EDVARD MUNCH: “The scream (the cry)”, 1895 - oil on canvas, 89- 73,5 cm. - Oslo, National Gallery.

This is Edgard Munch's most famous work and one of the most easily recognizable paintings of all the modern art. Its fame has been increased in recent times, after being robber, along with the “Madonna” by the same painter, in which was one of the most important Art robberies of the last years, already solved. The robbery of the two works caused a huge scandal in the Scandinavian country, since both canvases (stolen while the Museum was open and introduced in a car parked outside) were not insured

Beyond controversies, the painting is nowadays a symbol of the anguish of the contemporary world. The terrible deathly pale figure and the bloody colours of the landscape of the foreground, in addition to the forced perspective, cause an immediate sensation of anguish and anxiety to the observer. Munch himself described this painting with these words: “taking a walk at sunset I heard a shout through the nature. I thought I had heard a shout. I painted this picture, I painted clouds like true blood, the colours shouted…”