Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/the scream (1893, norway)

The Scream

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Original – The Scream is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including The Scream, had a formative influence on the Expressionist movement. Munch created two versions in paint and two in pastels, as well as a lithograph stone from which several prints survive. Both painted versions have been stolen, but since recovered. In 2012, one of the pastel versions commanded the at-the-time highest nominal price paid for an artwork at a public auction.

Reason

one of the most well know, iconic and well received art pieces of all time

Articles in which this image appears

The Scream, Edvard Munch, Expressionism, Modern art etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Edvard Munch

• Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 00:23, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

@Carlosmarkos2345: FYI nominators do remove items at FPC urgents once urgent conditions no longer apply. In this case, several days ago once the nom got 5 votes. Bammesk (talk) 13:34, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

• Question Is this the recognized 'best-according-to-art-experts' version and are the colours/tone true to life? Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:07, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

• Well, there are black pixels (0, in the join at right) and totally white pixels (255, white brush strokes) so it appears the exposure is spot on. However, the tone curve may be off, making the overall look very murky... Haven't seen it "live", so I can't say for sure. --Janke | Talk 10:47, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

  Looks under-saturated. -- Sca (talk) 12:32, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

• Support – It has a reliable source. The color tones (contrast, etc.) match the sample crop on the National Gallery of Norway's source page [1]. (and shot with a pro camera) Bammesk (talk) 01:45, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Colors match up with the Gallery's scan ―Howard • 🌽³³ 07:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 02:54, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Moonreach (talk) 14:19, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 14:34, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:Edvard Munch, 1893, The Scream, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73 cm, National Gallery of Norway.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:24, 6 August 2024 (UTC)