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Monstrous Café => Say It! => Topic started by: prezhorusin04 on September 01, 2006, 05:43:38 PM

Title: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: prezhorusin04 on September 01, 2006, 05:43:38 PM

Two Stolen Edvard Munch Works Recovered:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/sns-ap-norway-munch-theft,0,5236525.story?track=rss

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2068/scream1nx7.jpg)

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Dark Lord M on September 01, 2006, 05:45:26 PM

I just read about that in wikipedia! I didn't even know it was stolen! :lol:

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Psyha on September 01, 2006, 05:46:17 PM

I heard about that today, we had to write about it in Language Arts. :-p

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: jordyn on September 02, 2006, 02:26:15 PM

those sort of creations are always a fascinating way to look into the mind of an artist.

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Psyha on September 02, 2006, 05:01:24 PM

Our teacher told me that the person standing in the far back was him and I was the person screaming in the foreground.

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Dark Lord M on September 02, 2006, 05:11:26 PM

I don't like to look at the picture too long, it scares me.  :-P

(No, really it does scare me.)

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Shadowborn on September 06, 2006, 12:10:17 PM

I read about the recovery of the paintings on Yahoo! news, and the author of the article inadvertantly managed to change the entire way I look at "The Scream." The journalist had written a brief description of the painting, apparently feeling that some readers might not recognize it by its title, and had written "a portrait of a person screaming or hearing a scream."

I'd never thought that the person in the picture might not be the one screaming, but rather reacting to hearing a scream...and it actually makes more sense to me the more I look at it.

Title: Re: Munch's 'Scream' and 'Madonna' Recovered
Post by: Morticia on September 06, 2006, 02:43:02 PM

I'm always thrilled when artwork is recovered.

It's so very precious - there's only ONE original and that makes it so valuable, not in dollars and cents, but precious for the glimpse into the artist's mind that is shared with the world.

I got to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" once in the Armand Hammer exhibit.  I simply could not move away from it.  I could see where Van Gogh's fingers had made strokes with the paint.

I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

~Morticia