Wednesday, December 01, 2004

The Scream



"I was walking along the road with two friends.
The sun was setting.
I felt a breath of melancholy -
Suddenly the sky turned blood-red.
I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired -
looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword
over the blue-black fjord and town.
My friends walked on - I stood there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature."
Edward Munch 22 January 1892

It was about august that I heard "The Scream" is stolen, not like in movies with many tricks and acrobatic maneuver but very simple:Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned visitors watched on Sunday.
One robber threatened staff with a gun before the pair escaped in a waiting car.
as I head the this news I was very sad and still looking forward if it could be find again
Munch didn't have an easy life and with this painting on canvas with tempera and pastel he managed to show the fear and terror in all human existence.
This Picture has been popular especially since World War II.
The "scream " was a gift to humanity, a gift for all those tears which never find their way to flow ,for all suffocated screams in throats and for the all who suffers.