Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – What could be more appropriate for Halloween than a scream? 😱 I’ve loved the 1893 painting ‘The Scream’ by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch since I was a child. There are many stories about what this painting represents including his own; Munch describes breaking away from a group of friends to watch the sunset, only to have a vision in which the sky turned to blood, the ground turned black and “nature screamed so that only he could hear it”. Most people look at The Scream and assume the figure in the painting is *screaming*, not hearing a scream. There’s also the fact the bridge depicted is a popular suicide bridge near an asylum in which his sister was resident, so experts have theorised that the area was filled with the audible screams of asylum patients.
It’s also been thought that Munch was inspired by a mummy, either that of a Chachapoyas warrior discovered near Peru’s Utcubamba River who appeared to have died screaming (which became a popular attraction – pictured here) or another Peruvian mummy displayed in Florence’s Anthropology Museum. It has since come to light that Munch didn’t visit Florence until after he painted The Scream, but evidence suggests he saw the Chachapoyas warrior when it was displayed in Paris.
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