Edvard Munch ou le cri des nuages
One of the most spectacular paintings in the history of art is The Scream by Edvard Munch. What could be the background for this tormented face? Munch himself describes an episode when the “ sky suddenly turned bloody red … I felt as though a vast, endless scream passed through nature”. He talked a...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2020
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | One of the most spectacular paintings in the history of art is The Scream by Edvard Munch. What could be the background for this tormented face? Munch himself describes an episode when the “ sky suddenly turned bloody red … I felt as though a vast, endless scream passed through nature”. He talked about this to a painter colleague who later wrote “He yearns for the impossible and has despair as his religion … but advised him to paint it – And he painted his peculiar Scream”. In this article we describe an irregular, but often very spectacular cloud phenomenon, called nacreous clouds or mother-of-pearl clouds, occurring after sunset in the stratosphere 18 to 30 km above the earth’s surface near Polar Regions, and how this could have influenced the sensitive mind of a young man. We also find that an earlier hypothesis based on volcanic dust from the Krakatau eruption cannot be valid. |
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