SCREAM PAIN LOVE: Edvard Munch and Existential Anxiety

[@EduardVodovytskyi]

Very interesting thoughts, explains a lot. Thank you

[@dfpromo1869]

Good analysis, I liked it. Thank you.

[@dethkon]

Is it inspired by “EAT PRAY LOVE?” Lol you have the best titles.

[@JulieReshe]

it is uninspired by it

[@andrew_mcintosh]

What I find striking about "Anxiety" is the face of the chap on the left of the painting. It always struck me as a non-human face, and it always seemed to me that it reveals some truth about the whole scene.

[@JulieReshe]

It also might be too human, too human to tolerate

[@christianrokicki]

Another way to interpret Love and Pain is as a transfiguration of the earlier Sick Child. With the same collapsed gesture. What is most telling is the way his embrace appears out of alignment and to miss its apparent object. He is frozen while the ‘vampire’ attempts to breathe a kind of life into his corpse. Here we are confronted and haunted by a similar indeterminacy as we see in the ‘pin-prick’ eyes that induce such anxiety on the bridge; and those that do look at us seem dead.

[@alecfraher7122]

isn't scream a primal running away from a reality confused with and by the conceptual neologism of an abjection imposed by throwness, facticity and falleness ...

[@alecfraher7122]

incidentally, didn't Karl Polyani portrait Scream as, intended by Munch as an inevitable reaction to untrammled rent seeking ...

[@alecfraher7122]

see Landscape of Abandonment by Salerno(sp)