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The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch

Definition

"The Scream" is a famous painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. It's known for its expressive style and its depiction of a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky.

Related terms

Expressionism: An art movement where artists sought to express emotional experience rather than physical reality.

Symbolism: A late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through metaphorical images and language mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

Modern Art: Artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, it denotes styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.

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