THE ECHOING SCREAM The Birth of Expressionism - a talk by Gavin Plumley on 4th March 2026 at Bingley Arts Centre, 2.00pm
When Edvard Munch created The Scream in 1893, he was responding to an intense emotional experience. Today, we would call this experience a panic attack.
Crippling and anxiety making, this primal cry was also a rallying call: for Munch and for the wider world, giving birth to a movement known as Expressionism, showing life not as it is – Realism, or as it might be perceived in a fleeting moment - Impressionism, but as it is experienced within the unembellished core of our being.
Explosive and emotive, the aftershocks of Munch's vision were felt across the world: in art, music, literature, dance and film.
Charting the origins of Expressionism and its historical context, this multifaceted talk embraces artists and thinkers such as Kandinsky, Klee and Schiller, Nietzsche, Freud and Schoenberg, pondering the radical ways in which they both reflected and ignited our inner feelings.
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