The scream

Mediums: oil, pastel, tempers paints, cardboard.
Dimensions: 91 x 73,5 сm.
Location: National Gallery, Oslo, Norway.

This is the most famous painting by Munch. It is called “the mirror of the 20th century”. Munch depicted a person screaming in despair against the backdrop of a blood-red sky and a highly synthesized landscape. Other people are passing by, ignoring the screaming man. Munch, in all likelihood, was expressing his own feeling of loneliness and despair. It seems like the author wanted to show his fear of all the pains of the world.

“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature,” the artist wrote.