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By Todd Stadler · Friday, December 12, 2003 1:02am
An astronomer has written an article explaining why the sky in Munch's "The Scream" is red: because the eruption of Krakatoa had caused unusually vivid sunsets at the time when Munch was inspired to create the painting.
I have yet to find any articles from physicists explaining why so much else in the painting appears so wavy (convection currents?), or from physicians explaining the strange shape of the screamer's head, or its curious lack of hair (positional plagiocephaly?).
But now that I know that everything in art can be explained scientifically, I look forward to finding out why the sky in van Gogh's "Starry Night" is so swirly, or why all the watches in Dali's "Persistence of Memory" seem to have melted.
Finally, art will make sense!