It was painted in 1893
This painting is an expression of own fear. The influence of Munch's life in his work was crucial. This Norwegian artist, from humble family, lived a difficult time in her infancy:
Her mother died when he was five years old and her sister died when he was fourteen years old. These were the reasons for a life of dissatisfaction: The failure with women, the displeasure of bourgeois society in Paris and his problems with alcohol. All this, apart from of his depressed an introverted character, it did to take refuge in his paintings, which reflect their traumas.
The Scream would be tragic culmination of this feeling that he felt about life.
The moment that gave birth to "The Scream" was this: "I was walking with two friends on the road, and then the sun went down, suddenly, the sky turned red as blood. I stopped, leaned against the fence, inexplicably tired. Tongues of fire and blood to extend on the blue-black fjord. My friends continue to walk, while I stayed back, trembling with fear, and felt the huge scream, infinite, by nature”
With this famous work of art he was trying to express, with a new language, their experiences on love, illness, death and nature.
The gesture of "The Scream", considered the most expressive of contemporary art, to represent the discouraged and fear of modern man faced to an inevitably changing world.
This work influenced the Expressionist movement that emerged in alemania in 1905. The expressionist artist saw the painting as a means of relief, expression of human suffering and social injustice. These topics should be treated from aggressive compositions , strong colors, and so draw the viewer's attention.
