By Vurdlak on August 6, 2007, with 207 Comments
Anyone recognizes the painting on the left? It is one of the most famous paintings called “The Scream“. When I was a young kid, I thought it was painted by Van Gogh, but I was terribly wrong. Do you know the name of the original artist? Well, I received this variation in my mailbox yesterday. It was sent by Joey Kuna including explanation: “I found this on one of my friend’s myspace and just thought it was cool the way it seems to move just from inverting color. It’s a small image but feel free to use it if you want.”
The animation gives you impression of clouds floating, faces growing and backgrounds changing – In fact it’s just a simple composition of just a few frames, and inverted colors. We’ve seen many similar illusions in the past on this site. I’m still on the island of Korcula, so please be patient in your wait for new illusions.
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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.
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?
….first comment
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.
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted “Skrig” (Scream) in 1893, and later in 3 different versions.
Links:
Web Museum
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Korcula, in Croatia? nice :) well i’m here for the first time, and the picture is… odd,hipnotizing
This is a very neat illusion
First comment!
The painter is from Norway amd his name is Edvard Munch. The painting was stolen few years ago, but is found again. Unfortunately the stupid thevees have destroyed the painting beyound repair.
That’s pretty neat. Haven’t seen an illusion like this before.
I normally really enjoy the daily optical illusions, but I really dislike this one…what an eye sore! Please change!!
cool
The artist who created the original for this animation was Edvard Munch.
Munch
Next time you leave an illusion up for a few days, can it not be something that could cause a seizure? I had to remove the gadget from my google because I couldn’t look at it anymore.
Awesome
Hello Vurdlak. The painter is Edward Munch from Norway.It was stolen from a museum in Oslo, Norway, about two years ago,but it returned a half year later. Great site!!!
first comment, neat!! I’ve been in and out of this site so often over the last while, it’s about time I posted. Fab pic, original by Edvard Munch.
the painting is from edward munch…
nice illusion thou :)
You are liars I got thes on MS paint and inverted it at the same speed and 0 happend.
The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch.
Hi.
Weird but cool!
The artist’s name was Edward Munch of Norway.
that’s cool :D
this is cool
The painter’s name is:
Edvard Munch
You can find interesting information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch
Yeah I’ve always loved this painting…it’s brilliant. The artist (I believe) is Edvard Munch. It was actually stolen back in the early 90′s and then just recently recovered…I think it’s in Europe somewhere now. :)
chao
Edvard Munch…my wife was an art major…
I really like this illusion. It’s very simple but it looks really cool….. and kind of creepy hehe
edvard munch
pretty cool effect btw
I like these type of animations, you can make them in CS3 or Barbosa gif. maker. oh and by the way…. FIRST POST W00T!
Please Please Please – no more flashing illusions! They give me a headache and I can’t even navigate to my homepage (Where your gadget is) without being hurt. Nice illusion, I just hate the flashing.
sorry there is not just a color invert to do this.if you open the gif in a application like imageready, you can see there is 4 frame (two with one color and two inverted) but each of two are a little differentthan the first. i’m sorry for my english or if you don’t understand what i’m saying.
but in the end the illusion of face growing, cloud moving… are excelent when you know what are the 4 original pictures.
Hi.
First of all congratulations for you page.
The artist who painted “The Scream” was Edvard Munch. Visit Wikipedia for more info.
Edvard Munch. Very cool!
The original painting is by Edvard Munch.
Edwin Munsch I believe, although my spelling may be horribly wrong…
bravo… ma Korcula je zakon!
RI baby :)
This is the “scream” by Edward Munk.
awesome invert animation. <3
the original artist’s name was edward munch. love this picture.
awesome!
his name was Edvard Munch
Cool how it’s moving but kinda freeky.
First Com!!!
awesome!!
Original painting is Edward Munch
The original artist is Edvard Munch. Yay art class.
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