Why do you think the artist created the painting “The Scream”?

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The painting is created as it has a written message on top right which cannot be easily read by eyesight it has to be scanned then only can be read. The national museum of norway has confirmed — following years of speculation — that the almost-invisible sentence on edvard munch’s the...
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The painting is created as it has a written message on top right which cannot be easily read by eyesight it has to be scanned then only can be read. The national museum of norway has confirmed — following years of speculation — that the almost-invisible sentence on edvard munch’s the scream was written by the artist himself. the discovery was revealed following several infrared scans the 1893 painting has undergone in preparation for its installment in the new national museum of norway due to open in oslo in 2021.penned in pencil on the top left-hand corner of the painting, the inscription reads ‘can only have been painted by a madman.’ the inscription was added following the completion of the painting, adding to the mystery of it and leading curators to wonder if it was an act of vandalism or written by munch himself. infrared technology was used to analyze the handwriting and to compare it with munch’s notes and letters, as well as details surrounding the paint’s first public showing. following the extensive research, curators confirmed that it was indeed, munch’s writing. read less
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