Ghostface”: Horror character inspired by the masterpiece “The Scream”
Ghostface killer in the series horror movie “Scream” with visuals Features a white mask. This mask was originally made by a company that specializes in manufacturing costumes for Halloween costumes.
The mask was made for inspiration. from the series of paintings “The Scream” by artist Edvard Munch. Since 1996 when the first episode was released until the following films, the murderers appearing in the horror series “Scream” have been. Always wearing a black cloak and white mask is an unchanging “fashion formula” of the character Ghostface.
Current Scream – episode The fifth film in the series has been released in theaters and received many positive reviews from critics. The film’s revenue is also very positive, in just the first week of release, the film earned nearly 52 million USD in sales from its initial budget. production capital of 24 million USD.
Besides the “Scream” movie series, there are also many products culture is inspired by the series of paintings “The Scream” by artist Edvard Munch. For example, the expression of little boy Kevin on the poster of the movie “Home Alone” (Home Alone – 1990) is inspired by the painting “The Scream”.
The emoticon depicts a mirror The face screaming in fear was also made inspired by the painting “The Scream”. And there are many other applications in popular cultural life also originates from this famous painting.
In fact, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch made four “The Scream” paintings, the first two were done in 1893 and the remaining two were done in 1895 and 1910.
The series of paintings “Scream” is known as a “portrait of the mind “soul” is “a face that challenges psychological experts” in which the artist depicts a distorted human face with both hands covering the face and eyes and mouth wide open. The background is a nightmare-like chaos. The series of paintings “The Scream” is considered one of the symbols in popular culture.
Behind the “bony” human figure distorted with an open mouth and face expressing horror in the background is The menacing red sky also has deep secrets…
The painting “The Scream” does not actually depict the person screaming
Painting “The Scream” (1893) (Photo: The Guardian).
Painting “The Scream” ” is one of the most enduring and well-remembered paintings in the history of modern painting.
The artist Munch was inspired to make this painting while working. While walking in Oslo (Norway) in 1892, he felt unwell as he passed a bridge. The sun was setting and the sky suddenly turned red. Munch felt as if a scream was spreading. in space.
He once wrote on a black and white lithograph depicting “The Scream”: “I feel a loud scream throughout nature.” Munch wrote in his diary: “I heard a scream and drew this picture of the clouds as if they were the color of blood.” So the character in the painting is hearing a scream, not making a scream as expected.
In another autograph, artist Edvard Munch wrote more clearly about the circumstances in which he composed the painting ” Screaming: “I walked on the bridge with two friends. The sky suddenly turned red. I stopped, exhausted, leaning on the bridge. I stood there trembling with fear see the endless scream spreading in space”.
The character’s head in “The Scream” looks like… a light bulb
The painting depicts a figure The person who seems to be howling has always been an archetypal symbol depicting the panic in front of existence that always makes art analysts engrossed in commenting. The face of that human figure looked like a… burning light bulb.
Munch was a person who was very interested in the scientific inventions of that time, which were innovative inventions. Technological advances help bring electricity into life. At that time, the image of a burning light bulb was a symbol. Munch once shared in his diary that he was obsessed with the technological inventions of the era he lived in.
Images of burning light bulbs appear more and more in Asia. Europe at that time must have been deeply imprinted in Munch’s mind and helped him create the masterpiece “The Scream”.
The miserable life of Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863- 1944) suffered from mental illness. He was always haunted by the idea that death was knocking on his door. His sleep was often interrupted by horrifying nightmares. He also often saw scary ghost images… It was these things that had an impact on him. with Munch’s creative style.
As his anxiety and hallucinations became more severe Munch suffered a severe breakdown. However, fortunately, psychological treatments were effective for him.
The words written on the masterpiece “The Scream” reveal the secret
Initially, it was thought that this inscription was written by the artist himself. but later people thought it was written by someone else. But after a long research process in 2021, experts at the National Museum of Norway believe that this inscription was actually written by artist Edvard Munch.
Ms. Mai Britt Guleng, an expert A researcher on the artist Edvard Munch, who works at the National Museum of Norway, Ms. Guleng believes that this inscription can reveal a lot about the artist’s mental state.
Experts believe that this line was written by Mr. Munch on the painting in 1895 after Mr. Munch attended a meeting at a meeting where a medical student said that the work “The Scream” could only have been painted by. .. a crazy person.
Ms. Guleng commented: “The act of writing on the painting shows many things, it is both witty humor and honesty about unstable mental health. of Mr. Munch.
Mr. Munch is actually very serious about his mental health condition. He is very miserable because his family has members with mental problems. He was very worried about it and often showed that he was also very concerned about it.”
Ms. Guleng commented that Mr. Munch wrote the words “Could only be drawn by a crazy person.” ” in pencil on paintings with a humorous attitude to face the criticism surrounding his work as well as a way for him to face his inner misery and the psychological problems that have arisen. appeared in him from that moment on.
In general, painting experts who study the career of Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) understand that he was very aware of his health problems. My spirit and Munch were even more pressured by the way contemporaries viewed this issue because at that time people still had a lot of harsh discrimination.
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