(CNN) – A small message posted on Edvard Munch’s famous painting “El Grito” (“The Scream”, in English) was written by the artist, following a new investigation of the work, finally resolving one of the most mysterious mysteries of the art modern.
The post “Only you can have it painted by a loco”, garbage and open visible in the superior painting of the painting, has the object of discussion for decades and it is created that it has an act of vandalism by a spectator.
For an extensive investigation carried out by the National Museum of Norway has revealed that Munch wrote the phrase himself.
The work of the expressionist master is one of the most famous of modern times, announced as a temporary representation of the human face. The subject’s angst rostro has been feeling confident that he has recently given up his own emoji.
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The curators use infrared technology to analyze the message, which aggregates the finished painting, compares it with the notes and maps of Munch and studies the events at the moment of the first public exhibition of the work.
“The writing is without a doubt Munch”, concludes Mai Britt Guleng, curator of the museum. “The writing itself, as well as the accounts that came in 1895, when Munch showed the painting in Norway for the first time, even in the same direction”.
The work is the object of an extensive conservation in the museum in front of a public exhibition. Rarely has it been exhibited since a robbery broke out in 2004, and the day after the piece was most evident in the last few years.
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After his first public presentation, some critics disapproved of the painter’s discontinuous painting and had a frenetic discussion about Munch’s mental state, giving credit to the idea that an indignant third party would be subjected to critical criticism of the work.
But the curators would say that this reaction is probably what provoked Munch to write, then the artist was molested by the critical response to the painting by the show in his native city of Kristiania (now Oslo) for the first time.
“In a night of discussion at the Students’ Association, where it was created that Munch was present, the young medical student Johan Scharffenberg questioned the mental health of Munch and stated that his paintings demonstrated that he was not established in his own right”, he said. museum. “It is probable that Munch aggregated the inscription in 1895, the few who responded to the criticisms about his work.”
Aggregate that Munch feels sorry for the accusation and refuses to read the annotations of his own diary.
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It is understood that “El Grito” was inspired in a way that Munch realized by the city while being found in a state of physical and mental maladaptation.
A pastel colored version of the painting is for sale at US $ 120 million for anonymous purchase on a Sotheby’s suburb in New York in 2012. At the moment there is a world record for a work of art made on a subast.