Art, whether visual, performance-based, music and literature, all shapes and reflects the culture that surrounds the establishment. Although you can learn from the surface of each work in the local art gallery, often there is a story behind the artist and the work. Below are some of the worst (and hauntingly beautiful) hidden secrets of creative works in history.
NEB Senu
In June 2013 curator in the Egyptian wing at Manchester Art Museum verified the relevant complaints after a surveillance tape of the visitors turned to some 3800 years old statue. The 10-Neb figure Senu turn over a full 360 degrees in the video goes on, but no one can see you touch the statue. The curator explanation? Spirits. He claims that the figure of 80 years, the gallery, did not move until now!
The nightmare
Henry Fuseli The Nightmare remains best-known work. The painting depicts the top of a small goblin-like creature sitting on a woman’s chest. The woman is lying on his back, covered with faint white drapes. The Anglo-Swiss artist even went so far as to create a second, darker colors and even creepier version fearsome creature. Even more terrible? The fact that many cultures possess some myths about a creature lying on a chest, pulling together a person’s ability to breathe while sleeping. For some it is an old woman, or a witch. For Fuseli, it seems that it was the shadow beast. Currently, the pieces can be found at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Saturn, the worst father ever
Paul Rubens Francisco Goya, they all saw the scar image of Saturn devouring his son an art gallery or another. Pulling a dark, twisted world of Greek mythology, Cronus works of artists like to depict a child killer. Titanium thought that he broke with his children. So instead of a chance, he decided to eat every child. Fortunately, Cronus’s wife was aware of the plan and gave birth to their son Zeus in secret. Any depiction of the story is much darker than any Disney film have not been able to portray. Goya pieces are currently hanging in the Prado, but do not need to visit the art gallery to experience the feelings of isolation, chaos, and fear associated with the image. Many of the original copies are available on the Internet, as well as several versions.
Next time you visit an art gallery, and a closer look. It may have some dark secrets behind the play or story. For example, the artist Walter Sickert was thought to be due to Jack The Ripper obsession of killer handicrafts and depictions of intimate details of the killer’s life. Van Gogh cut off his own ear. The Surrealists touched the innermost nightmares, and set them free. Get the full picture when looking for the story behind the art!