I was walking along a path with two friendsThe blood-red sky: People and art experts, art critics, have put in question, if such blood-red sky's really existed, when Munch painted "The Scream" series.
the sun was setting
I felt a breath of melancholy
Suddenly the sky turned blood-red
I stopped and leant against the railing,
deathly tired
looking out across flaming clouds that hung
like - blood and a sword over the
deep blue fjord and town
My friends walked on -
I stood there trembling with anxiety
And I felt a great, infinite scream pass
through nature.
Well, here is a sort of prove, that I can deliver you: A photograph from Norway, in ca. 1890:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3174174579/sizes/o/in/photostream/
[Kongen og Dronningen, Bispen, Norway]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes: Print shows the mountains King (Kongen), Queen (Dronningen) and Bishop (Bispen), in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Print no. 7178.
Forms part of: Landscape and marine views of Norway in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects: Norway--Bispen.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,
D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Edvard Munch: "The Scream", 1895
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