Colorado Art Studio

The original as downloaded from the internet

I thought an orange batik would be the perfect fabric for the base and I learned a new technique…staple the fabric while I’m painting so that it doesn’t curl or buckle

The beginning of the painting

The finished painting

My final rendition, stitched and assembled
I ended yesterday’s post by mentioning some other artists who were also symbolists like Klimt, including Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch. So, I decided I definitely needed to do one of his pieces. His painting, The Scream (1893) is such an iconographic piece and is still so recognizable today!

I learned a little bit though…I always thought it was a self portrait of the artist in a manic state. It is in a sense…this is what he wrote in his diary “I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”

It was during this time that Munch’s sister was interned in an insane asylum. Someone has also linked this time period with the eruption of a volcano on the Island of Krakatoa, whose volcanic ash caused intense red sunsets all over the world. Another interesting note is that he rendered several different versions of the painting in his lifetime. And, from time to time one is stolen and then recovered again!

I find all this info really interesting…what information are we passing on in our art?

I will be posting this one for sale on Etsy…I’m still undecided on the Klimt one.