Painted by a madman? Edvard Munch s The Scream
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Even if you don’t know The Scream, you know The Scream. In the century since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch produced his most famous work, its mouth-gaping, head-clutching central image has become a universal shorthand for existential angst.
But this week, the solution to an enduring mystery surrounding the painting has prompted a reassessment of the artist’s relationship to his own work. A conservation project at the National Museum of Norway has revealed that a line of what was thought to be graffiti on the canvas of the earliest version of the painting was actually written by the artist himself. Infrared scanning has matched the tiny letters in “can only have been painted by a madman”, a phrase written in Norwegian that can just be glimpsed in the upper left corner of the Museum’s 1893 canvas, with surviving samples of Munch’s handwriting.
Famous Artworks That Have Been Stolen More Than Once
By Francesca Coppola/Feb. 16, 2021 12:46 am EDT
Art heists are fascinating. Sophisticated thieves, shady buyers, orchestrated burglaries, and the mysterious intrigues of the underworld keep captivating people s imagination. Stealing art isn t a new thing. According to the Guardian, the first recorded art crime was carried out in 1473 by Polish pirates who kidnapped a triptych from a church in Florence and took it to the city of Gdansk, where it still is today.
Yet for some reason there are legendary artworks that have been stolen several times. But when it is notoriously difficult to sell on well-known works even on the black market, who would risk repeatedly targeting such paintings and why? asks journalist Riah Pryor at the Art Newspaper
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Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
1963 The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles.
In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over town. An Edgewood HS girl entices the Verona boy she’s dating and four of his friends into an ambush at Peppermint Park, the carnival area on the far west side, where they are severely beaten with clubs and rubber hoses by a gang of 16 led by her other boyfriend, from Madison West. Police thwart a rematch rumble, set for a Verona gravel pit, after getting an anonymous tip. Days later, another two-timing teen is the focus as eleven students from East, La Follette, and Monona Grove High Schools battle with fists, clubs, and switchblades in the 2400 block of East W