misunderstood

He later insisted he’d been misunderstood, saying in a letter to the Harvard community, “I deeply regret the impact of my comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully.”

Mr Nawat later apologised and claimed that some of his words were misunderstood - but a delegation of international executives were sent to take over running the competition.

“I will say I felt very misunderstood when I was younger and was more of the trouble child. Now I feel more like the peacemaker.”

The show aims to dispel myths and disclose secrets about Rousseau—a misunderstood, self-taught artist who, labeled naïve, was simultaneously celebrated and mocked by the Parisian avant-garde.

And there, for decades, the two remained -- isolated and misunderstood.