Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Courtney Pochin

People spot something amusing about The Scream painting - and it's hard to unsee

It's one of the most iconic paintings out there and is instantly recognisable... or so you would think.

We're talking of course about Edvard Munch's composition, The Scream, or Der Schrei der Natur, which features a figure, standing in front of a striking orange background, holding his head in his hands, screaming.

However it seems not everyone knows what the original really looks like.

A Reddit user shared a reimagined version of the artwork on the site and hilariously some people didn't even realise it wasn't the real painting - can you spot the difference?

The imitation on Reddit saw the figure's face changed to that of a dog.

It was captioned: "Newsflash 'The Scream' has always been a floppy eared spaniel."

Many people commented to say that they wouldn't be able to "unsee" the dog now and had never noticed before how similar to a spaniel the figure looked.

One person said: "I won't be able to unsee that."

Another wrote: "Can't unsee."

A third added that from now on they'd always see a "dang spaniel" when they looked at the piece of artwork.

The image has been parodied and reimagined a number of times - including in the Home Alone poster (Publicity Picture)
It also inspired the Scream mask (TMS)

Painted in 1893 by Munch, a Norwegian Expressionist, the image is said to have been inspired by a sunset walk, where the clouds turned "blood red".

The artist claims the sight caused him to sense "an infinite scream passing through nature".

The location in the painting is believed to be a fjord overlooking Oslo.

Munch created four versions of The Scream using crayon, pastels and a black and white lithograph.

The image has been parodided a number of times in pop culture, notably including the mask of the killer in the film Scream, the poster for the first Home Alone movie starring Macaulay Culkin and in cartoons such as The Simpsons.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.