The scariest picture in the world - mystical stories

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Today, it is believed that the scariest painting in the world is Bill Stoneham's "Hands Resist Him", which he painted in 1972 from his old childhood photo. On it, the five-year-old future artist is depicted with his sister near the house in which they then lived. At first glance, the scariest picture in the world is not so scary. Although, of course, the girl's face is somewhat embarrassing with the appearance of the mask. However, after the very first exhibition in an art gallery, strange and mystical reviews will fly to this canvas, which will later be called cursed.consciousness. John Marley, who ventured to acquire a painting with an extraordinary reputation, died shortly after the purchase, and the canvas was strangely found in a landfill. After that, the most terrible picture in the world changed owners several times more, who were in a hurry to get rid of it, as they felt its incomprehensible influence. Now it was not only about feeling unwell, but also about ghosts -a boy and a girl who seemed to have stepped off the canvas and walked around.

Later, the "cursed" canvas became one of the lots of the eBay online auction. The notoriety of the painting only increased the number of visitors wanting to look at it. Most of them noted that the reputation of Bill Stoneham's work is well-deserved - people who saw it, their he alth deteriorated sharply, their mood fell. This did not stop Kim Smith from purchasing it for his gallery. However, he soon hurried to get rid of this exhibit - he was tired of the constant complaints of visitors and offers to exorcise demons. The subsequent fate of the painting is still unknown.

The title of "the most terrible picture in the world" can "boast" and the work of Claude Monet "Water Lilies". Behind this canvas is a whole series of fires. In this case, the first happened in the house of the author himself immediately after he completed this work. However, the fire was quickly extinguished, and the mysterious painting was not damaged. She remained safe and sound even after a fire in an entertainment establishment in Montmartre, where she got from Monet's workshop. The cabaret burned down a month after its owners bought the ill-fated painting. The philanthropist Oscar Schmitz from Paris lived normally for a whole year after the purchase of the Water Lilies. However, after this time, like the previous owners of the picture, he burned out. The canvas (oh, miracle!) Again did not suffer. Now the New York Museum of Modern Art has become its owner. Four months later, a fire that broke out here severely damaged the "cursed" canvas.

There are other scary pictures of the world that have such a reputation that few people dare to purchase them. For example, "Venus with a Mirror", written by Diego Velazquez. The first owner of the painting, a prosperous Spanish merchant, went bankrupt shortly after acquiring the canvas. Having sold everything under the hammer, he also got rid of the Venus, which was bought by a we althy owner of port warehouses. Almost immediately, a big trouble also happened to him - a fire that turned his entire business into gunpowder. The painting was not damaged. She was bought by another rich Spaniard, who on the third day after that was stabbed to death during a robbery in his own house. Then the canvas wandered from one museum to another for a long time, until one mentally ill woman spoiled it with a knife. However, the list of "the most terrible paintings of artists" does not end with this work. Moreover, it is constantly updated with fresh copies. So, we are waiting for new mystical stories.