{"id":5141,"date":"2021-03-24T20:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2021-03-24T20:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T03:14:43","slug":"painted-by-a-madman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5141","title":{"rendered":"Painted by a madman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mymodernmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The_Scream_by_Edvard_Munch_1893-1.jpg?resize=364%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"&quot;The Scream&quot; Edvard Munch Hidden Graffiti Found Under Infrared Light\" width=\"364\" height=\"452\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward Munch is most famous for his painting &#8216;The Scream&#8217;. He was a tortured soul by his own admission, and would struggle with alcoholism and mental illness later in life. He once wrote, \u201cIllness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.\u201d His most famous painting,\u00a0<em>The Scream<\/em>, has inspired countless depictions of pain\u2014including the famous\u00a0<em>Scream<\/em>\u00a0mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Etched into the paint of one of the most famous paintings in the world, a haunting eight-word sentence has been a mystery to art historians for over a century. The sentence reads, \u201cCan only have been painted by a madman.\u201d The mysterious statement\u2014clearly added sometime after the painting&#8217;s debut in 1893\u2014was long thought to be added either by a disgruntled onlooker or perhaps the artist himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mymodernmet.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edvard-Munch-The-Scream-IR-detail-National-Museum-Borre-Hostland-1.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Infrared Hidden Graffiti\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The century-old debate has finally been settled by modern technology. Using infrared photography to compare handwriting to Munch&#8217;s letters and journals, experts at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasjonalmuseet.no\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Museum of Norway<\/a>\u00a0claim the words are in fact the artist&#8217;s own. <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/grafitti-edvard-munch-the-scream\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/grafitti-edvard-munch-the-scream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the discovery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Munch is most famous for his painting &#8216;The Scream&#8217;. He was a tortured soul by his own admission, and would struggle with alcoholism and mental illness later in life. He once wrote, \u201cIllness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.\u201d His most famous painting,\u00a0The Scream, has inspired countless depictions of pain\u2014including the famous\u00a0Scream\u00a0mask. 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