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Painted by a madman? Edvard Munch s The Scream
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Even if you don’t know The Scream, you know The Scream. In the century since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch produced his most famous work, its mouth-gaping, head-clutching central image has become a universal shorthand for existential angst.
But this week, the solution to an enduring mystery surrounding the painting has prompted a reassessment of the artist’s relationship to his own work. A conservation project at the National Museum of Norway has revealed that a line of what was thought to be graffiti on the canvas of the earliest version of the painting was actually written by the artist himself. Infrared scanning has matched the tiny letters in “can only have been painted by a madman”, a phrase written in Norwegian that can just be glimpsed in the upper left corner of the Museum’s 1893 canvas, with surviving samples of Munch’s handwriting.