Imagine watching the camera footage that you filmed earlier hoping to see nothing, but you see a young boy and girl crawling out of a painting that you bought for your young child. This happened to families who owned “The Hands Resist Him” painting. This painting has caused many families sheer terror. This painting has received the nickname “The Ebay Haunted Painting” after being sold on Ebay in February of 2000. Many unusual reports have been made of the horrifying painting. “The Hands Resist Him” is still intriguing people to this day.
There are many interesting facts about the history of “ The Hands Resist Him” painting. The message that comes with the painting states, “Warning do not bid on this painting if you are susceptible
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to stress-related disease, or if you are to faint of heart or are unfamiliar with supernatural events”(Peters 3). This painting may or may not be possessed or have supernatural powers that could change your life (Bert 2). The painting is 24”x 30” and shows a young male in clad shorts and a blue t-shirt with a young doll-like female with a strange triangular object in her hands pointed toward the young boy. The children are standing in front of a window with dismembered arms reaching towards them (Peters 1).
The painting was originally displayed at the Feingarten Gallery in Beverly Hills, California in the early 1970’s (Chua 1). After the death of a famous actor , Marley, who first owned the painting, it was mysteriously found behind an old abandoned brewery
(Peters 2). An elderly Californian couple spotted the painting behind the brewery and decided to sell it on Ebay ( Resist 1). Many people have owned the painting and have had unusual experiences with
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it. Reports have surfaced from people who have owned or have seen “The Hands Resist Him” painting.
Many people have stated that sometimes the children in the painting would leave it and enter the room in which it was placed. A family purchased “The Hands Resist Him” painting from Ebay and experienced a strange occurrence. Their four and a half year old daughter made a complaint that the children in the painting were fighting and coming into her room at night. So her father set up a motion sensor camera in the child's room to reassure her that there was nothing to fear. However, they saw the young boy crawling out from the painting. Immediately, they put it back up for sale on Ebay with the caption, “When we received this painting we thought it was really good art. At the time we wondered a little why a seemingly perfectly fine painting would be discarded like that (today we don’t!!!)” (Alfonso 5). Another comment people make after viewing the painting is that they start to feel violently ill or black out (Ebay 1). Children are mostly affected by having very vivid dreams which cause them to wake up screaming in terror. Some small children take one look that the terrifying painting and run away screaming (Bert 1). Even adults feel like the dismembered arms are reaching through the painting and grabbing them. Others say they feel a blast of hot air as if someone has opened an oven (Jenkins 2). Some say they not only feel the hot air but also hear
a exorcist-type voice. Others say they feel their minds are being controlled (Alfonso 4), while others wonder what the painter thinks of all these strange reports. Bill Stoneham is the painter of “The Hand Resist Him” painting. When reporters asked Stoneham about the painting, he states, “The boy is based on myself at the age 5. The doorway is a representation of the dividing line between the waking world and the world of fantasy and impossibilities, while the doll-like female is a guide who escorts the boy through it. The triangular object in her hands represents alternate lives or possibilities”(Clarke 2). There is a big theory concerning the doll-like figure. Many think that this character threatened the male character with a gun that she was holding causing him to attempt to leave the painting (Clarke 1). Stoneham recalls that both Feingarten, the owner of the gallery in which the painting was first displayed, and Seldis, the art critic, who reviewed it, died within one year of coming into contact with it (Chua 1). News clippings show they died in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Marley died soon after in 1984, though it was said that he sold the painting before his death (Wax 1). The painting was purchased by Kim Smith for $1,025 and has been view over 30,000 times (Wax 1). “The Hands Resist Him” painting is still terrifying people today. This mysterious painting has had many unusual reports causing it to be nicknamed, “ The Ebay Haunted Painting”, after it was put up for sale in February of 2000. “The Hands Resist Him” painting still remains a mystery today. Would you be curious enough to view or even purchase “The Hands Resist Him” painting?
The double Portrait ( Happy Birthday, Dear Eshter) was created by Abraham Rattner in1974. It’s an oil paint on Masonite and the size of artwork is 29.5 x 28 in. This painting has two figures who are Rattner’s second wife, Eshter and Rattner himself. The scene is Rattner is painting the portrait of Eshter and Rattner, himself is half of the paining. Rattner is stadning foreground. He is holding paint pallet by left hand and he is facing sideway. Eshter is painted in the painting frame, thus she is a kind of slightly background position. This was a part of her birthday gift from Rattner. The year painted for this double portrait was their 25th wedding anniversary after they married in 1949 and he was 81 years old. He painted on Masonite which is made from a mixture of wood fibers that have been broken down and molded into a board using heat, pressure and the natural adhesion
Raul Ramirez is a very confident, creative student that is in Mr.Ward’s high school english class in The Bronx,New York, who loves to paint. Raul used to paint his sister by bribing her with whatever he could scunge up,but know his girlfriend just sits for him. He knows that painting will not give him much money and tells the readers by saying “People just don’t get it.Even if I never make a dime --which,by the way,ain’t gonna happen--I’d still have to paint.” Raul is also a very shy teenager that wants to be an artist and will be the first person in his family to be a painter if he becomes one. The thing is even though his “brothers” don’t support him--by laughing at him and saying he's loco-- he still wants to paint and says it by saying
Joseph Hirsch’s painting Daniel was painted in 1976-1977. In 1978 during the153rd Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, it won the First Benjamin Altman (Figure) prize. It measures 38 inches by 45 inches (96.52 cm x 114.3 cm) with a five inch gold wood frame surrounding it. The medium is oil on canvas. Everything within the painting is centered to draw your eyes to the action of the turned head and the pointed finger. According to the placard next to the painting this is a modern day version of the biblical story of Belshazzar’s Feast following the sacking of Jesualism from the Book of Daniel. From this point on, each figure within the painting will be addressed as Hirsch intended. The painting depicts a seated king, a dozing courtesan and Daniel. The three figures are the focal point of the composition. Hirsch uses a strong color palette to give the painting a luxurious and wealthy feel. Although the detail is not miniscule, the composition as a whole is easily understood. The use of oil paint allowed Hirsch to play with the composition as it was created.
First, the size of the painting drew me in before all. It measures at 339.1 by 199.5 cm, surrounded by a large golden frame. The size alone is enough to bring in any person passing by. Once getting close, the really wonder happened. The story told by the painting
The Torment of Saint Anthony (c. 1487-¬88), an oil and tempera on a panel, is believed to be the first painting by Michelangelo inspired by an engraving by Martin Schongauer (c. 1470-75) when Michelangelo was 12 or 13 years old (Vogel. 2009). It is one of the four surviving panel paintings by Michelangelo, who, according to one biographer, had spoken with disdain of oil painting in later life.
The very fact that the painting changes, places this story in the realm of the supernatural. In The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Hauntings by Theresa Chung, supernatural is defined as: "Any experience, occurrence, manifestation or object that is beyond the laws of nature and science and whose understanding may be said to lie with religion, magic or the mystical" (480). Af...
This exhibition features painting of strugglers of poverty are begging the rich for anything to spare, so that they will be able to survive another day. Each of these paintings is telling a story of the hardships people are facing in the world.
In existential thought it is often questioned who decides what is right and what is wrong. Our everyday beliefs based on the assumption that not everything we are told may be true. This questioning has given light to the subjective perspective. This means that there is a lack of a singular view that is entirely devoid of predetermined values. These predetermined values are instilled upon society by various sources such as family to the media. On a societal level this has given rise to the philosophy of social hype. The idea of hype lies in society as the valuation of something purely off someone or some group of people valuing it. Hype has become one of the main driving forces behind what society considers to be good art and how successful artists can become while being the main component that leads to a wide spread belief, followed by its integration into subjective views. Its presence in the art world propagates trends, fads, and limits what we find to be good art. Our subjective outlook on art is powered by society’s feedback upon itself. The art world, high and low, is exploited by this social construction. Even when objective critique is the goal subjective remnants can still seep through and influence an opinion. Subjective thought in the art world has been self perpetuated through regulated museums, idolization of the author, and general social construction because of hype.
From the very first page of "A portrait of the artist as a young man",
The website stated that, “The painter, etcher, lithographer, illustrator, and sculptor Jean-François Raffaelli was born on April 20, 1850 in Paris. Before Raffaelli dedicated himself to painting under Jean-Léon Gerome (1824 – 1904) in art class, he became an actor.”(Art directory) Back in the days not everybody could afford high class drink like absinthe, Even though they look fairly poor. The painting depicts some absinthe drinkers, men in frock coats and top hats are seated at a table. The upper left of the frame allows a view of the country side with the house clearly seen on top left. When i looked at the two chairs by the side it made me think if they were waiting for someone as they were not shown talking in the painting. He uses techniques to tell that that the house is built on a hill, the factors that tell the viewer is that both of the people sitting in the painting look serious like they are having a serious discussion or they are stressed about
It is almost hard to deny the existence and presence of spirits, good or evil, when studying art and literary theory. Do these spirits stand as an independent force completely separate from our imagination, or is ‘evil spirit’ simply a pseudonym given to the darker layers of the subconscious that some artists are not afraid to utilize in order to create shocking, however powerful images and statements? These images and ideas may be at times disquieting, yet they are still relatable since we as humans all have those dreary, somber places within ourselves. The reason that these might make us as the viewer feel uncomfortable is because not everyone is prepared to go down those dark and ominous hallways of our minds.
The first painting that I wish to discuss is Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette. This is of course done by Vincent Van Gogh. It is an oil painting done in 1886 and fyi is 32 X 24.5 cm. (who new they had the metric system even back then). This is one of Van Gogh's earlier woks. It is thought to have been done while he was at an art academy in Antwerp, Belgium. The painting is done with thick hard brush strokes. For the most part it is an achromatic painting. It does not seem to be to concerned with anatomical accuracy of the human skeleton. The image is however unmistakable a skeleton smoking a cigarette. I'm not sure what the intent or message of Mr. Van Gogh was, but a conection could easily be made between the antismoking ads of today. I prefer to ignore that conection. I chose to write about this piece solely on the subject matter. It is haunting and was right in line with my current mindset in Amsterdam.
Notwithstanding, it wasn't until the point that 1856 that spray painting was credited to being more than just markings and was additionally delegated chronicled documentation (Sheon, 1976). It was first seen that spray painting was simply writing and there was no point behind it. Individuals took it at confront esteem. After it was resolved that spray painting was something beyond markings, numerous history specialists began to investigate the more noteworthy significance behind these announced gems. Charles Baudelaire, examined the notable and expressive issues engaged with spray painting. He reached the conclusion that spray painting was not just about the craftsman or the piece but rather that it included the spectator and their contemplations and reaction to the picture (Sheon, 1976). This viewpoint found that spray painting does in certainty affect both craftsman and gathering of people, inferring that spray painting in all structures is made with basic intentions in a particular gathering of
When I saw Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring about five years ago at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., I felt something about the painting that I had never felt before when looking at artwork. I felt as if this girl, this young woman in the painting was real, hiding in the museum behind this canvas. She was in the flesh. Her skin was still dewy from three hundred-something years ago, the light across her face still glowing. She was in the round, her eyes followed mine, she was real. She was about to speak, she was in a moment of thought, she was in reflection. This girl was not crimson red or titanium white, she was flesh. Vermeer caught her, a butterfly in his hand. She was not just recorded on canvas, she was created on canvas. She was caught in a moment of stillness. Vermeer creates moments in his paintings. When viewing them, we step into a private, intimate setting, a story. Always, everything is quiet and calm. I realize now it is no wonder I had such a strong reaction to Vermeer the first time I saw him: he is a stillness seeker.
...rit of the dead, watches over her. Gauguin, in this painting, created a supernatural and fearful aura in this painting. Gauguin experimented with color to arouse deep emotion. Besides the upsetting color, the general composition of the painting is disturbing. The old woman in the background that is watching the girl is eerie.