A foreign painter painted a "ghost painting", which was sold and returned three times. What happened next?
Our Chinese paintings have had an ethereal and freehand style from the beginning, which can always bring a sense of tranquility to viewers and reflect a realm beyond human nature. Moreover, Chinese paintings are generally only Made with ink and contains no harmful chemicals. In terms of home feng shui, hanging a few Chinese paintings at home will not make people uncomfortable as long as they have no ominous connotations. Compared with Chinese painting, Western oil painting is more realistic. It uses various pigments to paint on the canvas. It often takes months to complete a painting. It cannot be done with a wave of a paper fan like Tang Bohu paid the wine bill.
"Girl in the Rain"
The complexity of oil painting makes it more deeply rooted in people's hearts, especially the figure paintings in oil painting do not seek detachment but seek analysis. This is also a difference between Western art and Chinese art. This path of analysis sometimes leads people into horror. This phenomenon occurs in paintings and music. The main human senses that can receive fear are hearing and vision. When a foreign painter paints a "ghost painting", it may not look strange at first sight, but if someone takes it back to his residence, it will produce some different emotions. .
A beautiful painter who is good at using psychology
The paintings of Ukrainian beautiful painter Svetlana Telets pursue more than just pleasing to the eye. Regardless of whether she paints scenes or figures, she likes to hide some psychological elements and use superficial beauty to lure people into a depressing and claustrophobic space. I don’t know if this is a manifestation of her own heart, or if it is a deliberate move to stand out. Paintings in this style of hers usually only give people a different feeling after looking at them for a long time, without any serious consequences. This has also kept her from being very famous. Until her painting "Girl in the Rain" came out in 2006, she suddenly became a world-famous female painter.
After "Lady in the Rain" was hung in the gallery, it was first bought by a single female boss. About half a month later, the female boss called Svetlana Telets and asked to return the painting. Svetlana Telets heard the crying and trembling voice of the female boss on the other end of the phone, and knew that the withdrawal of the painting must not be due to damage to the painting, but to another unusual reason. Sure enough, the female boss told Svetlana Telets that after she took the painting back and hung it in the bedroom, she could no longer sleep. As soon as the painting was hung there, she always felt that there was someone else besides herself. She often heard distinct footsteps in the bedroom and even heard knocking on the wall. She was almost broken now. Svetlana Telets had to come and take the painting away immediately. She no longer dared to touch the painting.
"Lady in the Rain" was hung in the bedroom
Svetlana Telets didn't pay much attention to the painting when she got it back. Her paintings were in this style. I bought her before No one who painted the painting asked to withdraw the painting. The female boss’s overreaction should only be due to personal reasons. So she continued to sell the paintings in the gallery, and soon they were bought by a young man. This time Svetlana Telets did not receive a call to withdraw the painting. But after a while, the man returned the painting to the gallery himself, and did not ask Svetlana Telets for a refund. He just told Svetlana Telets that the person in the painting kept entering his dreams. Here, it scares him.
Since there are no coincidences, there is something really wrong with this painting. Svetlana Telets decided not to sell the painting. After this strange incident spread, a middle-aged man approached Svetlana Telets and wanted to buy the painting. Svetlana Telets was unwilling at first, but the man said that he would prove to people that the painting was an ordinary oil painting, and that the previous strange phenomena were just a chance encounter with a suspicious person. Hearing this reason, Svetlana Telets also wanted to try again, so she sold the painting to this man.
Artwork
But the man was wrong, and he soon proved to Svetlana Telets that there was something wrong with the painting. He said that the girl in the painting had a pair of eyeless white eyes, staring at him everywhere, which made him have a headache and make him feel inexplicably emotional. Sold three times and returned three times, people wondered what made the painting so special, and local experts heard about it and stepped in to investigate.
The cause of the "ghost painting"
Svetlana Telets later said that she was inspired to create this painting. When she sat in front of the canvas, she looked like this girl It entered her brain, and she could clearly see the colors and the image of the girl. It took her a month to present everything she saw in her brain onto the canvas.
The upper eyelids in the scene of "Lady in the Rain"
Some people found that the paint on the upper eyelids of Lady in the Rain is very thick, and it will cast shadows under the influence of light at night, making the eyes look like opened. Some people speculate that there may be psychedelic drugs on the canvas of this painting. Under certain circumstances, psychedelic drugs will be emitted, causing people to hear and see hallucinations. It is suspected that someone was doing this on Svetlana Telets’ canvas. Hands and feet. In view of the fact that this painting is indeed harmful, it was later included in the world's banned paintings and can no longer be exhibited.