By Lara Wildenberg
Publication Date: 2026-04-10 16:00:00
If you want to see The screamYou could buy a plane ticket to Oslo, book accommodation, reserve a ticket in advance and possibly queue outside the museum for entry before you feel the impact of the painting.
Or you could experience the artwork through an AI-created animation on social media.
An AI studio has created a video of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece to make art more accessible to Generation Z and Millennials.
The three-minute film zooms in on the painting, where the petrified figure walks around in the moments before he grabs his face in existential fear. Above the moving painting, a voice reads Munch’s haunting description of the walk that inspired him as the sky turned “blood red” and “flaming tongues” floated over the “blue-black fjord.”
The video is the first in a series for social media. Art awakensthat gives famous works of art movement, tone and context behind their creation.
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