Why it matters
A crowd of pale, staring figures presses towards us on a bridge under a blood-red sky. Munch combined the setting of The Scream with the figures of Evening on Karl Johan.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1894.
- Munch first exhibited it as Red Clouds.
- In 1896 he made a lithograph and a woodcut of the motif.
Based on the Wikipedia article Anxiety (Munch) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
