Three Paintings

[jazzy_dave]

 

Edvard Munch - The Scream

Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked with anxiety and uncertainty.





Francis Bacon - Screaming Pope

Bacon's popes depart even further from their source, often replacing the pontiff’s head with the equally recognizable screaming face of the wounded nurse mown down by the soldiers’ gunfire in the Odessa Steps sequence of Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin.



My own postmodern version - Blank Generation

Disturbing aren't they. Here s music to equal it -

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three screaming popes (1988-1989)

Mark-Anthony Turnage (*1960) : Three screaming popes after Francis Bacon (1988-1989) - Birmingham Symphonic Orchestra - Simon Rattle, conductor
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) : Pope I (1951) - Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collection, Aberdeen (UK) - Pope II (1951) - Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (Germany) - Pope III (1951)


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