Lauren D\u2019Angelo<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n What can you buy with $120 million?\u00a0 Your own private island?\u00a0 A sports car collection?\u00a0 Enough Facebook shares to last you a lifetime?\u00a0 Sure, that\u2019d be great for On Wednesday, May 2nd<\/sup>, Edvard Munch\u2019s The Scream<\/em> sold for a Painted in 1895, The Scream<\/em> is among the most well known Munch, who suffered from agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces and public places, explained his inspiration for the painting: “I was walking along a path with two friends \u2014 the sun was setting \u2014 suddenly the sky turned blood red \u2014 I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence \u2014 there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city \u2014 my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety \u2014 and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.\u201d<\/p>\n As generations die and society evolves and changes, art is the one everlasting Long after the Ritz Carleton has crumbled to the ground and been turned into a Lauren D\u2019Angelo What can you buy with $120 million?\u00a0 Your own private island?\u00a0 A sports car collection?\u00a0 Enough Facebook shares to last you a lifetime?\u00a0 Sure, that\u2019d be great for you.\u00a0 You could also spend $120 million on building an … Continue reading
\nyou.\u00a0 You could also spend $120 million on building an elaborate hotel, paying former deceased federal employees, or paying for broken contracts.\u00a0 You could do these
\nthings, but those costs would be absorbed by society andbenefit nobody.\u00a0 How about spending $120 million on the world\u2019s most well known symbol of modern human anxiety?<\/p>\n
\nrecord amount of $120 million to an anonymous buyer.\u00a0 Though estimated to sell at only about $80 million dollars, that number was quickly surpassed in a fiery 15 minute bidding war.\u00a0 Previously holding the title of the
\nhighest priced masterpiece out there was Picasso\u2019s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust<\/em>, which sold for $106.5 million dollars two years ago.\u00a0 The money made from The Scream<\/em> will go towards the construction of a new art museum, hotel, and art centre in Hvitsten, Norway, where Munch lived.<\/p>\n
\npieces of art.\u00a0 It is part of a series of four pieces which are all made of various media.\u00a0 The one most recently sold was pastel-on-board, and is the most vibrant and colourful of them all.\u00a0 The piece has become an icon for human society, and appears in or on just about everything:mugs, movies, t-shirts, you name it.\u00a0 It is
\nthought to represent \u201cone of the visual keys to modern consciousness,\u201d
\naccording to Sotheby\u2019s New York Head of Impressionism and Modern Art, or
\nperhaps the modern man\u2019s angst.<\/p>\n
\nconstant that will be remembered forever.\u00a0 This one beautiful, haunting piece has evoked feelings of compassion and empathy for the suffering that every individual feels at some level, at some time in their lives.\u00a0 Millions of people
\nflock to visit art masterpieces every year.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because art resonates within
\npeople, and The Scream<\/em> is no different.<\/p>\n
\nlandfill site, art will remain.\u00a0 A thousand years from now, our materialistic \u2018needs\u2019 will be destroyed and replaced, but The Scream<\/em> will remain,
\nas desperate and true as ever. \u00a0$120 million is a lot of money, but why not spend it on something that will be meaningful to society for the rest of eternity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"