Thursday, October 14, 2004

Silent screams, vacant halls, institutional fears, bloodied walls



Amazing how similar an inflatable rendition of Munch's most famed work can be?



Someone stole The Scream, actualy, three people. It's worth about $65 mil. I find that fascinating...not the value, that someone stole it. Can you imagine having such an emotionally vivid piece hanging on your wall? You might as well slit your wrists in agony, bleed all over the walls, then proceed to ram into the wall with your head, denouncing all that is evil, corrupt, inhumane, racist, ignorant. Live in your own world of isolation and frustration, tormented by the existence of all that doesn't understand you. Sometimes you just want to jump over the rail to avoid the weight of the world. And now I'll never have the chance of seeing this copy in person, to know that despite the feeling of unadulterated isolation, there is never an isolated existence. Que triste.

1 Comments:

Blogger Marianne said...

So, i'm a complete randomer who's reading your page - hope you don't feel violated or anything, I just enjoy your writing.

Anyways, Scream (It might have been a different version - I think there are 4 or something) was stolen in 1994 from the National Gallery in Oslo on the night of the opening of the Lillehammer Olympics. With pretty much all the rest of Norway absorbed with the opening, 4 people stole the painting way too easily, leaving a postcard of laughing men in the empty spot.

Strangely movie-like don't you think?

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