Munch Museum Essays

  • Art Analysis: Edvard Munch's The Scream

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    you were in the time period of the 19th century when oil paintings were becoming more common in the world. The two painting that I chose were The Wivenhoe Park Essex by John, Constable in 1816 and the other painting I chose was The Scream by Edvard Munch in 1893. I chose these two painting because I thought The Wivenhoe Essex reminded me of my cabin up north and the scenery of northern Minnesota with the lakes and pastures in the background. The Wivenhoe art piece looks like a modern day picture of

  • Edvard Munch's The Scream

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    Have your facial expressions ever portrayed how you feel? The painting, the Scream by Edvard Munch is a artistic genre of expressionism. This painting demonstrates a heavy feeling of fear & shock. Fear & shock are created in the painting by the artists design. The Scream is known for its mysterious character, significative colors and loud swirly sky. The mysterious character is a person clasping their face with there hands, wide eyed, on a bridge. The very famous play Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  • Edvard Munch The Scream Essay

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    Edvard Munch masterfully painted The Scream, carefully combining several basic elements of art and using multiple design principles to organize these elements in a way that portrayed his emotions to the viewer. Munch used tempera paint and pastels on cardboard to create The Scream in 1893 (“The Scream”). According to Artsy, “Edvard Munch is renowned for his representations of emotion.” He was a Norwegian painter and printmaker that embedded intense emotional themes into his works (Watson). Munch was

  • Edvard Munch's Painting, The Scream

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    is my illness" (Edvard Munch). Edvard Munch uses this motto to exhibit such a symbolic and meaningful painting. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter born on December 12, 1863. He used his symbolic and expressionist views to create one of the most profound paintings ever created The Scream. There are multiple versions of this image, although this is the most known version. Munch created this painting because of a personal experience he had while walking through nature. Munch exhibits his relation to

  • Madness In Howl By Ginsberg Analysis

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    Reader’s Responses Reader’s Response 1 – Madness in Howl by Allen Ginsberg The Scream (1893) by the expressionist painter Edvard Munch was painted at the end of the nineteenth century during a unique transitional period in European art history. Artists, like Munch and Van Gogh, started to use art to express inner thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than painting subjects objectively, creating a change in their field because of their rejection of traditional painting methods. The Scream (1893)

  • Edvard Munch's The Scream

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    Edvard Munch’s stylistic choices in his painting, The Scream, effectively convey his perspective of fear through his style of the characters, the color, and the stroke mark. Like a skillful artist, Edvard Munch had effectively demonstrate his perspective of fear through the character’s body language and expression. Based on his illustration, fear is demonstrated when the character appears to abnormally cupped his/her pales hands across the sunken cheeks of his/her pale, open-mouthed, skeleton-like

  • A Comparison Of Dreaming In The Works Of Freud And Borges

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    Dreaming is always a great thing to certain people. Some people believe dreaming is an indication of good sleeping habit while some people believe dreaming is an indication of unaware desire. In Freud’s Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora), it demonstrates how dream works as unconscious desire, on the other hand, Borges’ The Circular Ruin provides a powerful reading on dreaming. Therefore, it is interesting to compare how dreaming is presented in both works. In both Freud’s and Borges’ work

  • Bridget Mullen's Art Analysis

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    Bridget Mullen is an amazing and innovative artist. She did an artist talk at the University of North Georgia (UNG) on August 27th at 2pm. The presentation of her art was held at the Gainesville Campus Art Gallery in the Performing Arts building. Recently I also saw Hsiu-Ching Yu at the University of North Georgia at the Gainesville Campus. She was there doing an Art Talk on October 1, 2015 and she had an art gallery set up as well. My favorite piece of art by Mullen is “Neighborhood Watch”. This

  • Oil Painting Comparison

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    In my media exploration and comparison, I chose to compare an oil painting and an acrylic painting. The first painting I want to talk about is “The Scream” painted in Norway in 1893 by Edvard Munch. This is an oil based painting, that uses strong colors to contrast statements. The painting meaning is simple, a man walking on a bridge has a strong moment of anxiety and stress causing an existential crisis therefore his facial expression. Using the bright colors and a wavy sort of spinning type strokes

  • To Be Or Not To Be Soliloquy Analysis

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    This essay will be about Hamlet’s famous, “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy. It starts off when Hamlet walks into a trap laid by Claudius and Polonius. Deep in thought, Hamlet goes off on a rant about Life’s troubles. Throughout the Soliloquy he contrasts action versus inaction. It delves deeply into death and why a person would or wouldn’t want to experience it. By the end he has reached the consensus that too much thinking will keep you from ever acting and thereby kill you. This passage was rendered

  • What Makes A Great Leader Essay

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    Diagnostic essay What makes a great leader, great? A great leader can be made out of many different ideas and opinions and not everyone will agree that any leader is a great leader. Men and women have always been put into different positions of power. That doesn’t mean that every single one of them has been a great leader to their followers or follower because being in control of a group of people doesn’t make you a great leader. You can be a leader of millions or a leader of one, but how you use

  • What Is Chattanooga, Tennessee

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    to do? In Chattanooga, Tennessee, you can go to museum, see landmarks and eat delicious food! A city that will make you want to pack your bags and live there. Looking for an outstanding museum or aquarium? Chattanooga has got you covered! The Tennessee Aquarium is the best aquarium in the South. With two buildings containing river creatures and sea creatures, you are bound to have an amazing time! Another must see sight is the Hunter art museum. It is filled with remarkable architecture and

  • My Experience At The Tampa Museum Of Art

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    Going to a museum was always something that I had wanted to do, but not knowing much about art made me hesitant. The museum that I chose to attend for this project was the Tampa Museum of Art. As my first museum experience, I decided to choose the Tampa Museum of Art because of the different array of work that it offered. The Tampa Museum was divided into three main sections called The Classical World, Echoes of Antiquity, and a section for the landscape artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Classical

  • Natural History Museum

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    The Smithsonian museums present the discovery of new knowledge and preserve our history for the public. The Natural History Museum shows our fascinating world that surrounds us and our place in it. Looking closely at the “Sant Ocean Hall” and the “Living on the Ocean Planet” exhibits, I learned about the biggest surface of the planet, the ocean. The warming of the ocean, ocean acidification, and how the ocean is important to every living organism, including us, are tackled by these exhibitions to

  • The Ringling

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    For my museum visit I had the pleasure of visiting one very close to home, The Ringling. Within the complex, there is more than one attraction. There is the John and Mable Museum of Art, the Circus Museum, and the Ca d'Za. The Ringling is located in Sarasota, Florida and was constructed at the request of John Ringling. Building of the Ringling began in 1925 with the help of architect John. H Phillips. The theme the Ringling was built around can be classified as Renaissance, although many other periods

  • Art Analysis: Tiger In Blossom By Jet Martinez

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    Miranda Thomas VISC 101 Professor Bilbrey March 11, 2023 “Tiger in Blossom” For this formal analysis, I will be discussing how I completed my final art piece, what details were used, techniques, inspiration, weaknesses, and strengths of the art piece. The materials I used to construct my art piece were digital materials, using the app Procreate on my Ipad Pro, on March 9th, 2023. You may be wondering why I decided to go with flowers and tiger as my main objects used to construct my design. I

  • Reflection On Volunteering At Westminster Archives

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    While volunteering at Westminster Archives I was involved with a project conserving and cataloguing a collection of lantern slides. I joined the project midway through, and my first task was to check the lantern slides against the image library card catalogue to see if any were duplicates of images already held in the collection. This was an early lesson in the realities of archive acquisition! My next task was to catalogue the lantern slides onto CALM. As I was working with images, which had varying

  • Final Project Reflection Paper

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    For my final project I will be doing my work over one of the islands state park called the Iao Valley State Monument. I will be talking about what was my inspiration for my work, three goals of the course that ties with this project and also how is connects with the material we went over. Since this is one of the most popular state parks on the island I thought it would be perfect for this project. The beauty and scenery of mother natures valley is what inspired me to my project over this park. One

  • Community Engagement Paper

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    essential task for museums to accomplish. In order to do so, the museums must “determine who those communities are, their needs, and how the museum can work with them to meet their goals”. As technology and the way people learn and communicate change, museums must evolve as well and accommodate exhibits in order to have the community fully engaged into what they are trying to convey in their museum. There are many methods to involve the community, spark interest and help benefit the museum. By

  • Michael Garman Museum

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    According to the American Association of Museums, In the United States, compliance with museum standards is voluntary, although in order for museum to receive accreditation, they must meet criteria pertaining to standards and public accountability. Located in the Old Colorado City national historic district in Colorado Springs, the Michael Garman Museum and Gallery (also known as Magic Town), is a “3,000 square-foot miniature city that combines hundreds of intricately detailed sculptures and cityscapes