Comment 52996

By d.knox (registered) | Posted December 12, 2010 at 21:50:18

The general consensus is that it's the sky impacting the screamer. The red sky was the atmospheric event, witnessed widely across Europe, resulting from the eruption of Krakatoa. Munch wrote in his diary that he was walking on a path with some friends and the sky suddenly turned red:

blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety — and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the painting is about the sky in Norway after the volcanic eruption, and it is interesting to reflect on why the painting has such resonance.

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