Recently, there have been reports on the network that, perhaps, the secret of perhaps the most mysterious picture has been unraveled. Scientists from Italy managed to find the remains, which may be Lisa del Giocondo. Against this background, it would be nice to find out interesting information about the most mysterious, and sometimes frankly mysterious paintings.
"Mona Lisa"
Actually, this canvas is worth special attention. The creation, written in the early 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci, raises many questions, but there are still no answers.
According to Guyet, the picture has such a power that can drive anyone crazy if you stare at it for a long time and intently.
And such rumors are absolutely not in vain, because researchers have been studying it for centuries and finding new mysteries.
Gioconda's hands become the subject of dissertations, and doctors manage to diagnose this woman:
- from theories that she has no teeth;
- to strange assumptions that she is in fact no woman, but a man.
One of the most interesting versions that Da Vinci painted himself.
Interestingly, fame came to this work of art only in 1911. Then, as you know, she was kidnapped by the Italian Vincenzo Perugio. And they found the criminal (think about it) by fingerprint.
As a result, the canvas became not only the first, in fact, a successful experience in fingerprinting, but also became a success in the painting market.
"Scream"
That Edvard Munch's most famous painting definitely has some sort of impact on the people who look at it is nothing new. This has been talked about for a long time, which cannot but frighten. But even this is not the strangest thing, the fact is that the picture is actually realism for its author.
As you know, Munch, when he wrote "The Scream", suffered from bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive psychosis). He once even told the story of creating an idea for his immortal masterpiece. According to the artist, he saw it.
One day, Munch was walking with friends along the path, just at the moment when the sun was setting. He said that in an instant, the sky changed color to a bright red, almost bloody.
The artist felt very tired and leaned on the fence, peering into the flames, the blood over the city and the bluish fjord. His friends moved on, but he could not move, trembled and felt a cry that permeated the surrounding nature.
"Black square"
Even for people, from art in general, and painting in particular, it is no secret that the "Black Square" is not black at all, and not square at all. Indeed, this figure is not a square, although the name suggests otherwise.
The proof is the catalog of the exhibition, in which the square is declared by the artist himself as a "quadrangle". As for the color, everything is simple here - when writing, Malevich did not use black paint.
Few people know that for the artist himself, this work was the best of all he created. At Malevich's funeral, the "Black Square" was placed in the head of the deceased, the body in the coffin was under a white veil, on which lay a patch, with the same black square.
And inside the coffin they painted the same image. And the hearse was decorated with it. In general, everything was organized in the same style.
"Guernica"
The canvas was invented by Picasso himself, dedicating the picture to the bombing in Guernica. The artist was summoned for interrogation by the Gestapo, where he was asked about Guernica, whether he did it. Picasso answered them in the negative, and even stated that they did it.
He wrote the canvas quickly, less than a month, but desperately created a masterpiece without being distracted, spending more than ten hours a day.
They call this picture an image of fascism, cruelty and horror. Those who saw "Guernica" say that they felt anxiety and even panic while watching it.
"Hands Resist Him"
Bill Stoneham painted the canvas in 1972. The fame of the work, frankly, is bad, which adds to its mystery and mysticism. Auction E-bay reports that shortly after purchase, it was found in the trash.
As soon as the picture was hung in the buyer's house, at night, the daughter ran to her parents in tears and stated that she saw children fighting.
Since that time, the picture has become even more overgrown with frightening stories. For example, Kim Smith, who acquired it in order to destroy it, could not do this, because he died. The newspapers have repeatedly said that ghosts have been seen in America that look just like those children.
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan
In the people, this picture has a slightly different name. Namely, "Ivan the Terrible kills his son."
Until today, it is impossible to answer the question with absolute certainty whether the king killed his offspring. For example, in the 60s, a study was carried out, during which the tombs of Grozny and his son were opened, after which it was established that the younger Ivan had been poisoned.
But only the same poison was found in Ivan the Terrible. And scientists concluded that they poisoned the royal family for decades.
Versions of Grozny's innocence in infanticide adhered to among many, so the chief prosecutor of the Synod of Pobedonostsev was sure that the tsar did not commit this.
He was so outraged by this work at one time that he even wrote to Emperor Alexander III that the picture cannot claim to be historical, at least it can be called fantastic.
It is important to understand that this talk about the murder came from the papal legate Antonio Possevino, and his stories cannot be called reliable and unbiased.
But the picture itself was really encroached upon: the canvas was cut with a knife, so much so that Repin had to rewrite Ivanov's faces again. The keeper, who did not save her, having learned about the brutal attack on the painting, threw himself under the train.
"Portrait of Lopukhina"
How can one talk about mystical creations and pass by Borovitsky's painting. He wrote the canvas at the end of the 18th century, and soon bad fame began to go about him.
Lopukhina herself poured oil into the flaring fire. She also passed away from the life of a genius shortly after the end of his work.
Rumors spread that the picture takes away youth and even takes lives. It is not clear who started saying such things. But all talk died down when Tretyakov bought it and hung it in his gallery.
It is important to know
These were the most striking examples of strange and mysterious paintings. Stories about them, at times, make the blood run cold. You can, of course, be skeptical about this, but sometimes it is possible to paraphrase a well-known expression: "If you peer at a frightening picture for a long time, it will begin to look at you."
There is a superstition that painting a portrait can bring misfortune to the model. In the history of Russian painting, there were several well-known paintings that have developed a mystical reputation.
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan November 16, 1581. Ilya Repin
Ilya Repin had a reputation as a "fatal painter": many of those whose portraits he painted died suddenly. Among them are Mussorgsky, Pisemsky, Pirogov, the Italian actor Mercy d'Argento and Fyodor Tyutchev.
The darkest picture of Repin is recognized as "Ivan the Terrible kills his son." An interesting fact: it is still unknown whether Ivan IV killed his son or whether this legend was really composed by the Vatican envoy Antonio Possevino.
The picture made a depressing impression on the visitors of the exhibition. Cases of hysteria were recorded, and in 1913 the icon painter Abram Balashov tore open the painting with a knife. He was later declared insane.
A strange coincidence: the artist Myasoedov, from whom Repin painted the image of the king, soon almost killed his son Ivan in a fit of anger, and the writer Vsevolod Garshin, who became sitter for Tsarevich Ivan, went mad and committed suicide.
"Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina". Vladimir Borovikovsky
Maria Lopukhina, descended from the Count Tolstoy family, became the artist's model at the age of 18, shortly after her own marriage. The amazingly beautiful girl was healthy and full of strength, but she died 5 years later. Years later, the poet Polonsky wrote "Borovikovsky saved her beauty ...".
There were rumors about the connection of the picture with the death of Lopukhina. An urban legend was born that one cannot look at a portrait for a long time - the sad fate of the "model" will suffer.
Some claimed that the girl's father, the master of the Masonic lodge, concluded the spirit of his daughter in the portrait.
After 80 years, the painting was acquired by Tretyakov, who was not afraid of the reputation of the portrait. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.
"Unknown". Ivan Kramskoy
The painting "Unknown" (1883) aroused great interest among the Petersburg public. But Tretyakov flatly refused to buy a painting for his collection. So, "The Stranger" began its journey through private collections. Soon strange things began to happen: the first owner was abandoned by his wife, the house of the second burned down, the third went bankrupt. All misfortunes were attributed to the fatal picture.
The artist himself did not escape trouble, shortly after painting the picture, two sons of Kramskoy died.
The paintings were sold abroad, where she continued to bring only misfortunes to the owners, until the canvas returned to Russia in 1925. When the portrait ended up in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, the misfortunes stopped.
"Troika". Vasily Perov
Perov could not find a sitter for the central boy for a long time, until he met a woman who was traveling through Moscow on a pilgrimage with her 12-year-old son Vasya. The artist managed to persuade the woman to let Vasily pose for the picture.
A few years later, Perov met this woman again. It turned out that a year after the painting, Vasenka died, and his mother came to the artist on purpose to buy the painting with the last money.
But the canvas has already been purchased and exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery. When the woman saw the Troika, she fell to her knees and began to pray. Touched, the artist painted a portrait of her son for the woman.
"Demon Defeated" Mikhail Vrubel
Vrubel's son, Savva, died suddenly shortly after the artist completed the portrait of the boy. The death of his son was a blow to Vrubel, so he concentrated on his last painting, Demon Defeated.
The desire to finish the canvas grew into an obsession. Vrubel continued to finish the picture even when it was sent to the exhibition.
Ignoring the visitors, the artist came to the gallery, took out brushes and continued to work. Worried relatives contacted the doctor, but it was too late - the tasca of the spinal cord brought Vrubel to the grave, despite the treatment.
"Mermaids". Ivan Kramskoy
Ivan Kramskoy decided to paint a picture based on the story by N.V. Gogol "May Night, or the Drowned Woman". At the first exhibition in the Association of the Wanderers, the painting was hung next to the pastoral "The Rooks Have Arrived" by Alexei Savrasov. On the very first night, the picture "Rooks" fell from the wall.
Soon Tretyakov bought both paintings, "Rooks Have Arrived" took a place in the office, and "Mermaids" were exhibited in the hall. From that moment on, the servants and household members of Tretyakov began to complain about the mournful singing that came from the hall at night.
Moreover, people began to notice that next to the picture they experience a breakdown.
The mysticism continued until the old nanny advised to remove the mermaids from the world to the far end of the hall. Tretyakov followed the advice, and the oddities stopped.
"On the Death of Alexander III". Ivan Aivazovsky
When the artist learned about the death of Emperor Alexander III, he was shocked and painted a picture without any order. As conceived by Aivazovsky, the painting was supposed to symbolize the triumph of life over death. But, having finished the picture, Aivazovsky hid it and did not show it to anyone. For the first time, the painting was put on public display only after 100 years.
The painting is divided into fragments, the canvas depicts a cross, the Peter and Paul Fortress and the figure of a woman in black.
The strange effect is that at a certain angle the female figure turns into a laughing man. Some see Nicholas II in this silhouette, while others see Pakhom Andreyushkin, one of those terrorists who failed to assassinate the emperor in 1887.
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Sometimes you can experience strong emotions or feel real fear just by looking at the picture. And this is understandable, because the artist puts a certain energy into his work. And the more talented the artist, the more power he can convey to his creation.
website collected just such "fatal" paintings that have a strong and inexplicable artistic power.
Isleworth Mona Lisa
90% of visitors to the Louvre come there just to look at the most mysterious painting in the world - the legendary Mona Lisa. Until now, there are many unsolved mysteries of the picture. In addition, it is known that it contributes to the occurrence of Stendhal's syndrome. This is a disorder in which a person perceives works of art very sharply: disorienting in space, people are literally transported inside the picture. What can be seen on the other side of the Gioconda is unknown, but the facts speak for themselves: she brought visitors to both aggression and suicide.
But few people know that there is another version of the Gioconda - Isleworth Mona Lisa, which probably belonged to the brush of the same Leonardo da Vinci and was written years earlier. Either she did represent the original painting, and the well-known version was written by Leonardo 20 years later in his studio. This canvas was found more than a century ago in a private collection, and now it is displayed in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Perhaps someday it is this picture that will help decipher all the secrets of the famous Gioconda.
post stagecoach
This painting was painted by the artist Laura P. from a photograph. Moreover, the author of the photograph, James Kidd, claims that he did not shoot any person standing to the left of the stagecoach. It suddenly arose in the process of developing a photograph (you can see the original photo).
The artist hung the completed work in the office, but she was asked to immediately take the canvas out of there. It was with the advent of the picture that a poltergeist started up in the room, and she herself always hung crookedly, despite the fact that she was corrected every time. Further history repeated itself in other houses that "sheltered" the picture. In the end, it had to be burned.
crying boy
There is a whole series of paintings of crying children by the Italian artist Bruno Amadio. These are portraits of 65 orphans that the artist sold to tourists after World War II.
The most famous painting in this series is The Crying Boy, which is officially recognized as cursed in several regions of England. According to legend, the author of the canvas lit a match in front of a posing boy to make him cry. Since then, reproductions of this painting have been involved in 50 fires throughout England.
Rain woman
The painting “Rain Woman”, painted by the Vinnitsa artist Svetlana Telets, also makes an extremely strange impression. The artist admits that she painted the picture in just 5 hours, and at the same time, it was as if someone was guiding her hand. All buyers of the canvas returned it back, complaining of insomnia, anxiety and the feeling that someone was constantly watching them.
Portrait of the Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez
If you're writing a ghost story, you should definitely visit the hotel."
Italian scientists say they have found remains that may belong to Lisa del Giocondo. Perhaps the mystery of the Mona Lisa will be revealed. In honor of this, we recall the most mysterious paintings in history.
1. Mona Lisa
The first thing that comes to mind when it comes to mysterious paintings, or mystery paintings, is the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503-1505. Gruyet wrote that this picture can drive anyone who, having seen enough of it, will start talking about it, crazy.
There are many "mysteries" in this work by da Vinci. Art historians write dissertations on the slope of the Mona Lisa's hand, medical specialists make diagnoses (from such that Mona Lisa has no front teeth to such that Mona Lisa is a man). There is even a version that Gioconda is a self-portrait of the artist.
By the way, the painting gained particular popularity only in 1911, when it was stolen by the Italian Vincenzo Perugio. Found him by fingerprint. So the Mona Lisa also became the first success of fingerprinting, and a huge success of art market marketing.
2. Black square
Everyone knows that the "Black Square" is not actually black, and not a square. It's really not a square. In the catalog for the exhibition, it was declared by Malevich as a "quadrangle". And really not black. The artist did not use black paint.
Less well known is that Malevich considered The Black Square to be his finest work. When the artist was buried, "Black Square" (1923) stood at the head of the coffin, Malevich's body was covered with a white canvas with a sewn square, a black square was also drawn on the lid of the coffin. Even the train and the back of the truck had black squares.
3. Scream
What is mysterious about the painting “The Scream” is not that it allegedly has a hard effect on people, forcing them to almost commit suicide, but that this painting is, in fact, realism for Edvard Munch, who at the time of writing this masterpiece suffered from manic depressive psychosis. He even recalled exactly how he saw what he wrote.
“I was walking along the path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red, I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned against the fence - I looked at the blood and flames over the bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went on, and I stood trembling with excitement, feeling the endless cry piercing nature.
4. Guernica
Picasso painted "Guernica" in 1937. The picture is dedicated to the bombardment of the city of Guernica. They say that when Picasso was summoned to the Gestapo in 1940 and asked about Guernica: “Did you do that?”, the artist replied: “No, you did it.”
Picasso painted a huge fresco for no longer than a month, working 10-12 hours a day. "Guernica" is considered a reflection of all the horror of fascism, inhuman cruelty. Those who have seen the picture with their own eyes claim that it generates anxiety and sometimes panic.
5. Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan
We all know the painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan", usually calling it "Ivan the Terrible kills his son."
Meanwhile, the murder of his heir by Ivan Vasilyevich is a very controversial fact. So, in 1963, the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and his son were opened in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Studies have made it possible to assert that Tsarevich John was poisoned.
The content of poison in his remains is many times higher than the permissible norm. Interestingly, the same poison was found in the bones of Ivan Vasilyevich. Scientists have concluded that the royal family had been the victim of poisoners for several decades.
Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son. This version was adhered to, for example, by the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Seeing the famous painting by Repin at the exhibition, he was outraged and wrote to Emperor Alexander III: “You can’t call the painting historical, since this moment is ... purely fantastic.” The version of the murder was based on the stories of the papal legate Antonio Possevino, who can hardly be called a disinterested person.
There was once a real attempt on the painting.
On January 16, 1913, the twenty-nine-year-old Old Believer icon painter Abram Balashov stabbed her three times with a knife, after which the faces of the Ivanovs depicted in the painting by Ilya Repin had to be painted virtually anew. After the incident, the then curator of the Tretyakov Gallery Khruslov, having learned about the vandalism, threw himself under the train.
6. Hands resist him
The picture of Bill Stoneham, written by him in 1972, became famous, frankly, not the best fame. According to information on E-bay, the painting was found in a landfill some time after the purchase. On the very first night, as the painting ended up in the house of the family that found it, the daughter ran to her parents in tears, complaining that "the children in the picture are fighting."
Since that time, the picture has a very bad reputation. Kim Smith, who bought it in 2000, constantly receives angry letters demanding that the painting be burned. Also, the newspapers wrote that ghosts sometimes appear in the hills of California, like two peas in a pod, like the children from the Stoneham painting.
7. Portrait of Lopukhina
Finally, the "bad picture" - a portrait of Lopukhina, painted by Vladimir Borovikovsky in 1797, after some time began to have a bad reputation. The portrait depicted Maria Lopukhina, who died shortly after the portrait was painted. People began to say that the picture "takes away youth" and even "reduces to the grave."
It is not known for certain who started such a rumor, but after Pavel Tretyakov "fearlessly" acquired a portrait for his gallery, talk about the "mystery of the picture" subsided.
The paintings of great artists can not only delight and give aesthetic pleasure, but also cause mystical awe and even fear. Many paintings of masters are fraught with mysteries. Our story is about them.
Talented paintings always evoke inner awe and admiration among art lovers. The canvases of the great masters fascinate and captivate, because beautiful paintings awaken the most intimate in the souls, something that often a person seeks to hide even from himself. Carl Jung called it the unconscious.
Therefore, paintings by famous artists are perceived as mysterious messages in which the secrets of the world are revealed. To solve them, you need to be as attentive as possible to the details and symbols of the paintings.
More than one generation of art critics will try to unravel the ciphers of Hieronymus Bosch, think about the code of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, and Botticelli, freeze in delight in front of the paintings of the Dutch. What can we say about the paintings of the era of modernism and postmodernism, where beauty, spirituality and precision of lines have given way to cultural symbols, interweaving of lines and cubic forms.
Paintings with the meaning of Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock and Salvador Dali reveal the tragic and mystical aspects of being a modern person. To read them, you need to have extensive knowledge and creative intuition.
We invite you to visit the virtual gallery and find out which famous paintings by artists are fraught with riddles or which dramatic stories are associated with:
The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
Many will notice that this masterpiece is not exactly a painting, but a fresco. However, a fresco is the same canvas, only made on wet plaster. They began to talk about the mystery of this picture back in the 19th century, when the minds of the aristocracy were captivated by various mystical teachings, Masonic lodges and various secret societies flourished in Europe. In the 21st century, interest in the fresco was revived thanks to Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code and the series Da Vinci's Demons.
Indeed, this creation of the greatest Renaissance artist contains many secret signs that form the subtext of the fresco. First of all, it should be noted that the artist worked on its creation for three years, until 1498 (Leonardo obviously did not write on damp ground - this is a reason to consider The Last Supper a painting, not a fresco). The composition was ordered by the Doge of Venice, Ludovico Sforza, a famous rake, mystic, merchant and intriguer.
The concepts of fidelity in family life were alien to Sforza, he was indefatigable in his passions, from which his pious wife, Duchess Beatrice d'Este, suffered. Despite the fact that she was one of the most beautiful women of the Renaissance, Ludovico cheated on her with amazing constancy with the best getters of Venice.
Only the death of Beatrice forced Sforza to rethink his priorities and stop looking for love pleasures. To perpetuate her memory, the Duke of Venice commissioned da Vinci's The Last Supper.
The first riddle of the canvas is connected with this background: the apostle John, sitting on the right hand of Christ, outwardly looks more like a woman than a man. Thus, the conjecture was born that this was Mary Magdalene, the wife of Jesus. It was also confirmed by the sign that the inclinations of these two characters create. It turns out a figure that resembles a combination of two triangles, which in mystical teachings meant the connection of the feminine and masculine principles as the basis of the universe.
The second riddle is the image of Judas. At the beginning of work on the painting, Leonardo very quickly found a sitter for the image of Jesus. They became a young singer from the church choir. His beauty and good looks struck the artist.
But for Judas, nature had to be searched for almost three years. Once, in a ditch, Leonardo saw a drunkard descending. He brought him to the refectory and in a matter of days wrote the antipode of Christ. After talking with the sitter, the artist learned that his life went downhill from the moment he posed for the image of Jesus da Vinci. Thus, Christ and the one who betrayed him are written off from one person with a difference of three years.
The third riddle is that there is a self-portrait of Leonardo in the painting. This is the Apostle Thaddeus, seated second from the right.
The fourth code is the repeated number three. Take a closer look at the canvas, all the characters are grouped in threes. This shows the symbolic cipher of the Holy Trinity - the Son, the Spirit and God.
The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo)
A 16th-century fresco by one of the famed Renaissance masters depicts God stretching out his hand to Adam. This is the fourth of the nine scenes of Genesis, which the author depicted in the Sistine Chapel. The painting depicts how God breathes soul into a newly created man.
Anatomists have established that the Creator's purple cloak, under which the angels are gathered, resembles the human brain in outline. Michelangelo, like all artists of that time, studied anatomy in detail, so he knew perfectly well what this organ looks like. But why did he depict him in a painting with a religious plot?
Art critics suggested that in this way the progressive artist and thinker pointed out that the force that moves and develops a person is the mind. In addition, there are a number of other nuances that you should pay attention to:
- The posture of Adam is symmetrical to the posture of God. However, the first man is relaxed, and only the divine mind is able to fill him with energy.
- Heroes, wrapped in the cloak of the Creator, create the outline of the human brain. Moreover, Michelangelo outlined the pituitary gland, the pons varolii (transmits impulses from the brain to the spinal cord), and the vertebral arteries with lines.
The painting is an eloquent message from a progressive humanist artist who believed in the power of the human mind.
"Flemish Proverbs" (Peter Brueghel the Elder)
The painting was created by a Dutch painter in the middle of the 16th century. At first glance, its plot is simple - an ordinary day on the market square. However, there are 112 separate compositional components on the canvas that embody popular phraseological turns.
Look closely at the image and see illustrations for idioms: bang your head against the wall; tie the devil to the pillow; hang a bell on a cat (an unreasonable act); speak with two mouths; fry herring for eggs, etc.
This picture is of great interest not only to art historians and culturologists, but also to philologists.
Danae (Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn)
The Dutch artist painted this picture for 11 years (1636–1647). At first glance, the canvas depicts the heroine of the ancient Greek myth Danae, who was hidden in the dungeon by her own father. The reason for this is the prophecy, according to which the king of Argos will fall at the hands of his grandson.
Rembrandt's Danae is a symbol of male impermanence. Studying the picture, art historians have established that Danae has a wedding ring on her ring finger, although, according to legend, she was an unmarried young lady when she was imprisoned. In addition, there was no golden rain in the picture, which Zeus shed to give birth to life in Danae.
The second point that confused the researchers is that the heroine's face did not look like Saskia van Uylenbürch, Rembrandt's young wife, who served as a model for all his paintings of the 1630s. This is all the more strange, since "Danae" was painted by the artist to decorate his own home. So who, instead of his wife, did he capture on the canvas?
The answer came in the 1950s, when art historians began to use x-rays to study paintings. It turned out that initially Danae was nevertheless written off from Saskia, and later the artist rewrote her image, giving the features of the nurse of his son Gertje Dirks. After Saskia's death, she became his mistress, cohabitant and new muse.
"Bedroom at Arly" (Vincent van Gogh)
Unable to withstand the persecution of the Parisian beau monde, Vincent van Gogh escapes from the capital of France. In the spring of 1888, he retires to a small outbuilding in Arly, bought with money from the inheritance. The artist has finally found his home and his own workshop. In Arly, he lived for some time in anticipation of another Parisian fugitive, Paul Gauguin. Together with him, Van Gogh wanted to create a brotherhood of artists.
The painting "Bedroom at Arly", or "Yellow Bedroom", is a documentary evidence of the painter's mental illness. According to it, psychiatrists can study changes in a person suffering from schizophrenia. Here are the signs to look out for:
- Saturated, and even intrusive yellow color. It looks unnatural in the interior of the bedroom. It's all about foxglove, with which Vincent van Gogh fought epileptic seizures. Regular use of this medicine leads to a change in color perception. People see the world in yellow-green color.
- The pairing of objects in the room: two chairs, two pillows, two portraits, a pair of engravings by Van Gogh. Thus, the author tried to find peace of mind, to cope with loneliness.
- Closed shutters are a symbol of the artist's inner isolation and a sense of security.
- The mirror on the wall was purchased by Van Gogh for self-portraits. People refused to pose for him because they did not perceive his paintings as art.
- The red blanket on the bed played a dramatic role in the life of the painter. During one of the attacks, he cut off his earlobe and, wrapping himself in this blanket, tried to overcome the fear that had seized him.
The picture is a reflection of the inner world of the artist. In Van Gogh's case, "Bedroom at Arly" is the story of his loneliness and madness.
"Scream" (Edvard Munch)
The Scream is one of the most mystical paintings of the 20th century. She embodied the premonition of a universal tragedy that gripped the artist during one of his walks. Munch saw a bloody sunset blazing in the sky, and inwardly heard the cry of nature's suffering. This is what he wanted to display on his canvas.
The hairless man, resembling a skeleton in outline, opens his mouth wide and closes his ears in horror - this is how the piercing howl of nature strikes him. The feeling experienced by the artist and displayed on the canvas became prophetic. "The Scream" has become a symbol of the twentieth century - a century of violence, wars, cruelty, hatred of man, and the torture of the environment.
A number of mystical stories are associated with the picture. So, all the owners of the "Scream" suffered misfortune - ruin, death, accidents. When the picture got to the museum, several workers showed negligence in working with it - they dropped the canvas. After a while, one committed suicide, and the other was burned in a car accident. These misfortunes were associated with the fatal action of the masterpiece.
Scientists are sure that, as in the case of Van Gogh, the painting is the embodiment of the mental disorder of its creator, Edvard Munch.
"Old Fisherman" (Tivadar Kostka Chontvari)
A pharmacist from Hungary, having seen a prophetic dream, sold the pharmacy, bought everything necessary for drawing, and went to learn the skill from Lebanese painters.
Upon returning to his homeland at the beginning of the 20th century, he presented an original work - the painting "The Old Fisherman". It seemed that there was nothing special about it: the public did not know what was so mysterious in this canvas. It's all about the subtext, which is not so easy to read. It was possible to solve it only after 50 years.
Chontwari painted strange and slightly frightening paintings, so they were not popular. As a result, he died in poverty, and his canvases ended up in the trash heap. Only a few paintings by the master have survived and ended up in the museum of the city of Pec. Among them was the "Old Fisherman".
One of the museum employees thought of using a mirror to reveal the subtext of the masterpiece. It turned out that if you divide the picture in half with a mirror, then two antagonist plots are formed: the first depicts God sailing in a boat on a calm sea, and the second depicts the devil in a raging sea. This is such a metaphor for the complexity of being created by a Hungarian artist.
This is only a small part of those famous paintings that cause mystical awe and worship. The creations of Mikhail Vrubel, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Kazemir Malevich evoke delight, horror and worship. They are solved, they are admired, it takes years to understand their content. Knowledge of the mysteries of the great canvases is a step towards the knowledge of man and the world.
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