The Scream, by Edvard Munch, 1910, Norwegian Expressionist painting, tempera and oil on unprimed cardboard. The Scream, by Edvard Munch, 1895, Norwegian Expressionist painting. The skull like human head has a single psychological dimension. The precursor of this image was a drawing of a man, Munch himself, on a similar bridge, in which he felt as if all nature were filled with one mighty unending shriek (BSLOC_2023_4_45)