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# Visual & Decorative Arts Blog
## [Top 10 Paintings | ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/art-of-fine-gifts/top-10-paintings-the-scream-by-edvard-munch)
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**Painted in 1893**, *The Scream *is Munch’s most famous work and is generally regarded as a precursor to the **Expressionist** art movement. The instantly recognizable composition is both **instantly striking** and lastingly haunting, capturing as it does an **intense emotional experience**. The now iconic androgynous figure in the foreground is seemingly swept up in the same distortion that affects the landscape. This creates the impression that the whole scene **pulsates** with agitation and energy, in keeping with Munch’s intention to depict a subject’s **personal experience** of the world around them.
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## [Art Movements | Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/art-of-fine-gifts/art-movements-symbolism-fauvism-expressionism)
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** Art in the twentieth century**, like the social environment in which it was produced, underwent a process of **constant and rapid change**. Painting in Europe no longer had to represent external reality through a series of pictorial conventions – historical events could be accurately recorded instead through the newer media of **photography** and film. Changes in the structure of the art market, too, away from the grand public ‘Salons’ to a system of private galleries and collectors, meant that paintings could be smaller, **more personal** and more experimental. Artists could **respond to the changing reality** around them and could also aim to be ‘modern’: to produce paintings that were innovative and exciting, full of **radical new effects** and new meanings.
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## [Edvard Munch's The Scream | Masterpieces of Art](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/art-of-fine-gifts/bid/77792/Edvard-Munch-s-The-Scream-Masterpieces-of-Art)
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***The* *Scream*** is Edvard Munch's most famous work of art. It is easily recognisable and eternally haunting. The figure at the centre opens its mouth in an almost **audible scream** of agony while colours swirl in the background. But what influenced Munch to create this masterpiece? With the upcoming release of our new book [Edvard Munch: Masterpieces of Art](http://www.flametreepublishing.com/Edvard-Munch-Masterpieces-of-Art.html), we take a look at Munch's life and the influences that led to the *Scream*.
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## [Edvard Munch's Oscillations of the Self: Masterpieces of Art](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/art-of-fine-gifts/bid/77535/Edvard-Munch-s-Oscillations-of-the-Self-Masterpieces-of-Art)
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**Last Wednesday** saw the return of the popular **‘Museum Selfie’ day**, a Twitter project initiated last year by the group of Museum professionals behind the website [CultureThemes](http://culturethemes.blogspot.co.uk/). The hashtag ran rife, with people posing in front of famous paintings, re-sharing the [altered Vermeer image](http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/41368831590), and making museum exhibits look desperate to take a picture of themselves. The craze of the selfie in recent years – ‘selfie’ was named [Oxford Dictionary’s 2013 Word of the Year](http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/press-releases/oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-2013/) – highlights what could be described as an **addiction to self-portraiture**, and the enthusiasm for the ‘museum selfie’ in particular indicates a fundamental need or desire to acknowledge that self: for the photographer to become a part of the photo and exist within its created art. With the upcoming release of Flame Tree’s ‘Edvard Munch: Masterpieces of Art’, we thought we’d have a look at how Munch’s **tormented and emotionally vibrant paintings** depict the self, and how his emotions and experiences flavour as well as constitute the subject matter of his work
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