![]() ![]() Olson's team suggest that Munch drew his inspiration for the sky in the painting from these volcanic twilights, and not from his own imagination. ![]() The ash clound affected sunsets for more than a year. The local newspaper in what is now Oslo reported that the phenomenon was widely seen, the astronomers said. They determined that debris thrown into the atmosphere by the great eruption on the island of Krakatoa, in modern Indonesia, created vivid red twilights in Europe from November 1883 to February 1884. They then suggested why the sky seemed to be aflame. Olson's team pinpointed the location in Norway where Munch and his friends were walking when the artist saw the blood-red sky depicted in the 1893 painting. They publish their findings in the February 2004 issue of the magazine Sky and Telescope to explain how a volcanic eruption half a world away influenced the Norwegian artist. physics and astronomy professor at Texas State University, and colleagues, were the first to analyse in detail what inspired the painting of modern angst. Volcanic El Niño theory erupts, Science Online, Īstronomers say a volcanic eruption that made the sky turn red was the inspiration for the lurid colours in Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream.ĭonald Olson, a U.S.Da Vinci, Monet used tricks new to science, Science Online,.A new island is born in the Pacific, Science Online,. ![]()
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