After Munch

The Scream

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893. Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 × 73 cm. National Gallery of Norway, Oslo.

One bead for each patch of the painting. A bead grows with the light under it and takes a little of the colour, so the sky comes out large and warm and the figure small and dark. The ripple starts at the mouth.

“I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”Munch, in his diary, 1892