Scientist links famous `Scream' painting to devastating volcano.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | December 15, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: Alexandra Witze

DALLAS _ The greatest icon of modern angst may have been inspired by the greatest volcanic cataclysm ever witnessed.

Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted the blood-red skies of "The Scream" long after seeing a twilight tinged by the erupting Krakatau volcano, a Texas astronomer says. The anguish of the painting's central character may thus trace to a natural disaster that happened halfway around the world and a decade earlier.

Until now, art historians had seen the painting's lurid colors as an ordinary though intensely ...

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