So, first a warning! Whether it was a curse or self-hypnosis, people suffered from these pictures in one way or another
1. This picture was painted by Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people looking at this picture became ill, they fainted, began to cry, etc. It all began in 1972, when the picture was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph, where he was photographed at the age of five and found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time.
The painting was first shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then acquired by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the fun begins. The painting was found in a dump among a pile of rubbish. The family that found her brought home and on the first night a little four-year-old daughter ran into the parents' bedroom, shouting that the children in the picture were fighting. The next night, that the children in the painting were outside the door. The next night, the head of the family set the video camera to turn on the movement in the room where the picture was hanging. The camcorder worked several times.
The painting was put up for auction eBay. Soon, eBay administrators began receiving alarming letters with complaints of poor health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. There was a warning on eBay (as well as in this post), but people are known to be curious and many ignored the warning. The painting was sold for 1025 USD, the
starting price was 199 USD. The page with the painting has been visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. It was bought by Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just looking for something for his newly renovated art gallery on the Internet. When he came across Hands Resist Him, he thought at first that it was painted in the forties and would be perfect for him as an exhibit.
That would have been the end of the story, but letters were now coming to Smith's address. Many of them were, as before, with stories about the poor health after seeing the picture, but there were also those who wrote about the evil coming from it. Others demanded to simply burn it. He was even offered his services by Ed and
Lorraine Warren, known as the exorcists at the Amitville House in 1979. Some even recalled the famous murder of Satillo in the forested hills of California. The ghosts of the two children are said to haunt the house in the hills. Psychics said: “We saw a boy. He wore a light T-shirt and shorts. His sister was always in the shadows. He seemed to be protecting her. Their names were Tom and Laura and they are like two drops like the children depicted in the picture.
Once again, if you are impressionable or you have a weak psyche, I strongly advise against looking at the picture ("turn off" dull curiosity and "turn on" common sense !!!) Click to enlarge.
2. During the time of Pushkin's portrait of Mary Lopukhina was one of the main "horror stories". The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after painting the portrait she died of consumption. Her father Ivan Lopukhin was a famous mystic and master of the Masonic lodge. Therefore, rumors spread that
he had managed to lure the spirit of his deceased daughter into this portrait. And that if young girls look at the picture, they will soon die. According to the salon gossips, the portrait of Mary killed at least ten noblewomen for marriage …
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The end of the rumors was put by the patron of art Tretyakov, who in 1880 bought a portrait for his gallery. There was no great mortality among the visitors thereof. Conversations and died down. But the sediment
remained!
3. The impressionist Claude Monet painted a landscape with water lilies. When the artist and his friends were celebrating the end of work on the painting, a small fire broke out in the studio. The flame was quickly drenched in wine and did not attach any importance to it. And in vain …
Only a month the picture hung in a cabaret in Montmartre. And then one night the place burned down. But the "Lilies" were saved. The painting was bought by the Parisian philanthropist Oscar Schmitz. In a year
his house burned down. The fire started from the office, where the ill-fated canvas was hanging. It miraculously survived. Another victim of Monet's landscape was the New York Museum of Modern Art. The "Water Lilies" were brought here in 1958. Four months later, it did not flash like a child. And the damned picture was badly charred. Now NASA specialists are ready to restore it using space technology. Maybe not worth it, eh ?!
4. A masterpiece by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was stolen in broad daylight from a museum in Oslo. A very tidbit: the painting is worth $ 70 million! But something suggests that the villains are unlikely to have a chance to waste this money. After all, "Scream" takes revenge on those who offend him.
The museum tells how one worker accidentally dropped a painting. From that day on, he had a terrible headache. The pains got worse, and the guy committed suicide. And the visitor to the museum simply touched the "Scream" with his finger. And what do you think? In the evening, a fire broke out in his house, and the man was burnt alive …
5. The Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel Sr. wrote The Adoration of the Magi for two years. He "copied" the Virgin Mary from his cousin. She was a barren woman, for which she received constant punches from her husband. It was she, as simple medieval Dutchmen gossiped, "infected" the picture. Private collectors bought the Magi four times. And every time the same story was repeated: no children were born in a family for 10 - 12 years …
Finally, in 1637, the architect Jacob van Kampen bought the painting. By that time he already had three children, so the curse did not really scare him.
6. The artist and author of the painting "Crying Boy", the father of the child depicted on it, mocked his son, lighting matches in the face of the baby. The fact is that the boy was afraid of fire to death. And the man in this way tried to achieve the brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas. The boy was crying - the artist was painting. One day the baby shouted at his father: “Burn yourself!” A month later, the child died of pneumonia. A couple of weeks later, the charred body of the artist was found in his own house next to a painting of a crying boy that had survived the fire.
After a while, copies of the painting became very popular. Later, all copies of the painting were burned by the British. Further, fires took place in the houses where its copy was. There were so many fires that it was hardly a coincidence - everything burned down except for this picture …
A certain Miss Paint, who lives in Kilbourne, London, reported that she, her sister, mother and their friend all got burned after each had a copy. Dora Brand of Mitchum, Surrey, saw her house turn to ashes six weeks after she bought the painting, and although she had over a hundred others, this one survived.
Other reports came from Leeds, Nottingham, Ohfordshire and the Isle of Wight. On October 21st, Parillo Pizza Palace, in Great Yartmouth, Norfolk, was burned to embers, although the Boy remained in excellent condition.
After Yorkshire firefighter Peter Hall, in an interview with a major newspaper, reported that firefighters throughout England found many copies of this painting, which remained untouched by fire (the reason for which is not clear), the British began to burn copies of this painting, but whether the original was destroyed is unknown.
In 1985, when the Guy Fawkes Campfires were lit on the night of November 5, the Sun newspaper reported that thousands of Crying Boy reproductions were burned there, and several fire brigades refused to go to extinguish. What was it? How can a painting cause a fire that burns everything except the painting itself?
Mystics assume the phenomenon of a poltergeist or spirit that is contained in the picture. Why, then, do copies of a painting have the same effect? It can be assumed that this is directly related to the painting, or rather its image. Perhaps the drawing itself contained a key, and it was the image that caused the phenomenon, as a result of which almost everything except the painting itself was burned. Psychics and dowsing experts argue that all works of art retain some of the energy of their creators, this energy can be both positive and negative. But none of this explains the terrible phenomenon of British reproduction. According to psychics, paintings can only affect our mood and well-being, but not cause fires …
While most in Britain thought the whole story was a drawn-out joke, others were less sure. By November, some of the former owners of "Boy" had acquired nervous diseases, because all the time it seemed to them that the "spirit" of the picture they had destroyed now intends to take revenge. The Crying Boy phenomenon remained unexplained.
7. Probably the most famous bad picture of the Internet space with the following story: A certain schoolgirl (Japanese is often mentioned) painted this picture before opening her veins (throwing herself out of the window, eating pills, hanging herself, drowning herself in the bathroom). If you look at her for 5 minutes in a row, the girl will change (her eyes will turn red, her hair will turn black, fangs will appear). In fact, it is clear that the picture was clearly not drawn by hand, as many like to
say. Although how this picture appeared, no one gives clear answers.
8. Now it modestly hangs without a frame in one of the shops in Vinnitsa. The Rain Woman is the most expensive of all works: it costs $ 500. According to the sellers, the painting has already been bought three times and then returned. Clients explain that they dream about her. And someone even says that he knows this lady, but from where - he does not remember. And everyone who at least once looked into her white eyes will forever remember the feeling of a rainy day, silence, anxiety and fear. Where did the unusual painting come from, said its author - Vinnitsa artist Svetlana Talets. “In 1996 I graduated
Odessa Art University. Grekova, - Svetlana recalls. - And six months before the birth of "Woman" I always thought that someone was constantly watching me. I drove such thoughts away from myself, and then one day, by the way, it was not rainy at all, I sat in front of a blank canvas and thought what to draw. And suddenly I clearly saw the contours of a woman, her face, colors, shades. In an instant, I noticed all the details of the image. I wrote the main thing quickly - I managed it in five hours. It seemed that someone was driving my hand. And then I finished painting for another month."
Arriving in Vinnitsa, Svetlana exhibited the painting in a local art salon.
Art connoisseurs came up to her every now and then and shared the same thoughts that arose in her during her work. "It was interesting to observe," says the artist, "how subtly a thing can materialize a thought and inspire it to other people." Several years ago, the first
customer appeared. A lonely businesswoman walked the halls for a long time, looking closely. Having bought the "Woman", I hung it in my bedroom. Two weeks later, the night bell rang in Svetlana's apartment: “Please, take her away. I can not sleep. It seems that there is someone in the apartment besides me. I even took it off the wall, hid it behind the closet, but I can't do everything early."
Then a second buyer appeared. Then a young man bought the painting. And he also could not stand it for a long time. He brought it to the artist himself. And he didn't even take the money back. “I’m dreaming about it,” he complained. - Every night it appears and walks around me like a shadow. I'm starting to go crazy. I'm afraid of this picture!
The third buyer, having learned about the infamous "Woman", only dismissed it. He even said that the face of the sinister lady seemed sweet to him. And she will probably get along with him. Didn't get along.
“At first I didn’t notice how white her eyes were,” he recalled. - And then they started to appear everywhere. Headaches began, unreasonable worries. Do I need it ?!
So "Rain Woman" returned to the artist again. Rumors spread through the city that this picture was cursed. It can drive you crazy overnight. The artist herself is no longer happy that she wrote
such horror. However, Sveta is still optimistic:
- Each picture is born for a specific person. I believe that there will be someone for whom "Woman" was written. Someone is looking for her - just like she is looking for him.