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Edvard Munch wrote hidden ‘madman’ message on ‘The Scream’

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the BBC. “The handwriting itself, as well as events that happened in 1895, when Munch showed the painting in Norway for the first time, all point in the same direction.”The mysterious origins of the phrase help complete a sad picture: Munch created the painting, which has now become a universal symbol for mortal anxiety, just after his sister Laura was committed to an asylum with bipolar disorder.

Though the screaming figure doesn’t look like him, it’s believed to be influenced by his own experience of observing a blood red sky after being abandoned by two companions, seen in the background.

In that moment, he was hit by a “gust of melancholy,” according to his diary.After Munch unveiled the painting, reactions centered on his own mental.

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