{"id":8899,"date":"2018-07-17T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2024-06-19T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:21:15","slug":"the-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/the-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream-cropped-P1007553.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream-cropped-P1007553.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream-cropped-P1007553-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream-cropped-P1007553-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream-cropped-P1007553-768x763.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Scream<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gouache on watercolour paper     24 x 23cm     July 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A gouache painting featuring a head with giant screaming mouth. The head has no body, and is situated in a desolate landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scream is an existential scream, no doubt indebted to The Scream by Edvard Munch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The person in this particular Scream has no body, only a head. This is possibly to show physical impotence in the face of something terrible: the person can&#8217;t even try to run away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The barren and desolate landscape in the painting could be a metaphor for the existence in which the figure finds itself. Maybe an existential crisis in the face of an overwhelming but possibly meaningless universe (as in Much&#8217;s scream). I don&#8217;t actually believe in a meaningless universe, by the way, because I believe meaning is automatically generated by the existence of the universe. No religion needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting probably reflects aspects of existential environmental anxiety, as the destruction of the environment has been a concern of mine for almost sixty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a work of psychological art <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scream Gouache on watercolour paper 24 x 23cm July 2018 A gouache painting featuring a head with giant screaming mouth. The head has no body, and is situated in a desolate landscape. The scream is an existential scream, no doubt indebted to The Scream by Edvard Munch. The person in this particular Scream has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,12],"tags":[29,118,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}