencils and a "pitt pen", and use the "stippling" method to create my own interpretation of the original scream. This project took a bit longer then I wanted it, but it turned out pretty good considering my time limit on this piece.

My Aesthetics Project

Art work, "The Scream"

Artist: Edvard Munch

Period/Style: Expressionism

Created: 1893 - 1893

Genre: Abstract Art

Painting's current location: National Gallery, Munch Museum

Media: Tempra, Oil Paint, Pastel

Note(s):

There are many versions of this painting by different artist that portrayed the same painting, but of their perspective. 

Subjective Critique:

I find "The Scream" painting to actually be an interesting piece of art work. At first glance, my eyes scan right to the "unknown" subject that has it's hands on it's face that showing a "surprised" expression instead of what the art piece is named as. And as for the complete art piece with the two individuals walking in the distance, the mixture of colors gives the impression of a landscape and the setting of day/evening of when the piece was done. There are three reasons that I would like to state of which I do not like within this art work. The first would be the "main" individual that is standing there; of what I have learned of this piece, the subject was to be the artist himself with him reacting to thoughts within his head after a night out with friends. Second, would be of the mixture of colors within the landscape, of which is sort of hard to follow of what is real and what is "dream-like". And my final thoughts of what I do not like of this piece would be the perspective of the art work, where the two individuals, the two boats in the water/lake, and the main individual art not quite in proper perspective, or even better explained that they're not scaled correctly to each other and the environment. 

Objective Critique:

The work portrayed by Munch is an abstract painting that consist of pastel colors that are used to describe the art piece throughout the art piece. The artist uses the line method to follow throughout art piece from the individual in the foreground and travels along the boardwalk to the sky/landscape around the piece. Some of these lines are straight (describing the walk way area), and the swerving lines shows the flow of the sky and landscape. Munch uses shape to describe the individuals within the art piece as well as the boardwalk they are walking on. The viewer's eye is focused on the individual that is in foreground that is formed by shape and giving the impression that the individual is screaming. Munch uses the Elements of Art and Principles of Design effectively throughout this painting. 

Artwork in progress of my impression of this painting:

This art piece is being created by color pencils and pitt pen ink. 

Art style done by "Stippling Method".