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Old 02-25-2021, 09:54 AM   #1
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I thought this was really interesting


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


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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.

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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.
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Old 02-25-2021, 11:55 AM   #2
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I didn't know this was a mystery - interesting. Thank you for sharing!
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This is cool because some of the people I collaborate with in the Norwegian project in which I am involved have done a lot of the multi-spectral imaging work on this.
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Found a picture of the inscription, from luxuo.com through a google search. It doesn't appear to be on the page right now, though.

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Found a picture of the inscription, from luxuo.com through a google search. It doesn't appear to be on the page right now, though.

Yeah, I was in a workshop on Monday, and the people at Colorlab showed us a whole collection of MSI they had taken and produced of the inscription. They were able to make the writing appear crystal clear—it was very impressive.
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Wasn’t it Billy and Stu?
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The pencil inscription is on the first painted version of the composition, there are also two pastel versions, one of which sold for over $110 million dollars in 2012. There is a second painted version, done in 1910 as well as several prints which were made by Munch himself from a lithograph stone.

This version, with the pencil writing, was stolen in 1994 at the opening of the Olympics, but recovered a few months later. The 1910 painting was stolen in 2004 but eventually recovered in 2006.

A pictographic representation of the screaming face with hands on cheeks was considered by the US department of energy for long-term radioactive waste storage facilities, where the waste is expected to remain dangerous far longer than English will remain in use, and other forms of communication are considered necessary to warn people in the future away from the area.


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The pencil inscription is on the first painted version of the composition, there are also two pastel versions, one of which sold for over $110 million dollars in 2012. There is a second painted version, done in 1910 as well as several prints which were made by Munch himself from a lithograph stone.

This version, with the pencil writing, was stolen in 1994 at the opening of the Olympics, but recovered a few months later. The 1910 painting was stolen in 2004 but eventually recovered in 2006.

A pictographic representation of the screaming face with hands on cheeks was considered by the US department of energy for long-term radioactive waste storage facilities, where the waste is expected to remain dangerous far longer than English will remain in use, and other forms of communication are considered necessary to warn people in the future away from the area.


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