In Munch's painting entitled Der Schrei der Natur (1893), a figure, while walking on a bridge, feels the cry of nature, a sound that is sensed internally rather than heard with the ears. The Scream is thought to be the ultimate embodiment of fear, angst, and alienation. It is also thought to symbolize humanity's existential panic expressed by ugly, even hideous, sounds of living beings undergoing both physical and emotional suffering in the modern age. As a motive, the so-called Ur-schrei is

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... ifested mainly, but not only, in expressionist literature, painting and music, in order to articulate the most intense human emotions. In this article, I will present and analyze aural and visual manifestations of the Scream in music and painting.