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This is driving me crazy. 
A Russian professor has posted a picture of a painting done by someone with a severe mental disorder. A single detail of the picture shows that they are insane, but in 15 years, only a single person has figured out what it is. Can you?
The person who posted a scan of this painting says the following:
* This was painted by a person with a rare and severe mental disorder. He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia (undisclosed).
* His (the poster’s) psychiatry professor showed this painting in a lecture, and said there was one tell-tale sign in it that showed the painter’s insanity.
* The professor didn’t say what that sign was, leaving the students to do the guesswork. The only clues he gave was, “don’t look for small details, look at the whole; if you figure out what the phobia was, you’ve got the answer; ask yourself what could have preceded this scene; think of what the place would look like with all the objects removed“.
* The professor said that during the 15 years of his teaching, only one student had figured it out.
http://www.digg.com/health/What_is_the_insane_secret_of_this_painting
http://duggmirror.com/health/What_is_the_insane_secret_of_this_painting/
EDIT: the painter could be a "she", and the person is real. Name is "A. Kuplin". "Transferred in 1990 from Moscow mental hospital."
Damn i just hope the professor's not making up stuff.
http://www.museum.ru/Primitiv/carde.asp?num=KO_0001
http://www.museum.ru/Outsider/cole_6_1.htm
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Spiders? I dunno?
But if it was arachnophobia, I don't see how that would make him crazy.. People can draw their fears and still be sane, like a way of dealing with it and so on.
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apparently based on this greeting card, but the professor didn't know. although similar, they give me 2 completely different feeling/vibe. One is dark and expressionless, the other lively and more festive...
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One of the horses in the front has a human head?
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there's a hundred dollar bill in the bushes and hitler in the window
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maybe the guy has low fps eyes and he gets motion blur so he sees 3 different images at different time frames. that's why he needs a new "processor"
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Without the horses and its rider the passengers look like they're standing on an open graveyard. Eerily reminds me of the holocaust events.
Maybe the phobia was a fear of death? Or even claustrophobia but the former seems more likely to me.
Edit: The middle one looks like there's a tongue of flame coming out of the grave. Symbols of hell? Fear of the afterlife maybe?
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Almost everything is in threes. OCD?
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Braavos36402 Posts
mayB it is the fear of teh sn0w
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Staring at the painting is starting to creep me out....its like the longer we look, the more insane we are becoming. The faces are starting to look like theyre observing at me.
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I like this theory from that link:
It's a frozen pond.
The shore is on the right where the 2 skiers are standing. You can see the difference in texture. The ice seems hard with maybe a thin dusting of snow whereas the land has 'softer' , deeper snow accumulation on it.
To the back right of the center house there is a blue patch: this is thin ice. You could go for a stretch and say the fencing in front of it was there to warn of thin ice as is customary, but the fence is in the original painting as well.
The child "dressed" in blue on the middle sled fell through the ice, is frozen and/or sad (both conditions are associated with the color blue).
The horses may be in haste to get the child to the hospital and/or get off the unstable ice. After all, the festival is at the end of winter, usually when ice starts melting. Notice the large C shaped hoof tracks on the far left are rippling out from the thin ice area in the center like waves from something breaking the surface tension. Also notice, that you can overlay a Fibonacci spiral on the hoof tracks with the center of the spiral ending roughly near the blue patch in the center.
"What would you hear if you were in the painting?" -- horse hooves on ice sounds different than horse hooves on snow.
Everything else (except the Fibonacci windows) is just the artist's general attempt to reproduce the original.
Diagnosis: The artist has in the past experienced or is afraid of falling through the ice, getting sucked into a whirlpool and spiraling down into the depths of the water.
dinophobia: Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
hydrophobia/aquaphobia: Fear of water/drowning.
What do you guys think of this one?
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omg its a graveyard
well those sleds look like graves if u remove the horses
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I dunno what the phobia is, but if you remove all the objects in the painting, the landscape on the right hand side appears to be in the shape of the genetal region of a (wo)man. If the tree stays it's a man with an erect penis, if the tree goes it's a woman. If you can pay attention to the forground, the horses almost look like spiders.... maybe even a centipede.
Beats me... is it one of those tests like the rorschach test? What I "read" into the painting are my own freudian hang-ups?
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On December 02 2006 23:03 Abang_Zealot wrote:
Without the horses and its rider the passengers look like they're standing on an open graveyard. Eerily reminds me of the holocaust events.
Maybe the phobia was a fear of death? Or even claustrophobia but the former seems more likely to me.
Edit: The middle one looks like there's a tongue of flame coming out of the grave. Symbols of hell? Fear of the afterlife maybe?
also the horses could be symbolic of that guy who takes people to the afterlife dunt remember his name but i know he was in The Mummy.
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the insane part is that horses are leading the sleigh instead of dogs
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It's painted on a canvas of human skin
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
On December 02 2006 23:03 Abang_Zealot wrote:
Without the horses and its rider the passengers look like they're standing on an open graveyard. Eerily reminds me of the holocaust events.
Maybe the phobia was a fear of death? Or even claustrophobia but the former seems more likely to me.
Edit: The middle one looks like there's a tongue of flame coming out of the grave. Symbols of hell? Fear of the afterlife maybe?
i think this too, the kids standing in open graves really freaks me out
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Nitram might be right, the lights look like rows of gravestones and the sleds are freshly dug graves. I have no idea though, this is hard T_T.
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