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The work of art that could best visually represent 2020 concealed a hidden message that has just been decoded. The Norwegian National Museum has thus put an end to the mystery of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, which was first discovered in 1904.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If we zoom in on the expressionist painting, we can see a phrase inscribed<\/strong> in the upper left corner, which reads: “it could only have been painted by a madman”<\/strong>. For more than a century it was thought that the graffiti was the expression of a critic offended by Munch’s artistic “abnormality”. Well, it wasn’t him.<\/p>\n

A conservation project on The Scream has confirmed that Munch himself scribbled the phrase in pencil<\/strong> on his most iconic painting. Infrared scans of the first painted version of the work have matched its tiny letters to documents written by the Norwegian artist.<\/p>\n

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“The handwriting is undoubtedly that of Munch<\/strong>. The writing itself, as well as the events of 1895, when Munch first exhibited the painting in Norway, point in the same direction,” said Mai Britt Guleng<\/strong>, the museum’s curator.<\/p>\n

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To escape with other artistic episodes, follow this link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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