Welcome Back To Me Screaming

While trying to find an image to put in my blog, I ended up stumbling upon Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, which universally symbolizes anxiety. I can connect this piece with myself not only because I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, but the painting represents perfectly how I have been feeling during this pandemic. Munch was a painter during the expressionist movement, when artists expressed their inner emotions through art. Munch was famous for his passionate artworks depicting life and death, which can be seen in The Scream. During this time, I felt extremely unsure of my future and the world around me, which I tied to the man’s emotions in the painting. The background behind him is topsy-turvy and all over the place, which is where I am at mentally. The sky behind him also looks like a fire, and could represent how during times of crisis, our minds are in flames. To be perfectly frank, that is what my mind would probably look like right now, with everything ranging from the election to the pandemic going on. Interestingly, Munch created this painting before the Flu pandemic in the 1900s, yet it resonates with me and the havoc we are all experiencing right now. I think it is safe to say that there we could look at The Scream at all types of ways, depending on which mood we are currently in. So thank you, Edvard Munch, for creating this piece of art that strikes a cord with my own crazy mind. 

The Scream -- Edvard Munch (1893)