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 …

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.

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.

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. A text accompanying this drawing …

It belongs to a series of motifs that Munch developed in Berlin and Åsgårdsstrand in the 1890’s. Munch later gave the series the title Frieze of Life, and described this pictorial cycle as a poem...

One is Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, the other, Edvard Munch ’s The Scream. Each represents its respective era through the sheer force of facial expression.

The Scream has become a powerful symbol of existential angst and the anxiety of modern life. The painting’s swirling sky and distorted figure evoke a sense of disorientation and fear.

The Scream is one of the most well-known pictures in the history of art, and has become a popular icon of our time. The figure in the picture has been used in many different contexts, and appears in …