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The Scream - A rendition of the original expressionist oil painting 'Der Schrei der Nature' by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.  Translated from the German text, this means 'The Scream of Nature'.  Sometimes, also called 'The Cry', in Munch’s native language the word 'skrik' also translates to mean scream.  However, the word actually more cognitive with the English word 'shriek'. In this context 'The Scream' indicates a very loud, very high pitched, almost piercing sound.  

Indeed, the blood red sky and the agonised face of the emaciated figure cannot help but tell the viewer, this person is trying to stop the sound. There have been many theories, as to what The Scream means.  In a diary entry, written in Nice on January 22^nd 1892, Munch recalls that while walking with friends at sunset, 'suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city'.

Some say that the 'blood red' sky he witnessed was not a figment of his imagination.  At that time much of Europe, Asia and America had red skies.  Due to the ash clouds, which had spread since Krakatau erupted, only months before.  Whether it was an emotion or a description Munch was writing about, the intense impression the scene rendered upon him, left the artist 'trembling with anxiety'.  And, in Munch's own words, it was then that he 'sensed an infinite scream passing through nature'.  Which he then so perfectly reiterated upon canvas, in order for us all to understand.