Edvard Munch’s original title for THE SCREAM was actually THE SCREAM OF NATURE. Boy howdy, talk about nature’s joke!
In his diary Munch wrote: “One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became THE SCREAM.”
Sound familiar?
