Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, in which a not fully-formed figure recoils in horror in front of a red-orange sky, is actually a motif that Munch returned to many times in his artistic career. It exists in numerous versions, most of which never leave Oslo. Sometimes called Norway’s Mona Lisa, The Scream is also a motif that is instantly recognisable, not least, in our digital world, as a base image for a variety of humorous memes and gifs. Munch’s best-known and emotionally-driven artworks, such as The Scream, are usually seen as situated somewhere between the artistic orientations of symbolism and the subjective world creation of…