😱 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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We are the scream - every, single, day…

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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.

First iteration of my idea

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