Norwegian National Art Museum “Handwritten by a painter”
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The mystery surrounding a sentence in the Norwegian painter Edvar Munch’s masterpiece’The Scream’ has been solved.
According to the Associated Press and the BBC on the 22nd (local time), the sentence “can only be drawn by crazy people” is written in pencil in the upper left corner of the canvas of this work, completed in 1893. The font size is very small and blurry, so it is almost invisible. In the meantime, various speculations have been raised as to whether it was an act of vandalism that someone damaged the work, or whether Munch himself wrote it.
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However, the National Gallery of Norway said that this article, which had been speculated about the identity, was written by Munch himself. “The writing is undoubtedly Munch’s own,” said the art gallery curator, Mybrid Gouleng, adding that he compared the writing with the writing in Munch’s diary and letter. Guuleng said the writing was likely written in 1895, when Munch first exhibited the work. At the time, this work aroused public speculation about Munch’s state of mind. At a debate attended by Munch, a medical degree from Oriental Medicine raised questions about Munch’s mental health and argued that his work proved he was not healthy. The National Gallery of Norway said the sentence may have been added in 1895 or soon after Munch’s evaluation of his work.
/ Reporter Minhyuk Kim [email protected]
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