The explosion from the Krakatau volcano in 1883 was so hard that it unleashed a 130 - infantry tsunami and turned the skies cherry-red for calendar month . But is it also responsible for this famous painting by Edvard Munch ?
Munch painted The Scream in 1893 , ten age after the volcano erupted in Indonesia . Researchers inSky & Telescopehave suggested that he was actually depicting the explosion , whichwould have been visible to himeven in Norway . In a Q&A today , USGS volcanologistCharles Mandevilleexplained just how the detonation could have created a sky not unlike the one Munch portray — and why it ’s not the only body of work of art that render the volcanic irruption :
https://gizmodo.com/ask-a-volcanologist-anything-you-want-to-know-about-vol-1529680767
The sky in The Scream could really be cause by ash in the stratosphere from the Krakatau 1883 outbreak because all right ash tend to scatter poor down in the mouth - violet wavelengths of lighting , and the persist spectrum getting through is predominate by longer wavelength ruddy to orange portions of the spectrum . There are also house painting by William Ashcroft in England during the drop of 1883 after the August 26 - 27th clap of Krakatau that show pictorial carmine sunset as a final result of ash injection to the stratosphere . As a matter of fact the 1883 eruption and eyewitness accounts of atmospherical phenomena following that eruption taught us quite a minute about stratospheric wind circulation radiation pattern . The ash tree from Kraktau circled the globe in about two week following the event , then distribute both magnetic north and south into both hemispheres .
look-alike : Edvard Munch ’s The Scream /Nasjonalmuseet
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