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Tsagacity
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bdams19
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bdams19
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bdams19
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benevolence
Peru34 Posts
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sUng
Germany46 Posts
On December 03 2006 12:06 pyrogenetix wrote: i would say its the way all the horses have their hooves outstretched? thats kinda weird isnt it??? that is actually a mistake made by all the artists before there was photography. only after eadweard muybridge did his famous series of photos called "the horse in motion" people could see what a galloping horse really should look like. so the original was most likely painted before 1880. | ||
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gakkgakk
Norway902 Posts
This thing is freaking me out and I really want an answer to what this guy suffers from. Too bad if its a hoax. Or its just made to point out how easy it is to mess with peoples heads. Im kinda paranoid now. | ||
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Dametri
United States726 Posts
They point out that the horses appear to be half-submerged It does look somewhat like the children are drowning, and the "sleds" they're supposed to be riding on do look really odd.. Edit: gakkgakk beat me to it However, the answer in the link doesn't really say what phobia he has.. unless "mylittleworldmeltingdownaphobia" can be considered a phobia Or perhaps fear of Spring | ||
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Dantak
Czech Republic648 Posts
So maybe final quote “In this painting, we are Spring. You can see water, melting snow, in the lower left corner. The people are looking at us, afraid that their little world is about to melt down. They’re escaping from us, from Spring, in those sleds. It’s also why all the doors of all the houses are shut.” but on the other hand... I dont think this is really that student. Why there would be people standing outside of their houses and innocently doing something (like that children and snowman etc..) | ||
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[jOyO]
United States920 Posts
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BroOd
Austin10833 Posts
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z7-TranCe
Canada3158 Posts
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BalloonFight
United States2007 Posts
On December 03 2006 13:33 BroOd wrote: That's a cute explanation, but it certainly doesn't indicate the person is insane. Anyone could conceive such a situation. Agreed. Man I thought for sure it was a fear of avalanches, or a fear of drowning. Fear of Spring seems kind of like a bullshit excuse for a bullshit theory. | ||
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sweatpants
United States940 Posts
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Smurg
Australia3818 Posts
Thus I conclude he is insane and scared of the air suddenly folding up randomly in a perfect line and swallowing him up inside of it. p.s. This is actually quite awesome... | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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Sewi
Germany1697 Posts
I don´t think it´s a bad theory and maybe it´s true, but I wouldn´t run in the direction where the horses go to escape from "us". | ||
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LuMiX
China5757 Posts
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gakkgakk
Norway902 Posts
-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“. .. Ok so the person who painted this had a rare and severe mental disorder. The mental disorder is that he constantly sees his own fantasies around him. The artists phobia is the spring. He freaks out about the spring. Damnit. I was freaking out about this artist who were some kind of devil. Now its just a crazy guy who hallucinate spring all around him. I hope the "professor" gives a better answer than that. | ||
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Smurg
Australia3818 Posts
We'll combine all the clues: One more clue. Someone made this guess. The painting depicts the Maslenitsa (Shrovetide, the feast on the last day before the Lent — the Brazilian carnival is the same holiday). It’s one of the holidays with pagan roots, and the celebration involves burning a strawman — symbolising, if I remember correctly, the ending winter. Now, could it be that you’re the burning strawman? To which the professor allegedly replied, “not a strawman — but close”. Also, he said the keywords are water and air. (Now that I think of it — could it be painted from the perspective of a falling, and possibly melting, snowflake? Was the phobia a fear of falling?) * 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. Does anyone else think it would look like an eyeball? With all the 'objects' removed. The blue in the middle, the white curved around like an eye? But as for 'what could have preceded' this scene...I don't know...the horses coming around the bend? Children building the snowman in the distance? Skiiers skiing up...? Or does it mean preceding it by a long way? What would you hear inside the picture? Nothing if it was a real picture...but if it was a real scene unfolding...you'd hear the 'slicing' of the horses across the ice/snow...children laughing, that accordion playing perhaps...the crack of the whips, the grunts of the horses...the slight galloping noise. Also notice there aren't any shadows...but I don't think it's details like that, that count. It says look at the 'whole'. Figure out his phobia...? "not a strawman — but close" what is this meant to mean? It has something to do with air & water. | ||
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