Not all artists prefer to depict portraits and landscapes. Some people want to convey in their images a certain mystery, mysticism, and a sense of fear. For example, the most terrible picture in the world, which brings endless horror to all Internet users, was photographed from the famous canvas called “Hands Resist Him.” This truly creepy painting created such a stir around itself that many were afraid to even look at it through the monitor screen, thinking that it was cursed. They say that the artist poured into the picture all his dark sides of his soul and his most terrible nightmares. However, more details about everything in our interesting article.
"The hands resist him." Fiction or real curse?
This creepy painting was painted in 1972 by the famous It depicts a girl resembling a doll and a boy, approximately 5 years old. Children stand against the backdrop of a glass door, on which a huge number of small palms can be seen.
The most terrible picture in the world was copied from a childhood photograph of the artist. Stoneham portrayed himself at age 5 and a little neighbor girl.
What did the artist want to say?
According to Stoneham, the door means nothing more than a wall between the world of the living and the parallel world of dreams. The boy on the canvas is depicted as angry and dissatisfied. And this is no wonder, because he really wants to open the door and see what is outside the real world. But the children's hands resist this, blocking the boy's path. The doll standing nearby is emotionless and empty. She doesn’t see or hear anything, but she is the only one who in this case can help the boy enter the world of dreams.
What creepy stories are associated with the picture?
The first owner of “Hands Resist Him” was the famous American actor John Marley. After some time, the man died. No one still knows whether the ill-fated painting is really to blame for his death. The same thing happened with other owners of the mystical canvas. The young family who once owned this terrible picture told about the terrible things that happened in their house. They found the canvas in a landfill along with another pile. Delighted, the head of the family took it into the house and placed it in the most visible place. At night, their little daughter burst into her parents’ bedroom screaming that some children were quarreling in her room. The next day, the girl again reported that the image in the painting had changed somewhat - the children were outside the glass door. After this, the father decided to get rid of the “cursed” creation.
In 2000, an image of the canvas appeared on an online auction. Administrators warned Internet users that this was the most terrible picture in the world, because it was photographed from an analogue of the cursed canvas “Hands Resist Him,” which has already brought grief to many people. However, many looked closely at the image, showing their immense curiosity. And after some time, letters began to arrive at the administrator’s email address, indicating that after viewing the “ill-fated” image, many began to feel dizzy.
Despite the terrible letters, the most terrible painting was still sold. Its owner was a brave art gallery owner named Kim Smith. After some time, letters also began to arrive at his address, saying that this was the most terrible picture. Smith was even offered the services of famous psychics who promised to exorcise demons from this terrible canvas. To date, the fate of the painting is unknown.
"Crying Boy"
The painting “The Crying Boy” was painted by Giovanni Bragolina. Many people viewing the image on the Internet claim that it is the scariest picture of the planet they have ever seen.
There are several versions of this painting. The first says that the artist had a little son of 4 years of age. The boy was very afraid of fire and everything connected with it. Rumor has it that Giovanni deliberately lit a match and brought it to the baby’s face in order to more believably capture all his anger and fear. Rumor has it that because of this, the baby hated his cruel father so much that he wished with all his heart that he would burn. After some time, the boy died of pneumonia, and later a fire suddenly broke out in his father’s workshop. The fire burned everything in its path. Only the canvas remained untouched. It is no wonder that “The Crying Boy” is the most terrible picture in the world, the sight of which makes many people’s hearts tremble.
Later, an unexpected series of fires occurred throughout England, in which people died. No matter how strange it may sound, in all the rooms there were works by Giovanni, which remained absolutely untouched. People decided that the ghost of the offended boy, who had moved into the canvas, decided to take revenge on the whole world. It is known that the most terrible picture in the world still haunts the subconscious of many. The fear that is reflected in the eyes of a small, innocent boy will never be forgotten. The original "Crying Boy" has never been found.
"Red Dragon" by William Blake
One of the most controversial artists and poets painted this painting, receiving inspiration from the Book of Revelations. In the painting, William depicted the devil himself, who appeared to him in his dreams.
The author managed to portray the king of darkness quite believably. Many at that time did not even have any doubts about the fact that the artist could really meet with the devil himself in his dreams.
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch
As the artist himself wrote in his personal diary, he depicted in his painting the feelings that he once experienced. "Scream" is undoubtedly on the list of "Scariest Pictures." The art gallery that houses this eerie painting is located in the city of Oslo (Norway) and is called the National Gallery.
Many scientists are of the opinion that Munch was a mentally unbalanced person, because only a person with serious diseases of the nervous system can portray such a thing. The author created paintings of the same theme, which, as he himself claimed, tormented him for many years.
Many believe that the scariest picture in the world is the prototype of “Scream”. Few people know that the original of this famous painting caused many deaths. The owners of this terrible painting allegedly suffered serious illnesses or became victims of terrible disasters.
"Venus with a Mirror". Diego Velasquez
There are other most terrible paintings and pictures, for example “Venus with a Mirror”, written by the artist Diego Velazquez.
This seemingly unremarkable painting has already brought a lot of grief to its owners.
They say that whoever acquired the cursed painting quickly went bankrupt and died from this. That is why “Venus with a Mirror” could not find a permanent owner for a long time. In 1914, the most terrible painting was destroyed, it was cut with a knife by an unknown woman.
"Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya
He depicted in his painting a mythical character named Kronos, who was afraid that he would be overthrown by his own son, and in despair devoured the flesh of his children.
"Nightmare" by Henry Fuselli
"Nightmare" is the work of the famous English artist Henry Fuselli. The author's work leaned more towards mysticism and secrets. He drew his plots from mythology and literature (most often the master depicted the works of Shakespeare).
In Nightmare, Fuselli depicted a lying unconscious woman with an incubus (a demon indulging in sexual pleasures with lonely women) sitting on her chest. Her figure is curved and elongated. Between the curtains you can see the head of an eyeless horse, which personifies a contented demon.
Paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski
The Polish artist most often depicted dying and deformed people, wars, collapsing worlds, apocalypses and eternal grief in his paintings.
Rumor has it that the artist depicted his death on the last canvas. The painting showed the body of a stabbed man. Such a terrible fate befell the artist. He was killed by the commandant's son because Zdislav refused to lend him money.
Theodore Gericault and his "Severed Heads"
For his works, the artist used real human limbs, which he found in morgues. Therefore, it is not in vain that, after looking at the image, many claim that this is the most terrible picture in the world.
Conclusion
The painting, like a sponge, absorbs all the positive and negative emotions of the artist. The fear, anger, negativity experienced - all this is certainly reflected on the canvas. This happened in the case of all the paintings listed in our article. Looking at them, we understand what a difficult fate haunted each artist.
When it comes to painting, the imagination tends to draw pastoral scenes and majestic portraits. But in fact, fine art is multifaceted. It happened that the brushes of great artists produced very controversial paintings that hardly anyone would want to hang in their home. In our review of the 10 most terrible paintings by famous artists.
1. The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea. William Blake
William Blake is known today for his prints and romantic poetry, but was largely unappreciated during his lifetime. Blake's prints and illustrations are classics of the Romantic style, but today we'll look at a series of Blake's watercolor paintings that depict the great red dragon from the Book of Revelation. This painting depicts a large red dragon, the embodiment of the devil, standing on a seven-headed beast in the sea.
2. Study of the portrait of Innocent X by Velazquez. Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His paintings, striking in their boldness and darkness, sell for millions of dollars. During his lifetime, Bacon often painted his own interpretations of the portrait of Pope Innocent X. In the original work by Velazquez, Pope Innocent X looks thoughtfully from the canvas, and Bacon depicted him screaming.
3. Dante and Virgil in Hell. Adolphe William Bouguereau
Dante's Inferno, with its depictions of terrible torture, has inspired artists since the publication of this work. Bouguereau is best known for his realistic depictions of classical scenes, but in this painting he depicted the circle of hell where imposters continually fight to steal each other's identities through biting.
4. Death of Marat. Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch is Norway's most famous artist. His famous painting “The Scream,” which personifies melancholy, is firmly ingrained in the consciousness of any person who cares about art. Marat was one of the leading political leaders of the French Revolution. Since Marat suffered from a skin disease, he spent most of the day in the bathroom, where he worked on his works. It was there that Marat was killed by Charlotte Corday. More than one artist has depicted the death of Marat, but Munch’s painting is especially realistic and cruel.
5. Severed heads. Theodore Gericault
Géricault's most famous work is "The Raft of the Medusa" - a huge painting in the romantic style. Before creating major works, Géricault painted “warm-up” paintings like “Severed Heads,” for which he used real limbs and severed heads. The artist took similar material from morgues.
6. Temptation of Saint Anthony. Matthias Grunewald
Grunewald often painted religious images in a medieval style, although he lived during the Renaissance. Saint Anthony went through several tests of his faith while living in the desert. According to one legend, Saint Anthony was killed by demons living in a cave, but was later reborn and destroyed them. This painting depicts Saint Anthony, who was attacked by demons.
7. Still life of masks. Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was one of the first Expressionist artists, although his fame was soon eclipsed by a number of other Expressionists such as Munch. The essence of this movement is the distortion of reality to show a subjective point of view. This painting was made by the artist after researching masks in the Berlin Museum.
8. Saturn devouring his son. Francisco Goya
In Roman myths, which are largely based on Greek mythology, the father of the gods devoured his own children so that they would never dethrone him. It was this act of killing children that Goya depicted. The painting was not intended for the public, but was painted on the wall of the artist's home along with several other dark paintings, collectively known as "Black Painting."
9. Judith and Holofernes. Caravaggio
In the Old Testament there is a story about the brave widow Judith. Judea was attacked by an army led by the general Holofernes. Judith left the city walls and headed to the camp of the army besieging the city. There she seduced Holofernes with the help of her beauty. When the commander slept drunk at night, Judith cut off his head. This scene is quite popular among artists, but Caravaggio's version is especially creepy.
10. Garden of earthly delights. Hieronymus Bosch
Usually Hieronymus Bosch is associated with fantastic and religious paintings. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" is a triptych. The three panels of the painting respectively depict the Garden of Eden and the creation of humanity, the Garden of earthly delights and the Punishment for sins that occur in the earthly garden. Bosch's works are some of the most gruesome yet most beautiful works in the history of Western art.
Art, from the moment it appeared on the cave walls of primitive man, has excited and influenced humanity. As soon as the artist's brush touches the canvas, the real process of creation begins. The author not only does his job, he puts his soul and part of himself into his work. Streams of energy seem to flow from the fingertips, move along the brush and stop on the canvas.
This is why we literally feel that the paintings of real artists look and feel “as if they were alive.” Plots and images can cause tears, depression, disgust in a person, or, conversely, a feeling of joy and happiness.
However, the question arises: Can paintings influence our lives as a whole?
In this article you will get acquainted with the stories of paintings that can cause a slight chill. Even photographs of some of them are, if not terrifying, then certainly unpleasant. If anything, we have warned you!!!
1. "The hands resist him"
Let's start with perhaps the most notorious painting - “The Hands Resist Him” by Bill Stoneham. It became so “famous” that it was called “the most ghostly painting in the world.”
In 1972, while Stoneham was living with his wife in California, he was under contract to Charles Feingarten Gallery. According to the contract, the artist had to create two paintings per month.
The deadline for the work was coming to an end, and Stoneham decided to paint a picture based on his old photographs where he was 5 years old. He named this painting in honor of the poem that his wife wrote for Stoneham himself (the poem was about how Bill was adopted as a child, but he never knew anything about his biological parents).
The resulting image depicts a boy with a creepy, eyeless doll standing next to him. According to Stoneham, the boy is himself at the age of 5, and the doorway in the painting represents a barrier between the real world (where the hands are depicted) and the world of dreams. At the same time, the doll is a guide to the world of fantasy.
As for the hands, the artist said mysteriously: “Hands could mean anything... But, you will definitely have a question: Are these hands without a body? The body was dismembered, and the hands themselves? Or are they still there, with the body?”
The painting was exhibited at the Feingarten Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. This painting was mentioned in the Los Angeles Times in an article by art critic Henry Seldis. At this exhibition, the painting attracted the attention of actor John Marley, who played the role of Jack Waltz in The Godfather. He liked it so much that he decided to buy it.
Within one year after the creation of the painting, three people died at once: art critic Seldis, gallery owner Feingarten and actor Marley. After that, the painting seemed to disappear, until in 2000 the couple found it left behind by someone behind a brewery (which, by the way, had been turned into an art space) in California.
They took this painting for themselves, considering it a good acquisition. In February of the same year, they put it up for sale on eBay, explaining that this painting carries horror, and in general it is cursed and ghosts come out of it. Their announcement was more like a warning than an announcement.
Fully capitalized and misspelled, the ad contained a mini-story about why they decided to get rid of the painting. According to the couple, their 4-year-old daughter said that she saw the children from the picture come into the room at night and start fighting.
The woman herself (the girl’s mother) does not believe in UFOs and similar things, but her husband decided to install a camera. The camera filmed for three nights in a row.
In the end, the couple received pictures confirming their daughter's words. In a photo they posted on eBay, the doll is allegedly holding a gun, threatening a boy. The couple also asked in their announcement not to make any claims after purchasing the painting.
This ad has been viewed over 30,000 times. In the comments, people wrote that they felt sick as soon as they saw these photos. Some people tried to print them, but the printer gave an error or broke down.
Some claimed that when viewing the photo they felt warm currents of air that enveloped them and whispered various things in their ears in children's voices. And someone even set fire to sage to cleanse their living space of evil spirits after browsing an eBay page.
As a result, the painting was bought by Kim Smith, owner of Perception Gallery in Michigan, for $1,025. A year later, a paranormal website contacted Smith and asked whether anything paranormal had happened after purchasing this painting or not.
Smith, in her response, said that the painting itself did not bring her any failures or troubles, but letters from people with advice on how to cleanse the room, how to protect yourself with the help of a shaman, definitely drove her crazy.
The gallery workers turned to the artist himself with a question about the gun in the doll’s hands. The artist confidently and even with a bit of irony answered that there was no gun there. Normal digital noise and interference that distorts the original image.
The painting is currently in the gallery's storage and has only been exhibited 6 times. Each time the picture caused fear among gallery visitors. The artist himself subsequently created a sequel to the painting (2 paintings, one of which depicted the same characters 40 years later). But, alas, they did not hide any mystery, and certainly did not bring misfortune to anyone.
2. Portrait of Bernardo de Galvez
At the end of the hallway at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston, Texas, hangs a portrait of Bernardo de Galvez, the Spanish commander who helped American troops during the Civil War. Also, the city itself is named in his honor.
Despite the fact that Galvez died in 1786, rumors about his ghost appeared during his lifetime. Guests and hotel employees claimed that the eyes in the portrait followed them as they walked down the corridor.
One of the strangest aspects is that Galvez does not allow his portrait to be photographed without “permission.”
People claim that any photo taken without permission comes out blurry, or produces unexplained orbs, fogs, streaks, or even ghosts. A group of paranormal researchers decided to check if this is actually true.
A cold shiver ran through them when they realized that unless you asked permission from the painting, the pictures turned out blurry.
3. "Crying Boy"
In fact, this is not one picture, but a whole series. In 1950, Italian artist Bruno Amadio, also known as Giovanni Bragolin, painted more than 65 portraits of crying orphans, which he sold as souvenirs to tourists.
Very quickly his paintings became popular in England and they began to be copied en masse. And until the 1980s, nothing strange happened.
Beginning in 1985, firefighters began to claim that they were finding completely intact copies of "The Crying Boy" among the ashes and rubble of burned houses. Copies were always placed face down on the floor. In more than 50 houses, paintings inexplicably escaped the fire.
Numerous psychics have stated that the ghosts of orphans killed during World War II haunted these paintings. This whole story has reached the level of an urban legend.
It should be noted that the original story appeared in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, so many did not believe everything that was happening.
The Sun, to verify the legend, organized a massive bonfire for the owners of the paintings. When they brought the reproductions to the general burning, they discovered that the copies burned surprisingly very slowly.
There is even one video on the BBC where one guy tried to burn a copy, pointing out that it burns slower than a normal copy of any other painting.
Maybe we should blame those who covered the copies of paintings with fire-resistant varnish?
4. "Martyr"
Undoubtedly, this is an eerie and scary picture. It was allegedly stored for 25 years in the attic of the grandmother of a man named Sean Robinson. According to the grandmother, the artist, when creating the painting, mixed his blood with paint, and immediately after its completion he committed suicide.
She also said that from the painting one could hear various voices, screams and tears, and as the grandmother believed, the painting was haunted by the spirit of the creator. All this forced the old woman to hide the painting in the attic.
In 2010, Robinson inherited the painting, and almost immediately his family allegedly encountered a series of strange events. Robinson stated that after he took over the Martyr, his son was pushed down the stairs by unseen forces; his wife often felt something stroking her hair, and the whole family heard the screams and crying that Robinson's grandmother described.
Robinson even decided to place a camera next to the painting to record paranormal activity, and then uploaded the recording to YouTube. The video he received showed the painting itself falling to the floor, and the doors in the house periodically slamming. And sometimes strange smoke emanated from the painting.
Many users, after watching the video, claimed that it was a hoax. Robinson has reportedly locked the cursed painting in his basement and refuses to sell it.
5. Painting with a headless man
Our next unusual painting is, in fact, a painting painted from a photograph. In the mid-1990s, an artist known only as Laura P. made a living by creating paintings from photographs. One day, her attention was drawn to a strange photo taken by photographer James Kidd.
In the photo, an old stagecoach is depicted in the foreground, and the image of a headless man appears to the side. Kidd insisted that this was not the case when he developed the photo. This became clear over time. Laura couldn't explain what attracted her to the photo, but she was overcome by an irresistible desire to paint a picture.
The artist reported that almost immediately after she started painting, she could not overcome feelings of fear and anxiety. For a very long time she did not dare to complete what she started, and when the test was over, the painting ended up in the local office.
Workers in the office claimed that as soon as the painting came to them, documents began to disappear in the office, and objects changed their locations. After 3 days the painting was returned to the author. When Laura moved with her husband to a new house, the painting, along with a mysterious force, moved with them.
In the new home, the couple repeatedly heard various abnormal sounds, such as banging, footsteps and other less identifiable noises, which always seemed to take place in the vicinity of the painting. In addition, other strange phenomena began to occur with increasing frequency.
Very soon things began to move around the house, doors opened, the roof began to leak, although everything was fine with it. One incident was incredibly creepy: the glass Laura was drinking from suddenly burst in her hand, and a large shard of glass disappeared without a trace.
Laura regretted painting this picture and expressed a desire to destroy it.
6. "Love Letters"
The list of cursed paintings will be supplemented by a portrait of a little girl, which can be seen at The Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA.
The girl in the painting is very similar to another girl named Samantha Houston, the 4-year-old daughter of a US senator who died while staying at the hotel.
She fell down the stairs while chasing a ball. Guests and employees have reported that the girl in the painting sometimes changes her facial expression. There is also numerous evidence that the picture “makes” you feel bad, and that it makes you feel dizzy and nauseous.
Perhaps the ghost of the senator’s daughter fell in love with this portrait and decided to “dwell” in it.
7. "Dead Mother"
Another painting “Dead Mother” by Edvard Munch (author of the painting “The Scream”). If anyone doesn’t know, Munch almost went crazy as a child. He was raised by his father, whom everyone in the area knew for his religious fanaticism, and his mother and his sisters died of tuberculosis when he was only 5 years old.
This picture seems to some extent reflect his melancholy, despair and madness. Munch spoke about his work in his characteristic manner: “Illness, madness and death were the dark angels who watched over my cradle.”
People who once owned this painting claimed that the girl’s eyes were constantly following them, and the sheets on her mother’s bed made noise or moved. Sometimes the image of the girl left the picture.
8. “Man proposes, but God disposes”
In the art gallery of Royal Holloway College, which is a university in London, hangs a painting called “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” painted by Sir Edwin Landseer. The painting depicts an Arctic expedition team with their leader Sir John Franklin. This team was not destined to survive.
They're not just stuck in the Arctic ice... They're being eaten by polar bears. This picture drives students crazy, distracts them from the exam (exams are often held in the gallery), which they then “successfully” fail.
Sometimes it is draped with the Union Jack flag. According to student legend, one student lost her mind and committed suicide in front of the audience. True or not, this is enough to get rid of the picture once and for all.
This review covers only the most famous paintings. What is it, truth or lie... It's up to you to decide. But one thing is clear: paintings are not just images. They have mystery and hidden power.
15 January 2013, 20:341. "Crying Boy"- painting by Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin. There is a legend that the boy’s father (who is also the author of the portrait), trying to achieve brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas, lit matches in front of the baby’s face. The fact is that the boy was deathly afraid of fire. The boy was crying - his father was drawing. One day the kid couldn’t stand it and shouted at his father: “Burn yourself!” A month later, the child died of pneumonia. And a couple of weeks later, the artist’s charred body was found in his own house next to a painting of a crying boy that had survived the fire. This could have been the end of it, but in 1985, British newspapers continued to report that in almost every burnt-out building, firefighters found reproductions of “The Crying Boy,” which were not even touched by the fire. 
2. "The hands resist him"- painting by American artist Bill Stoneham. The author says that the painting depicts himself at the age of five, that the door is a representation of the dividing line between the real world and the world of dreams, and the doll is a guide that can guide the boy through this world. The hands represent alternative lives or possibilities. The painting became a famous urban legend in February 2000 when it was put up for sale on eBay with a backstory saying that the painting was "haunted." According to legend, after the death of the first owner of the painting, the painting was discovered in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The family that found her brought her home, and already on the first night the little four-year-old daughter ran into her parents’ bedroom shouting that “the children in the picture are fighting.” The next night - that “the children in the picture were outside the door.” The next night, the head of the family installed a motion-sensitive video camera in the room where the painting hung. The video camera worked several times, but nothing was captured. 3. "Rain Woman"- painting by Vinnytsia artist Svetlana Telets. Even six months before the painting was created, she began to have visions. For a long time, Svetlana thought that someone was watching her. Sometimes she even heard strange sounds in her apartment. But I tried to push these thoughts away. And after some time, an idea for a new painting appeared. The image of the mysterious woman was born suddenly, but Svetlana felt as if she had known her for a long time. Facial features as if woven from fog, clothes, ghostly lines of a figure - the artist painted a woman without thinking for a minute. It was as if her hand was being guided by an invisible force. Rumor spread throughout the city that this painting was cursed after the third buyer returned the painting a few days later without even taking the money. Everyone who had this picture said that at night it seemed to come to life and walk like a shadow nearby. People began to have headaches and, even after hiding the painting in a closet, the sensation of presence did not go away. 
4. During Pushkin’s time, the portrait of Maria Lopukhina, painted by Vladimir Borovikovsky, was one of the main “horror stories”. The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after painting the portrait she died of consumption. Her father, Ivan Tolstoy, was a famous mystic and master of the Masonic lodge. That is why rumors spread that he managed to lure the spirit of his deceased daughter into this portrait. And that if young girls look at the picture, they will soon die. According to the salon gossips, the portrait of Maria destroyed at least ten noblewomen of marriageable age... 
5. "Water lilies"- landscape by impressionist Claude Monet. When the artist and his friends were celebrating the completion of the painting, a small fire broke out in the workshop. The flame was quickly doused with wine and they did not attach any importance to it. The painting hung in a cabaret in Montmartre for just a month. And then one night the place burned down. But “Lilies” managed to be saved. The painting was bought by Parisian philanthropist Oscar Schmitz. A year later his house burned down. The fire started in the office, where the ill-fated painting hung. It miraculously survived. Another victim of Monet's landscape was the New York Museum of Modern Art. “Water Lilies” were transported here in 1958. Four months later, there was a fire here too. And the damned picture was heavily charred. 
6. In a painting by Edvard Munch "Scream" a hairless suffering creature is depicted with a head resembling an inverted pear, with her palms pressed to her ears in horror and her mouth open in a silent scream. The convulsive waves of this creature’s torment, like an echo, disperse in the air around its head. This man (or woman) seems trapped in his own scream and has covered his ears in order not to hear it. It would be strange if there were no legends around this picture. They say that everyone who came into contact with her suffered from an evil fate. A museum employee who accidentally dropped a painting began to suffer from severe headaches and eventually committed suicide. Another employee, who apparently also had crooked hands, dropped the painting and had an accident the next day. Someone even burned a day after coming into contact with the painting. 
7. Another canvas that constantly accompanies trouble is "Venus with a Mirror" Diego Velazquez. The painting's first owner, a Spanish merchant, went bankrupt, his trade deteriorating every day until most of his goods were captured by pirates at sea and several more ships sank. Selling everything he had by auction, the merchant also sold the painting. It was acquired by another Spaniard, also a merchant who owned rich warehouses in the port. Almost immediately after the money for the canvas was transferred, the merchant’s warehouses caught fire from a sudden lightning strike. The owner was ruined. And again there is an auction, and again the painting is sold along with other things, and again a wealthy Spaniard buys it... Three days later he was stabbed to death in his own house during a robbery. After that, the painting could not find its new owner for a long time (its reputation was too damaged), and the canvas traveled to different museums, until in 1914 a madwoman cut it up with a knife. 
8. "Demon Defeated" Mikhail Vrubel had a detrimental effect on the psyche and health of the artist himself. He could not tear himself away from the picture, he continued to add to the face of the defeated Spirit and change the color. “The Defeated Demon” was already hanging at the exhibition, and Vrubel kept coming into the hall, not paying attention to the visitors, sat down in front of the painting and continued to work, as if possessed. Those close to him became concerned about his condition, and he was examined by the famous Russian psychiatrist Bekhterev. The diagnosis was terrible - tabes spinal cord, near madness and death. Vrubel was admitted to the hospital, but the treatment did not help, and he soon died. 
Artistic art can be different - beautiful and cute, impressive or frightening, touching the soul or turning inside out. But there are several paintings in the world that no collector wants to see in his home. Pictures that are creepy to the point of horror and take away souls...
1. "Hands That Resist Him" (Bill Stoneham)
The painting, created by Bill Stoneham in 1972, does not look entirely terrible at first glance. If you don’t know that the pictured girl with a doll’s face is a guide to THAT world, and don’t see the palms on the other side of the glass. And also not knowing how many deaths it caused.
2. “The Scream” (Edvard Munch)
It’s not for nothing that this picture is one of the most terrible. All people who came into contact with her very soon fell ill and died.
3. Gallowgate Lard (Ken Curry)
You are unlikely to want to hang a self-portrait of a famous artist above your bed. After all, seeing him awake, you can end up in a mental hospital for a long time.
4. “Still life of masks” (Emil Nolde)
Emil Nolde's painting in the style of expressionism rightfully occupies a place in the ranking of the most terrible paintings. They say that if you look at his original for more than 10 minutes, you can go crazy.
5. “Two Old Men Eating Soup” (Francisco Goya)
The plot from the series of paintings painted on the walls of Francisco Goya’s house resembles a nightmare. Seeing this painting really makes you feel creepy.
6. “Severed Heads” (Theodore Gericault)
The mere fact that the painting depicts real heads (the artist copied them from skulls taken from the morgue) is terrifying.
7. “The Crying Boy” (Bruno Amadio)
The plot of this picture is not scary at all. However, there is one thing that many people avoid. According to popular belief, it causes fires in the room in which it is located.
8. “Water Lilies” (Claude Monet)
The painting “Water Lilies” is a true masterpiece of world art. But wherever it hung, fire broke out everywhere. What is this accident? Coincidence? Or maybe it’s already a pattern?
9. “Venus at the Mirror” (Diego Velazquez)
Not a single art lover wants to have such a harmless painting in his collection. Legend has it that if you hang it in your own home, a dark streak will immediately begin in the life of the owner.
10. “Woman of the Rain” (Svetlana Taurus)
The last painting in today's rating is the work of the Venetian artist Svetlana Taurus. She drew it back in 1996. I was able to sell it only a few years later. She should have been happy with the sale, but only after 2 weeks the buyer returned the canvas. The reason is the feeling of the presence of someone else in the apartment. The same thing happened with the second and third buyers. Now the painting hangs modestly in one of the shops in Venice.
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