The Scream & Starry Night: Emotions, Symbol & Motives

  • Abdul Ghani Dahlan University Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2014.v20.n1.45235
Keywords: Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Starry Night, The Scream, oil paintings, life, death, human, symbols

Abstract

Starry Night & The Scream is the best known painting by Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch that symbolize fusion of life. The oil on canvas painting technique possesses multiple interpretations; one evident theme is Van Gogh’s communication and Edvard Munch feelings and vision of vastness. Edvard Munch (Scream) and Vincent van Gogh has brought art and life together by communicating using their own personal phenomena experiences and passionately. The expression of universal approach and human mind has really created a journeying of psychological circumstances having a universal appeal which still communicates to us every human being today. Therefore, this research will look into the connotation of symbols or meaning of two great drawings that has certainly not just a painting but also sense of human iconic juxtaposed between art and realism of life.

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Dahlan A. G. (2014). The Scream & Starry Night: Emotions, Symbol & Motives. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 20(1), 331-339. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2014.v20.n1.45235
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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2014)
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Research and Documents

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