😱 The Scream
Edvard Munch still connects to us after all these years
My cartoon in today’s - The Post, The Press and Waikato Times - Link to cartoon in the wild
The Scream is a metaphor for nature & Munch was the receptor for its pain. Here he is, so overwhelmed he’s taking time out of the painting only to find more pain in the news...
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Cartoon. Title: Government almost halves methane reduction targets...
We see the Scream, from Edvard Munch’s most famous works of art, collapsed in a wingback armchair.
He had stepped out of the painting to take a break from the chaos. The metaphor of the artwork is of natures pain and how he had actually felt it.
But sadly he’s entered into a world that is chaotic and deliberately trying to hurt Mother Earth even more.
He has a newspaper slowly sliding out from his hand with the title - Farmers Rejoice.
Bonus: I had this idea over the weekend after watching one of our favourite YouTube shows - Great Art Explained - this particular episode is about Edvard Munch and The Scream.
I thought I could use it for a Luxon idea - but, after Sunday’s announcement of methane targets being cut I quickly shifted into moulding this idea into something else.
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Keep safe out there whānau.
Kia kaha,
Emma






Brilliant Emma. Scream is right. Scream out loud. Scream in silence. Just scream and scream some more. Unfortunately, they’ll never be heard by this government.
Emma! Keep on rocking. Greetz from the Netherlands, peazz