{"id":185845,"date":"2021-02-22T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/edvard-munch-wrote-hidden-madman-message-on-the-scream\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T18:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:22:34","slug":"edvard-munch-wrote-hidden-madman-message-on-the-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/edvard-munch-wrote-hidden-madman-message-on-the-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"#Edvard Munch wrote hidden ‘madman’ message on ‘The Scream’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Edvard Munch wrote hidden ‘madman’ message on ‘The Scream’<\/strong>”
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This finding will make art lovers scream all over again. <\/p>\n

Edvard Munch\u2019s \u201cThe Scream\u201d \u2014 an 1893 expressionist painting so famous it has its own emoji \u2014 contains a disturbing hidden message that art historians have now determined was written by the artist himself. <\/p>\n

The pencil inscript<\/a>ion reads: \u201cCan only have been painted by a madman,\u201d infrared scans have shown. <\/p>\n

And though historians have long known about the phrase, small and hidden among the distorted brushstrokes that make up the howling figure, there\u2019s been some speculation that it was graffitied by an observer, not the Norwegian artist. <\/p>\n

But that mystery can now be put to bed, said Mai Britt Guleng, curator of old masters and modern paintings at Norway\u2019s National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which owns the painting. <\/p>\n

Guleng and her staff made the breakthrough discovery after comparing the handwriting in the inscription to the Norwegian artist\u2019s diaries and letters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe writing is without a doubt Munch\u2019s own,\u201d she told the BBC<\/a>. \u201cThe handwriting itself, as well as events that happened in 1895, when Munch showed the painting in Norway for the first time, all point in the same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mysterious origins of the phrase help complete a sad picture: Munch created the painting, which has now become a universal symbol for mortal anxiety, just after his sister Laura was committed to an asylum with bipolar disorder. <\/p>\n

Though the screaming figure doesn\u2019t look like him, it\u2019s believed to be influenced<\/a> by his own experience of observing a blood red sky after being abandoned by two companions, seen in the background. In that moment, he was hit by a \u201cgust of melancholy,\u201d according to his diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Munch unveiled the painting, reactions centered on his own mental health, rather than the painting itself. <\/p>\n

The experts said it stands to reason that Munch wrote the \u201cmadman\u201d inscription after struggling with the many critical reviews at the time. In 1908, he suffered a mental breakdown. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a combination of being ironic, but also showing his vulnerability,\u201d Guleng told the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cHe is actually taking this very seriously and he is hurt because there is a history of illness in his family, and he was very anxious, but he showed himself be marked by it.\u201d\n <\/div>\n

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“#Edvard Munch wrote hidden ‘madman’ message on ‘The Scream’” This finding will make art lovers scream all over again. Edvard Munch\u2019s \u201cThe Scream\u201d \u2014 an 1893 expressionist painting so famous it has its own emoji \u2014 contains a disturbing hidden message that art historians have now determined was written by the artist himself. The pencil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/scream-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94625,116,70989,75723,73313],"class_list":["post-185845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-22-21","tag-art","tag-mental-health","tag-norway","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}