Edvard Munch

i think the artists name is some weird spelling that sounds like monk. i dont remember the spelling though.

thats not a real illusion. if you look at it frame by frame, the clouds actually do move. please check out the authenticity of the pics before you post them.

It is pretty cool.

it was painted by Edvard Munch in 1893

the name of the artist is edward munch i think yay first comment

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

weird... why is everything moving (or seem to move...)? oh.. and i hate that flashing... i think i'm the first one...

Edvard Munch (possibly Edward) is the name of the Norwegian artist that painted this painting.

"The Scream" (Skrik) is of course painted by the norwegian artist Edvard Munch. A few years ago it was stolen from the Munch-museum i Oslo, but it has now returned (a bit damaged).

Author of this painting is Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist/symbolist painter born in 1863. The title of this painting is "The Scream", painted in 1893.

The original artist is Edvard Munch.

It was worth waiting, nice ilussion. The scream here is not a painting, it's a lithograph created from the original in order to ease its reproduction in printed media, it was created by Edvard Munch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

Edvard Munch is the original artist.

Great illusion.

It doesn't just seem to move, it's an animated gif. If you look at the individual slices there are 2 different positives and 2 different negatives, each slightly shifted.

Edvard Munch painted The Scream. :) I love impressionism.

My perception is very good, and I could tell the image actually IS moving, not just inverting. The illusion of movement is not an illusion, it's real. The "illusion" here is believing there is an illusion! :-P Go extract the frames of this GIF yourself! There are 4 of them :-)

Furthermore, just so people know, even if it were only two frames consisting of ONLY an inversion of color and there appeared to be movement.. there still very well may actually be movement (with CRT monitors). The screen literally distorts (enlarges/stretches) when going from black to white. Try flashing black and white fullscreen very quickly, you will notice the sides of your screen literally bulge out on the white frames.

:-)

That's pretty awesome! I like the face growing.........

i sent this in wheeey!
great to see something i sent in became optical illusion of the day :D
thanks!

That really is a great animation. It can be mind blowing how one little change can have a tremendous effect.

thats so cool! cant wait for the next illusion!

The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch.

Artist was called Edvard Munch

The painter's name is Edvard Munch and The Scream had been stole few years ago. I believed they found it recently, but it is n a very bad condition now. That's sad.

Anyway, the illusion is quite fun!

um....?

oh that is so cool...it looks like its actually moving.i love it. MaRs_KiD99

cool illusion!
the painting was by Edvard Munch

the painting is by edward munch...

Edvard Munch is the artist.

Really neat illusion i has to watch for awhile to make sure there wasn't something tricky goin on.

awesome!

the origin is from edward munch

freaky

it's by edward munch. (pronounced (moonch) not (munch)).

The Scream is by Edvard Munch

that is what i call a great illusion. i know that it is actually not moving, but it definitely looks like it.

The artist for 'The Scream' is edward munch. I think that's how you spell it.

Edvard Munch, right?
awesomeness

I found a picture of "The Scream" in my neurologists' office. The writing that went with it described how it feels to have chronic migraines.
Having chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia myself, I'd be the first to say the picture is a perfect description of the horrors of both syndromes.

Vurdlak, you HAVE to get us a new illusion soon! At least just ONE more so I don't have to look at this dizzying image on my widgets for 2 weeks!! I'm going to puke on my screen!

Seriously.

"The Scream" or "Skrik" is painted by Edvard Munch, Norway in 1893.

BTW nice illusion.

Was painted by Edvard Munch

One of the best illusions I have ever seen !!

seizures..

*twitch twitch*

Simply Amazing!!!

The artist is norwegian artist Edvard Munch

wow! i love what's been done to the painting... it's made it a really cool illusion. nice job! anyway, the scream was painted by Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch.

Edvard Munch 1863–1944!

i definitely find this just slightly disturbing. i love the painting, and already felt it was a perfect way to describe fear, despair, oppression, and the like. when you add the crazy color changes with inversion of colors, its just amplified. its hard on the eyes after a while. i do enjoy it however

btw artist = edward munch
and he was norwegian painted in 1893 in national gallery of oslo norway.

This is an illusion?? c'mon

Edvard Munch, I think

Please take this thing off the widget! It's making me scream each time I go to my dashboard!

Funk

Reminds me of some basic animation techniques. This is pretty cool. Thanks (as always) for posting all these really neat and often amazing works. You've become a daily trek!

Edward Munch is the artist.

ed munch is the original artist? cool pic.hi mom...

yeah the first comment:WOW

The artist is Edvard Munch from Norway.

It´s Edward Munch´s painting (Norwegian)

Great illusion!

The orginal artist is Edvard Munch ;)

His head looks like its gonna explode! FIRST COMMENT! BANG! I think his head did explode...

Thats awesome! Very spooky. :D

i think i'm going to be sick

hah cool the face growing is best bit. and the way the clouds flow and appear to be continuous. the fence bit looks a bit crap though.

The artists name is Edvard Munch,Norvegian, 1863 - 1944

lol. im fifteen and even i know it's by edvard munch. tchuh!^^

cool!

Hey,, this painting was made by norwegian painter Edward Munch around 1893, and is actually painted in two versions. Munch made the picture after a strange expererience he had during a walk, where he suddenly had the feeling of a terryfying scream from everything in the nature around him. One of the two versions was stolen some years ago, and suffered so much damage, that it could not be repaired.

I loved this image so much that I am going to use it on a post dedicated on fear and the jornalism lack of freedom in countries like Iran.

I have been enjoying your blog since I first found it and have just linked it.

Keep on the good work! :-)

The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch in 1893. I feel this way without coffee.

Were nice! Simple gif animation and s o dramatical effect.

That gave me a seizure

Edvard Munch is the artist, very cool!

Edvard Munch is the artist in question! Very cool illusion! Thanks

Scream (Skrik, 1893) is a seminal series of expressionist paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. It is said by some to symbolize the human species overwhelmed by an attack of existential angst.[1] The landscape in the background is Oslofjord, viewed from the hill of Ekeberg. The Norwegian word skrik is usually translated as "scream", but is cognate with the English shriek. Occasionally, the painting has been called The Cry.

A (66 x 83.5 cm) version of this piece appears in the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway (see gallery), and an oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard (measuring 91 x 73.5 cm) in the National Gallery of Norway (shown to right). A third version is also owned by the Munch Museum, and a fourth is owned by Norwegian billionaire Petter Olsen. Munch later also translated the picture into a lithograph (see gallery), so the image could be reproduced in reviews all over the world. Since 1994, two separate versions of Scream have been stolen by art thieves, but both were eventually recovered.
from wikipedia

The name of the original artist was Edvard Munch. Trippy!

The painters name is Edward Munch - German I think...

first comment

It's by Edvard Munch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

This is pretty cool. I actually have this print hanging in my house. The original artists'name is Edvard Munch *Last name pronounced Munk*

It is an expressionist paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

It was made by Edvard Munch

Ooooooooooo! That is ever so slightly hynotising. I can't look at it or else I watch it for ages. The original artist was Edvard Munch and I used to think it was a Van Gogh too. That is one seriously cool animation.

Salvador Dali is the artist :)

Cool!

It was painted by Edvard Munch.

the artist's name is edvard munch

Edvard Munch

It's by Edvard Munch. The painting was stolen a few years back, but they found it

I am assuming the web author knows the artist's name is Edward Munch (sometimes Edvard Munch); a Norwegian expressionist painter, I believe in the late 1800's. According to wikipedia the Scream was composed in 1893. This "illusion" is pretty cool, but I am curious as to the comment, "In fact it's just a simple composition of just a few frames..." Does anyone know exactly how many. I think my eye can discern three.

Edvard Munch was the original artist. Cool illusion!

The original is by Edward Munch, anyone should know that :-)

The name of the original artist is Edvard Munch

That illusion is going to drive me insane!!! ...I looked at it for 3 seconds and had more than enough. This one is a real nerve wrecker!

Edvard Munch is the artist, the painting was stolen a while ago, not sure if its been returned yet or not.

The mystery painter was Edvard Munch. Where is everybody? No comments in 2 days . . . . I guess everyone's on vacation, btw hope you're having an awesome time Vurdlak.

Edvard Munch.

Cool illusion! The name of the original artist is Edward Munch..

Edward munch

this is one of the best illusions yet! it has nice graphics too.

Awsome! Totally love it!

i like this one

but how come when i copy it to paint and invert them fast it doesnt look the same?

Heum, I think the author of the original paint is Edward Munch or something like that. Nice illusion thought!

This illsion is so weird, i could stare at it all day

I absolutely LOVE these illusions. Really cool!!

The best inverting illusion yet! ;3

so exactly how many frames are there?

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This painting was done my Edvard Munch. If you want to take a look at several drawings that mess with your eyes, check into MC Escher. For his painting, Waterfall (http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/waterfall.jpg), everything is shaded by using steppling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stippling). I find that totally mind boggling. I have just started in the past month or so viewing this site, so I dont know if you have posted any of his work in the past.

The painter's name is Edvard Munch. vurdlak, you're awesome! Nice name too.

had to read the caption before i realized the illusion. but it's great. :)

kinda creapy...

The painting is by a Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, made in 1893.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

It's kinda freaky. But very nice :)

Kinda freaky, but nice. :)

The picture was painted by Edvard Munch, a great Norwish artist!

The artists name is edvard munch... he was an expressionist artist. It is commonly seen as a visual response to agoraphobia... fear of wide open spaces.

The painter's name is Edward munch, he comes from Norway and has painted a lot of other pictures worthy of beeing seen....

so tight

The original painting is made by Edvard Munch

Okay, the artist who created 'The Scream' is named Edvard Munch. Secondly, the animation has four frames. It is not moving just from invertion alone. Watch the distant people if you don't believe me. And finally, this illusion is cool, rather, it would have been if I hadn't gone and spoiled it. :P
Yeah that's it. -Homfrog

aye, the artist is actually called Edvard Munch. Funny, i still seem to think it works better incolour although this makes it appear to 'move'.

Not is only inverting color, the picture is moving, there're 4 layers, 2 in white and 2 in black...
Not is an illusion

A very appropriate animation of the SCREAM by Norwegian pre-expressionist painter Edward Munch.

The artist is Edvard Munch (pronounced moonk) This is one of my favorites as well.