{"id":11382,"date":"2021-05-11T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:16:19","slug":"the-secret-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/11\/the-secret-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Architectural Digest<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revealed: The Secret History Behind Edvard Munch\u2019s The Scream<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A previously unnoticed sentence etched in a top corner of the painting has scholars debating who wrote the words, and why they might\u2019ve done it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Nick Mafi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edvard Munch\u2019s\u00a0The Scream\u00a0was completed by the Norwegian artist in 1893. Photo: Getty Images\/Oli Scarff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are perhaps a handful of paintings so iconic, they\u2019ve come to represent images of our time: Van Gogh\u2019s\u00a0Starry Night<\/em>, Picasso\u2019s\u00a0Guernica<\/em>, da Vinci\u2019s\u00a0Mona Lisa<\/em>, and Munch\u2019s\u00a0The Scream<\/em>\u00a0are a few that come to mind. So well researched are these works, that nearly nothing new is left to explore with them; we visualize them in the same way as a can of Coca-Cola or McDonald\u2019s Golden Arches. But what happens when something new, something previously unnoticed grabs our attention? For\u00a0The Scream,<\/em>\u00a0Edvard Munch\u2019s best-known painting, a tiny inscription consisting of eight words, written in pencil, at the upper left corner of its frame is getting attention like never before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCould only have been painted by a madman\u201d: Eight words written in Norwegian have stirred a debate among scholars and art fans alike, raising the question, \u201cWho wrote these words?\u201d Some have argued it could only have been Munch who inscribed the ominous sentence, while others contend it must\u2019ve been the hand of a vandal who etched them onto the canvas. But it\u2019s not just who scribbled the words into the top of the painting, but why? Before concluding this, we must consider the artist in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Architectural Digest Revealed: The Secret History Behind Edvard Munch\u2019s The Scream A previously unnoticed sentence etched in a top corner of the painting has scholars debating who wrote the words, and why they might\u2019ve done it By\u00a0Nick Mafi Edvard Munch\u2019s\u00a0The Scream\u00a0was completed by the Norwegian artist in 1893. Photo: Getty Images\/Oli Scarff There are perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}