The Scream by Edvard Munch 1893
1.) The Scream’s character isn’t really screaming. Munch claims that the scream originated from the person’s surroundings. At the bottom of his 1895 work, the artist wrote in German, “I felt a large scream pass through nature.” The Scream of Nature was Munch’s original intended title for the piece.
2.) A mummy may have served as the model for the character in The Scream. The artist’s memory of a hollow-eyed, connected Peruvian mummy on display at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro in Paris in 1889 may have served as inspiration for the screaming head posture with hands cupped over it.
3.) It was stolen not once, but twice!…
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