Edvard munch influences on the constitution of the world

You must join the virtual exhibition queue when you arrive. If capacity has been reached for the day, the queue will close early. Edvard Munch Norwegian. Not on view. The extreme familiarity of this image today makes it hard to realize how shocking it and other works by Munch were when they were created slightly over a hundred years ago.

Munch's art represented his own emotions, mostly the darker ones of fear, dread, loneliness, and sexual longing, with extraordinary expressiveness. The screaming figure personifies existential horror. A precursor of this image is a drawing of a man Munch himself on a similar bridge, with a blood-red sky above.

Why did edvard munch paint the scream

A text accompanying this drawing states: "I walked with two friends. Then the sun sank. Suddenly the sky turned as red as blood