The Scream by Edward Munch

"My friends walked on and there I still stood, trembling with fear - and I sensed a great, infinite scream run through nature."

- Edvard Munch

The Scream by Edward Munch is a disturbing icon of modern art (Expresionism = Expresionisme) that we all can indentify with. We know what it is to feel as the subject does and his plight generates fear and sympathy in equal mesure.

One theory advanced to account for the reddish sky in the background is that Munch had observed an effect of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883: the ash that was ejected from the volcano left the sky tinted red in much of eastern United States and most of Europe and Asia from the end of November 1883 to the middle of February 1884.

This explanation has been disputed by scholars who note that Munch was an expressive (Expresionism = Expresionisme), rather than a descriptive painter.

I personaly like this painting because of the many colors you find in. It's very expressive and it shows the feeling of stress and surprise. Seems like he's covering his ears from something and at the same time his mouth its opened, like screaming. He looks afraid of something,

I heard that Munich had a traumatic life and this was a period where painters were so afraid about what's going to happen in the next century.

The scene is located in Oslo, where Munich is. He studied in Paris and Italy. This man is suposed to be inspired on a Peruvian Mummy he saw.

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Is this "person" screaming, or covering his ears from someone who's screaming??