Looks at Edvard Munch's THE SCREAM and the impact this piece of art has had and is having on society in all areas as an influence and in terms of POP CULTURE. Downloading the PowerPoint will show full animation and transition of slides.

2. Pop Culture: An Overview
The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the
context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that
predominates in a society at a point in time.
In Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life
most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is
determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: styles of dress,
the use of slang, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular
culture.
Popular culture is also informed and fuelled by the mass media (mass culture).
Pop Culture: An Overview
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read
and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training,
the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate
of their civilization.”
Walter Lippman
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3. Selling 'The Scream'

4. Edvard Munch (pronounced "moonk")
Painter (1863–1944)
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is widely known for his
iconic pre-Expressionist painting "The Scream" ("The Cry").
Born in 1863 in Löten, Norway, famed painter Edvard
Munch established a free-flowing, psychological-themed
style all his own. His painting "The Scream" ("The Cry";
1893), is one of the most recognizable works in the history
of art. His later works proved to be less intense, but his
earlier, darker paintings ensured his legacy. A testament to
his importance, "The Scream" sold for more than $119
million in 2012—setting a new record.
In Paris in the 1880s he fell under the influence of Paul
Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh, and he went from
representative art -- painting what he saw -- to a more
internal form, painting what he felt about what he saw,
what they ended up calling Expressionism in the art
world.

5. Handwritten beneath the image of the figure on a bridge
is the title of the work in German—"Geschrei"—and, in
the lower right-hand corner, the phrase
"Ich fühlte das grosse Geschrei durch die Natur"
(I felt the great scream in nature)
It is a quotation from an autobiographical text Munch had
written some years earlier, in which he described an
experience he had while walking along the road near his
hometown, Kristiania (now Oslo). Munch made about
thirty impressions of this print, some on coloured paper or
hand coloured in watercolour, and some without the title
and text. Because an image inked on a lithography stone is
flipped in the printing process, lithographs based on pre-
existing images generally reverse the original. In this case,
Munch inked the image in reverse so the printed sheet
would have a composition identical to that of the painting.
The Collection: Munch's 'The Scream‘
Date: 1895;
signed 1896
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions:
composition: 13 15/16 x 10" (35.4 x 25.4 cm);
sheet: 20 11/16 x 15 7/8" (52.5 x 40.3 cm)

6. Of the four versions of The Scream made by Munch
between 1893 and 1910, this pastel-on-board from 1895 is
the only one remaining in private hands; the three other
versions are in the collections of museums in Norway.
"The startling power of Munch's original work endures
almost despite the image's present-day ubiquity," notes
Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture. "The
visual subtlety and complexity of this composition can't be
summed up in a cliché.“
A haunting rendition of a hairless figure on a bridge under
a yellow-orange sky, The Scream has captured the popular
imagination since the time of its making. The image was
originally conceived by Munch as part of his epic Frieze of
Life series, which explored the progression of modern life
by focusing on the themes of love, angst, and death.
Especially concerned with the expressive representation of
emotions and personal relationships.
An in Depth Look at 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
The Scream
Pastel on board
1895

7. Munch's style of painting spoke of expression through
symbols rather than physical reality. He was one of the
pioneers of German Expressionism, the pre-World War art
movement which saw artists expressing emotions in their
artworks.
The Scream is widely recognised as an iconic masterpiece
of expressionism in POPULAR CULTURE and, in description
of his pastel version, Munch wrote the following lines,
which bring out the emotion captured in the drawing:
“I was walking along the road with two friends. The Sun
was setting –
The Sky turned a bloody red
And I felt a whiff of Melancholy – I stood
Still, deathly tired – over the blue-black
Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire
My Friends walked on – I remained behind –
shivering with Anxiety – I felt the great Scream in
Nature”
An in Depth Look at 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
The Scream
Pastel on board
1895

8. David Norman (of Sotheby’s):
“It is a universal image of anxiety, suffering, the response to
the modern age.”
Godfrey Barker (expert in the art market):
“Since then, ‘The Scream’ has become an icon of pop
culture: from T-shirts and inflatable dolls, to Macaulay
Culkin impersonating the painting in ‘Home Alone’. It's
even found its way on to ‘The Simpsons’ and versions of the
picture with a shrieking Homer Simpson. All those knocks
offs have actually made the painting a lot more valuable.
Fame unquestionably drives up prices. That's assisted by
Homer Simpson.”
Louisa Buck (is a critic with the Art Newspaper):
“‘The Scream’ monetary value may be less important than
its enduring value as social commentary. We live in
troubled times. We have the financial crisis, which shudders
on, and I think Munch's "Scream" really expresses that.”
The pop culture bump of 'The Scream‘
This version,
executed in 1895
in pastel on cardboard,
was sold for more than
US$120 million in 2012.

9. Macaulay Culkin’s iconic grimace in John
Hughes’ Home Alone is one of the more common
alleged allusions.
Over time, it has appropriated and
popularized totally hijacked the epitome of the
“Uh-oh!” gesture

10. Director/animator/cultural
figurehead/ever-the-Goth-boy Tim
Burton has often sited his German
Expressionist influences.
Check The Scream homage in his 1982
film Vincent as the title character
squawks with his oblong, sullen mug.

11. Originally created in 1977, Winston Smith’s Nuclear
Scream was published on the backside of the Dead
Kennedys’ Kill the Poor 7″ in 1980. It’s pretty much
Munch’s Scream lithograph, but updated for
depressingly still-current context.

12. Andy Warhol, The Scream After Munch, 1984-1987
As Andy Warhol’s other Marilyn, The Scream’s hero has been silk-screened over and over,
looking like a psychedelic colouring book, since 1983.

13. Edvard Munch,
The Scream, 1895.
Lithograph in black on heavy
white wove paper, 14 x 10 in.
Collection of Catherine Woodard and
Nelson Blitz, Jr
Andy Warhol, The Scream
(After Edvard Munch), 1984.
Screenprint on Lenox
Museum Board, 40 x 32 in.
Collection of Henriette Dedichen, Oslo.

14. The 1977 Abacus edition of The Primal Scream by Primal Therapy inventor Arthur Janov Ph.D,
featuring a reproduction of the lower portion of Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting The Scream.

15. Ghostface was named after a rubber Halloween mask inspired by the Edvard Munch
painting The Scream. He has also been called the Woodsboro Killer, after the town where the
Ghostface costume was first used to commit murders.

16. Monstrous: The Silence was inspired by Munch's The Scream
In the sixth season of Doctor Who, the show’s creators modelled their aliens – ironically
called The Silence – on Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting The Scream.

17. David Firth’s internet animation series Salad Fingers is incredibly creepy, so creepy that its
protagonist seems to be in horror of itself. Definite Munch vibe here.

18. Erró's variations on The Scream are also in the pop genre. Erró gives his creations a critical
and satirical twist. In Ding Dong (1979), he decks Munch's work out in comic-like features. In
The Scream, the scream is specifically set against the racket from a group of children in a
school playground, while in The Second Scream (1967), the scream has to drown out what is
clearly an infernal din from a plane, which becomes a reference to the occupation of Norway
and, more generally, to the horrors of World War 2.

19. “I hesitate to call this a new contest, but
M&Ms is running a promotion for the
new Dark M&Ms. On the second
anniversary of the theft of Edvard
Munch’s ‘The Scream’ from Oslo, M&Ms
announced their commitment to finding
the painting by adding to the current
reward of $2 million. Now the reward has
an additional bonus of 2 million M&Ms.
In case you were wondering how many
M&Ms that is, well, it’s a lot. 2.2 tons. So
if you’ve got that Scream painting sitting
around taking up room in your house,
just know that by returning it you’re
going to have to make a lot more room
for 40,000 packages of Dark M&Ms. Of
course if you’re the one returning it,
you’re gonna go to prison. But fret not!”
Dark M&Ms Offer Reward

23. Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is probably
the most recognizable painting in the
world. There are actually four versions of
‘The Scream’, which were done at the
end of the 19th century.
Ron English’s version, Harmonic Scream,
is quite a bit different. In keeping with
his usual style, the figures in the painting
are most likely members of a band.

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