The Scream, 1893 by Atelier Liesjes

About "The Scream, 1893"

by Atelier Liesjes

About the artwork

pastel or crayon drawing. This is the first and original version of this painting and appears to be a sketch for later ones.

The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the name of four paintings and a lithograph by Edvard Munch.

The Scream is a psychic self-portrait of Edvard Munch. The painting is based on an own traumatic experience.

One evening Munch walked with friends back to the city of Oslo. They stopped on a bridge. While his friends walked on, Munch stayed put, moved by the landscape and the sky with the setting sun. He heard and felt the landscape screaming around him. He felt powerless and depressed. This event impressed him so much that he later recorded it several times on canvas.

Munch painted The Scream in a period following a particularly painful love affair with Millie Thaulow, a married woman. During the relationship, which was marked by jealousy, suspicion and pain, the artist painted a number of canvases illustrating the course of the relationship. When his relationship with Millie Thaulow was definitively over, he painted The Scream. The horrified, despairing figure should then be Edvard Munch.

It is considered the most poignant painting of Munch. It expresses the mental anguish and emotional torment that the painter felt during certain periods in his life.

Munch was a forerunner of expressionism, a style that sought to portray emotions.

Edvard Munch (Løten (Hedmark), 12 December 1863 - Ekely near Oslo, 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter.