It turns out that Munch's 'scream' is losing color with breathing
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Norwegian painter Edvard Munch 's ' Cry ' is one of the masterpieces of Munch, with a striking portrait of a person's face and a bloody red sunset. It has long been pointed out that the color of this masterpiece 'screaming' is gradually deteriorating, and the latest research found that the answer was 'breathing.'
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'Cry' is a group of works produced from 1893 to 1910. This work portrays the hallucination that Munch saw, and the man holding his cheek in the center of the picture responds to the 'endless cry of nature' of a blue-black fjord and a blood-red sky. I am distorting my face.
The Munch Museum in Norway holds a pastel painting drawn in 1893 and a tempera painting drawn in 1910, among the multiple 'cry'. The 'cry' of the tempera painting is below.
It has long been pointed out that the 'cry' of this tempera painting is fading year by year. When the cause was investigated by a collaborative research team of the Munch Museum and the Italian National Research Council, it was found that the 'cry' of the tempera painting had lost its color due to the deterioration of the pigment.
According to the research team, the 'cry' of the tempera painting used a
Professor Cohen Iansen, a chemist at the University of Antwerp, said, 'When people breathe, they create moisture and chloride in the pigment, so it's often too close for the audience to be too close to the painting. There is no.'
by Parker Miles Blohm
The 'cry' of the tempera painting was stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004. And when it was discovered in Oslo city in 2006, part of the yellow pigment that had been painted was peeled off due to the adhesion of liquid. This case is also believed to be the cause of accelerating the deterioration of the 'cry' of tempera paintings.
Also, it was pointed out that there is a possibility of deterioration due to light, but the research team reported that 'the deterioration of the pigment due to light was almost nonexistent'. The Munch Museum, which is in the collection, is scheduled to be reopened after the renovation work is completed in 2020. The research team said, 'The cry of the tempera painting is managed in an environment that can be controlled at humidity lower than 50%, and it will be managed outside the general exhibition. Should be done.'
Professor Iansen said that Munk was using poor quality pigments, 'I think Munk did not intentionally use poor quality pigments, but the quality of the pigments that Munk bought happened to be bad. As of 1910, there were factories that chemically produced pigments, but they did not have the same level of quality control as they do today.'
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