It is the season for screams—haunted houses with spooks around each corner, Frankenweenie and Hotel Transylvania are haunting movie theaters, and Jack ‘O Lanterns perch on porches around the country. It all comes to a head on Wednesday when ghosts and ghouls of all sizes will hit the streets in a quest for masses of candy.

Perhaps the world’s most recognizable scream is the one by Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch. In May, The Scream became the most expensive piece of artwork sold at auction when an anonymous private buyer paid $120 million for it. Last week, on October 25, The Scream arrived at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) where it will be exhibited for six months. The ‘anonymous purchaser' of The Scream is unofficially Leon Black, billionaire financier, CEO of the private equity company Apollo Global Management, and one of the nation’s foremost art collectors.

Edvard Munch’s study of the international development of symbolism during this period of time (1890s) was a precursor to the explosion of the expressionism movement in the art world.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, expressionism is the “artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.”