Originally posted on December 12, 2006 @ 12:16 pm
Google does it again with a great tribute logo to Edvard Munch’s birthday (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) and his best-known painting “The Scream”:
Munch’s painting The Scream (1893; originally called Despair) is one of the pieces in a series titled The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death and melancholy.
As with many of his works, he painted several versions of it. One version was stolen in 1994 and another in 2004. Both versions have since been recovered.
To view more of Edvard Munch’s work, check out the The Munch Museum website.