ArtCurious: The Disastrous Inspiration behind Munch's "The Scream" | Art & Object

Subscribe to our free e-letter!

Webform

I agree to be emailed

At Large December 6, 2018 Jennifer Dasal

Edvard Munch,The Scream, 1910, tempera on panel.

https://media.artandobject.com/ALC_05_mixdown.mp3

Welcome to A Little Curious, a series of special episodes that will provide you will short ArtCurious Logo and sweet bonus content about the unexpected, the slightly odd, and the strangely wonderful in art history. A Little Curious will publish in our season's "off" weeks. Enjoy!

This week’s topic: The disastrous inspiration behind Munch's The Scream.

About the Author

Jennifer Dasal

Jennifer Dasal is a contemporary arts curator with nearly twenty years of art-historical studies and experience.

Tags

A&O Events Calendar

Features

Courtesy Lee Miller Archives

The Domesticity of Evil: Hitler’s Home in American Magazines Before and After the War

Collective house surrounded by sweet- potato leaves, Catrimani region

Who Speaks for the Yanomami? The ongoing Yanomami Struggle told through art

Matt Johnson, Untitled (Swan), 2016.

Public Art’s Major Role on a University Campus

View of Delft File:Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (1960-61)/ Mauritshuis, The Hague

Rijksmuseum Stages the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever

Lois Dodd, Two Red Drapes and Part of a White Sheet, 1981

Then and Now: Two Artists in Perspective

Webform

Subscribe for free art news updates

I agree to be emailed

Subscribe to our free e-letter!

Webform

I agree to be emailed

Latest News

Aerial view of the museum's campus, including a rendering of the new Gundlach Building, Great Lawn, and indoor Town Square covered by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann's Common Sky.

Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum Opens in June with Major Updates and Expansion

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is going…

jeff koons talking in a movie

Jeff Koons Reveals How Duchamp Influenced His Art

Jeff Koons discusses how Marcel Duchamp liberates artists from materiality,…

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Le Printemps, oil on canvas Estimate $250,000-350,000, Courtesy Christie’s

Masterpieces by Alma-Tadema, Moore, and Bouguereau to Headline Getty Collection Auction

Featuring exquisite …

Gerrit Dou, Sleeping Dog, 1650.

Creature Comfort: Animal Art in the Home

The term zoomorphism, when applied to art, can mean any object that uses…

Detail shot of a gold ear-stud: disc decorated with granulation, filigree and beaded wire. 530BC-500BC

Etruscan Jewelry and the Charm of Gold in Antiquity

Gold is perhaps the most iconic metal—an…

Drawing

Jordan Belson Brain Drawing, 1952 Ink on paper 7 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (19.8 x 19.8 cm) Estate of Jordan Belson, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

The Mystical Tradition: Drawings of Memory and Mystery at the Drawing Center

The History of Copying Art: A Learning Tool or a Cheat?

How Santa Claus Has Changed Throughout History

Black Artists

Nina Simone in 1965, Wikimedia Commons

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gains Support to Become a Historic Site

Hilton Als: The Pulitzer Winning Critic Discusses the Art of Curating

12 African American Artists You Should Know More About

Sculpture

Wangechi Mutu,The End of carrying All, 2015 (still). 3-channel animated video, color, sound, 10:45 min.

Wangechi Mutu’s Magically Intertwined World

Phyllida Barlow, Creator of "Non-Monumental" Sculpture, Dies at 78

Hellenistic Sculpture: Realist Art in Ancient Greece

Renaissance

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Red Hat, 1665-67, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Wikimedia Commons

Three New Theories on Vermeer, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh

The Dark Red Drama of Caravaggio

We Asked an AI What it Thought About Art. Here's What it Told Us

Women Artists

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1852–55. Oil on canvas. 96 1:4 x 199 1:2 in. (244.5 x 506.7 cm). The Met. Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887. 87.25.

Why Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" is a Masterpiece of Realism

Pop Art: 6 Artists Other than Andy Warhol

Female Photographers Who Shaped the Way We Look at the World

Museum

Aerial view of the museum's campus, including a rendering of the new Gundlach Building, Great Lawn, and indoor Town Square covered by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann's Common Sky.

Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum Opens in June with Major Updates and Expansion

Masterpieces by Alma-Tadema, Moore, and Bouguereau to Headline Getty Collection Auction

How Lucio Fontana's Slashed Canvases Changed Art History

Painting

Yayoi Kusama, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, 2023 (detail) © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro

3 Shows by Female Artists to See in NYC This Spring

Artist Amir H. Fallah's Mesmerizing Portraits

In George Condo’s Mind at the Morgan Library

Design

The entrance of the cemetery and the Famedio (at centre). Photo by Dani Vander Horst.

The Monumental Cemetery of Milan

Putting up Ancient Columns in Rome

New Excavations at Rome’s Colosseum

Auction

Monet painting detail

Monet and the First Forays into Abstraction

Cubist Portrait of Picasso’s Daughter Could Fetch Over $15 Million

Phillips 20th Century Evening Auction Brings in Record-Breaking Sales

Modern Art

LGDR, Rear View Installation Image

'Rear View': A Surprisingly Thoughtful Show on a Seemingly Humorous Subject

10 Surprising Facts about the Museum of Modern Art

Alexander Calder's Balancing Act in Art and Life

Indigenous Art

Benjamin West, The Battle of La Hogue, c. 1778. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

9 Indigenous Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram

What’s the Deal with Christopher Columbus Monuments?

Gallery

Bisa Butler, Genevieve Hanson for the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.

Bisa Butler: The World Is Yours

“People are Strange”: A Conversation with George Condo

As Gagosian Looks Ahead, Let’s Look Back

Fair

tefaf

TEFAF Maastrict Dazzles with Old Masters, Gemstones, and Everything in Between

What to See at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

Jill Bokor Speaks About the Upcoming Salon Art + Design Fair

Ancient Art

Detail shot of a gold ear-stud: disc decorated with granulation, filigree and beaded wire. 530BC-500BC

Etruscan Jewelry and the Charm of Gold in Antiquity

Aeneas’s Journey in Ancient Italy

The Cabinet of Curiosities & Colonialism

Antiques

Gerrit Dou, Sleeping Dog, 1650.

Creature Comfort: Animal Art in the Home

Wagner Science Museum: Step into 1855 with Contemporary Courses

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Contemporary Art

footprints in the snow make a geometric pattern by artist Simon Beck

The Art of Snow and Ice: Depictions Throughout Art History

Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

SCAD Unveils Promenade de Sculptures in Provence

Latin American Art

Melchor Pérez Holguín, Pietà (detail), Bolivia, c. 1720.

Why the LACMA’s “Archive of the World” Catalogue Matters

Neo-Concretism: the short-lived but influential art movement

Pre-Columbian Latin America: The Chavín of Ancient Peru

LGBTQ Artists

8 - self-portrait in the afternoon light, january 2019, puberty

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

6 Art World Events for Pride 2022

Photography

William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows exhibition at The Broad, Los Angeles, November 12, 2022 – April 9, 2023.

In Conversation with William Kentridge

Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

Photographing Vietnam: The First & Last Uncensored War

Asian Art

Radha and Hindu God Krishna Celebrating the Festival Holi (1800-1810). ink and color on paper.

Colors as Transgression in the Holi Festival

India's Statue of Unity is the World’s Tallest Statue, Here's Its Story

The Art of the Chinese New Year