The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch.

Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age - wracked …

Nov 28, 2025 · The Scream is one of the most familiar images in modern art and a canonical piece in the art nouveau style. It stemmed from a panic attack that Munch suffered in 1892, which he …

Edvard Munch's The Scream is one of the world's most famous motifs. There are several versions of The Scream, and Munch also wrote a text about the motif before reproducing it in pictures.

Second only to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream may be the most iconic human figure in the history of Western art.

In 1892 Munch painted the picture Sick Mood at Sunset. Despair, a motif that bears many similarities to The Scream. The colours, the format and size, the landscape and background figures – all are the …

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.

The Scream is central to Munch’s Frieze of Life cycle, which includes interconnected works like Anxiety (1894) and Melancholy (1896). Each piece explores facets of love, fear, and death through recurring …

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch is one of the most recognizable paintings in the history of art. Known for its clear, almost to the point emotional message, the painting is often interpreted as a direct reflection …

What is known for sure is that between 1893 and 1910, Munch produced five versions of The Scream, two in oil and two in pastel along with a lithographed edition.