Complete the lead-in text using the words and phrases given.

Expressionism misery and conflicts the unconscious convulsed and tortuous reflected social awareness completely transformed alienation agonized person stressed out and angst-ridden visual symbol advances social and political agenda is distorted skull-like head ghostly naturalistic imagery shrieks of terror penetrated popular culture basic fears and anxieties

Edvard Munch, Norway's most popular artist, is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of German and Central European ____________. Munch's ______________ art was formed by the ______________ of his time, and, even more important, by his own unhappy life. Childhood tragedy, intense and dramatic love affairs, alcoholism, and ceaseless traveling are __________ in his works, particularly in paintings like The Sick Child, The Scream, and Vampire. Munch's pictures show his _____________ and his tendency to express many of the ____________________ of mankind.

Munch’s The Scream is possibly the most powerful _____________ ever created for the anxieties of modem life. During the final years of the 19^th century, when the artist did this work, society was being _______________________ — politically, socially and technologically. New machines like the airplane, the automobile the telephone, and the radio were changing people’s lives. Modern cities were growing rapidly, and with them a sense of isolation and__________. And __________ in science and psychology were establishing the importance of emotions and ______________. Artists of the time like Munch, needed to express their feelings about these disturbing changes. In The Scream, Munch doesn’t just paint what a person in pain might look like. He sees the world through the eyes of this _____________. In this painting, the entire landscape ______________ by pain and despair. A _______figure clutches its ______________ in agony. Blood-red lines vibrate around it like _____________.

Critics _______ when the Norwegian artist first exhibited the lurid canvas in Berlin in 1893. It caused a huge scandal. But the bleak, agonizing figure depicted in Munch’s canvas - and so alien to the __________________ of the 19th century - resonates with meaning in the wired world of the 1990s. In recent years, The Scream has joined The Mona Lisa as one of art history’s most reproduced icons. The image has been used for every __________________ you can possibly think of, from feminism to the environment to politics. Just how deeply the image has __________________ is clear in the art gallery’s companion exhibit, which features editorial and humorous cartoons, posters, advertising material and an array of mugs, T-shirts, mouse-pads, inflatable dolls and even a beer bottle and a night-light emblazoned with The Scream. It has become this image of modern man—totally _____________________.

Edvard Munch, Norway's most popular artist, is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of German and Central European Expressionism. Munch's convulsed and tortuous art was formed by the misery and conflicts of his time, and, even more important, by his own unhappy life. Childhood tragedy, intense and dramatic love affairs, alcoholism, and ceaseless traveling are reflected in his works, particularly in paintings like The Sick Child, The Scream, and Vampire. Munch's pictures show his social awareness and his tendency to express many of the basic fears and anxieties of mankind.

Munch’s The Scream is possibly the most powerful visual symbol ever created for the anxieties of modem life. During the final years of the 19^th century, when the artist did this work, society was being completely transformed —politically, socially and technologically. New machines like the airplane, the automobile the telephone, and the radio were changing people’s lives. Modern cities were growing rapidly, and with them a sense of isolation and alienation. And advances in science and psychology were establishing the importance of emotions and the unconscious. Artists of the time like Munch, needed to express their feelings about these disturbing changes. In The Scream, Munch doesn’t just paint what a person in pain might look like. He sees the world through the eyes of this agonized person. In this painting, the entire landscape is distorted by pain and despair. A ghostly figure clutches its skull-like head in agony. Blood-red lines vibrate around it like shrieks of terror.

Critics howled when the Norwegian artist first exhibited the lurid canvas in Berlin in 1893. It caused a huge scandal. But the bleak, agonizing figure depicted in Munch’s canvas - and so alien to the naturalistic imagery of the 19th century - resonates with meaning in the wired world of the 1990s. In recent years, The Scream has joined The Mona Lisa as one of art history’s most reproduced icons. The image has been used for every social and political agenda you can possibly think of, from feminism to the environment to politics. Just how deeply the image has penetrated popular culture is clear in the art gallery’s companion exhibit, which features editorial and humorous cartoons, posters, advertising material and an array of mugs, T-shirts, mouse-pads, inflatable dolls and even a beer bottle and a night-light emblazoned with The Scream. It has become this image of modern man—totally stressed out and angst-ridden.

2 Look through the NOTES and watch the Episode “The Private Life of a Masterpiece”. (Мультимедийный каталог 1556 →Unit 9)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [muŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) - a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art.

Expressionism, as a cultural movement, originated in Germany at the start of the 20th-century. It sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality. It is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect.

Hans Jaeger, novelist

Evening on Karl Johan – Munch’s painting

3 Watch the episode again and fill in the gaps with the missing information. Write no more than THREE words. (00:00 – 00:46)

Why do people love this image so much? It’s very ________ to me, I mean, it’s _____________. It’s a __________________. And yet people love the damn thing.

It’s an image that is ___________. I think that’s what _______ people.

The Scream, by Edward Munch, one of the world’s _____________. Even, it’s said, ________________ around the world, than The Mona Lisa. This is not just a painting anymore; it’s _________, an idea that has entered our psyche and spread ___________ through popular culture.

Why do people love this image so much? It’s very weird to me, I mean, it’s a nightmare image. It’s a genuinely disturbing picture. And yet people love the damn thing.

It’s an image that is compulsive. I think that’s what grabs people.

The Scream, by Edward Munch, one of the world’s most recognizable images. Even, it’s said, more widely reproduced around the world, than The Mona Lisa. This is not just a painting anymore; it’s an icon, an idea that has entered our psyche and spread likea virus through popular culture.

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