There's a Secret Message Written on The Scream

Añadido: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]For decades, [music] art historians puzzled over a small piece of Norwegian text penciled in the upper left corner of the Oslo version.

[00:00:07]"Can kun ver male often gal mand."

[00:00:10]Can only have been painted by a madman.

[00:00:15]For years, scholars assumed it was vandalism. Then, in 2021, infrared analysis confirmed what some had long suspected. [music] It was written by Munch himself.

[00:00:26]He had heard the critics calling him insane, and he replied right on the painting, quietly, in pencil, with a kind of defiant irony.

[00:00:35]Yes, only a madman. That's the point.