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1) C. ‘In nature’
on the frame of one work, he wrote: ‘I was walking along the road with two friends — shivering with anxiety… I felt the great scream in nature.’ the scream came not from the figure, rather the surroundings.
2) A. A mummy
MAny art historians believe the figure was inspired by a Peruvian mummy with a similar expression, thought to have been seen by Munch at the Musée d’ethnographie du trocadero in Paris in 1889. the Great Wave by Japanese artist Katsushika hokusai — a print of which is in the British Museum — is an emoji, too.
4) C. A Marvel superhero
the Scream-inspired Silence aliens in the sixth series of Doctor Who were ‘a terrifying race who invaded earth’ and ‘can kill using a deadly discharge from their hands’.
the director of the Scream films, Wes Craven, based the mask on Munch’s figure. he called the work ‘a classic reference to the pure horror of parts of the 20th century, or perhaps just human existence’.
Andy Warhol made a series of brightly coloured pop-art interpretations. thAt is what thieves wrote on a postcard before stealing the Scream from norway’s national museum in oslo in a 50-second heist in 1994. It was later recovered with help from Scotland yard.
6) False
A PASteL version of the Scream did become the most expensive artwork sold at auction when it went under the hammer for £74 million in 2012. But that record has since been broken by works by Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and Leonardo da Vinci.