The Scream Painting By Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch

Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893 had painted The Scream, which was a seminal series of Expressionist Painting. These kinds of paintings depict the deformation of human emotions. The painting of Munch displays a persons scary look on the anxiety, which is called The Cry. In the painting the color of the sky behind the person is red and sort of gray, blue and yellow colored water is also depicted.

The painter had drowned several versions of that particular painting, which are secured in different art museums. Two painted versions are secured in the Munch Museum in Oslo and in the National Gallery of Norway. The Norwegian Billionaire Petter Olsen purchased a version of pastel and secured it, while another pastel version is also protected in the Munch Museum. Paintings of The Scream were precious as well as valuable, thats why the paintings have stolen several times from the museums.

Al though it was stolen twice from the different museums, but in both cases it rediscovered soon. In February 1994 four people had stolen a version of the picture from the National Gallery, where the painting was displaying for the Munich Winter Olympic Games. After three months it had been recovered. Again in 2004 along with Munchs Madonna the scream had been stolen from the Munich Museum in daylight, which recovered by the police after two years.

According to the painter, he got the inspiration to make The Scream from his real life experience. Once at the time of sunset along with two friends Munch was walking on a bridge. Suddenly he felt that, the sky turned into blood red and the fire almost had covered the whole city. So the artist became scared as well as exhausted and he felt that, a boundless scream was passing through the nature. This declaration of Munch reveals that he was inspired by the incident to make the world famous painting.

Some other experts of arts think that the reddish sky, which portrayed at the background, was probably inspired by the outcome of the strong eruption of Krakatoa, volcanic island. The ash was evicted from the volcano and painted the sky. Krakatoa is situated in between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, where a terrific volcanic attack came down around 1883. The sequence and The Scream of the people of that moment possibly had shown in the picture.

Actually Edvard Munch was a symbolist painter, whose paintings considered also as the Frieze of Life, because he is well known as a symbolist painter, who painted the human emotions like love, fear, melancholy etc. The scream was one of his best creations, while The Stick Child, Ashes, Love and Pain and Madonna etc. are included in the other excellent creations of Munch. Before his death at the age of 81 he painted some famous and valuable pictures, but the particular picture has an exceptional value at the present time as it is now used as sort of cartoon. The Scream