The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both
paintings and
pastels, by the
Expressionist artist
Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The German title Munch gave these works is (
The Scream of Nature). The works show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky.
Arthur Lubow has described
The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a
Mona Lisa for our time."