The scream by Edvard Munch

I feel that the painting depicts strong emotions, the figure and the background express a sense of fear and despair.The painting is from the impressionist era and is a good representation of the fluidity of style during that time.The painting has had  many interpretations and has been used in a variety of forms to represent the modern age. it was most notably parodied by Macaulay Culkin in home alone