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Another museum employee dropped the painting during the change of exposure. Shortly thereafter a terrible car accident happened to him. The visitor to the museum, who decided to imperceptibly touch the painting, he was burned alive in his own home a week later. The damn canvas has not spared even its own creator: Edvard Munch had a serious nervous breakdown,so he had to undergo an electric shock treatment. The artist died at the age of 81, leaving several thousand paintings, drawings, engravings and manuscripts in his hometown. But "Scream" has eclipsed them all.

What is the reason for the "Scream" hostility? Or maybe this is just a fatal confluence of circumstances? It is possible that at the time of painting his work, Munch had a powerful charge of negative energy, which was thus incorporated into the painting.

Scream", whose cost is estimated at 70 million dollars, has been repeatedly stolen from the museum, but every time the canvas is surprisingly back to its rightful place.

It was thanks to this painting that Edvard Munch became known to a large audience. It is a depressive job that has a depressing effect on any spectator and it can really punish.

The figure of the scream and the horror on his face suggest rather the agony of death, not nature.

The image in itself scares, but, alas, this is not his only curse. One of the museum's employees, in which the "Scream" is kept, he dropped the painting. Shortly thereafter, the unfortunate man began to suffer from severe headaches. The unbearable headache soon brought him to the "Scream".

"The Scream" by Edvant Munch

This painting hangs modestly without a frame in one of Vinnitsa's shops. "Woman of the Rain" - the most expensive of all jobs: it costs 500 dollars. According to the sellers, the painting had already been purchased three times and then returned. Customers explain that the woman appears in their dreams. And someone even says he knows this lady, but they do not remember where they saw it. And whoever has ever looked in his white eyes, always remembers the feeling of a rainy day, silence, anxiety and fear. Proceeding from the declarations of the previous owners, this image materializes the presence of someone in space, causes headache and depression.

"Rain woman"

MAQ/April 2018/42