Did You Know?

According to Edvard Munch, The Scream was inspired the day he was walking with his friends and saw that “the sky turned as red as blood” and that he heard an “enormous infinite scream of nature.” For years Munch’s inspiration was thought to be imagined until it was recently discovered that the probably was red on that day,  as a result of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia.The volcano’s impact was felt as far as New York where the sky was reported to be “crimsoned.” This same impact was felt in Munch’s town two days later with the town newspaper stating that “People believed it was a fire: but it was actually a red refraction in the hazy atmosphere after sunset.”