[CaptainCrunch]

I thought this was really interesting


https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...dman-1.5922732

t is a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch's 1893 masterpiece The Scream.
The painting, which shows a waif-like figure cradling its head in its hands with its mouth agape, has become a global icon for the expression of human anxiety.
The sentence — "can only have been painted by a madman" — was scribbled in the top left-hand corner.
A curator at the new National Museum of Norway said the writing was compared to the painter's own scribbling in diaries and letters.
"The writing is without a doubt Munch's own," curator Mai Britt Guleng said in a statement Monday.

It is likely that Munch added the inscription in 1895, or shortly after, in response to the judgment on his work," the statement read.
Munch was profoundly hurt by the accusations, returning to the incident again and again in letters and diary entries. Both his father and sister suffered bouts of depression, and Munch was finally hospitalized after a nervous breakdown in 1908, Guleng said.