The most unusual paintings of famous artists: photo and description

Art can not only inspire, but also fascinate or even frighten. Creating unusual paintings with their own hands, artists embody the most secret images, and sometimes they turn out to be very strange. However, such creations almost always have a lot of fans.

What are the most unusual pictures of the world, who creates them and what can they tell about?

"Hands resist him"

This eerie picture begins its history in 1972. It was then that Bill Stoneham, an artist from California, found in his archive an old photograph. It featured children: Bill himself and his sister, who died at the age of four. The artist was surprised that the photo was taken in a house that the family acquired after the girl's death. The mystical case inspired Bill to create this unusual painting.

When the canvas was presented to the art critic, he soon died. It's hard to say whether this can be called a coincidence, because the actor John Marley, who bought the painting, soon died. The canvas was lost, and then found in a dump. The small daughter of the new owners of the painting immediately began to notice the strange - she assured that painted children were fighting or come to the door to her room. The father of the family put a camera in the room with the picture, which should have reacted to the movement, and it worked, but each time there was only interference on the film. When at the beginning of the new millennium the canvas was put up for an online auction, users started complaining about the poor state of health after viewing it. Nevertheless, he was bought. Kim Smith, owner of a small art gallery, decided to buy something unusual as an exhibit.
The history of the picture does not end - the evil evoking from it is now celebrated by the visitors of the exhibition.

"Crying boy"

Referring to the unusual paintings of famous artists, you can not call this one. About the "accursed" painting called "The Weeping Boy" knows the whole world. To create a picture, the artist used his own son as a model. The boy could not cry for no reason, and his father especially frustrated him, frightening lit matches. Once the child shouted to his father: "Burn yourself!", And the curse was effective - the baby soon died of pneumonia, and his father burned alive in the house. Attention to the painting was drawn in 1985, when fires began to occur all over Northern England. In the houses people were killed, and only a simple reproduction with the image of a crying child remained intact. Bad glory is haunting the picture and now - many people simply do not take risks to hang it. Even more unusual is that the location of the original remains unknown.

"Scream"

Unusual paintings constantly attract public attention and even evoke attempts to repeat the masterpiece. One of these canvases, which has become cultic in modern culture, is the "Scream" of Munch. This mysterious, mystical image, which someone seems to be a fantasy of a mentally ill person, to someone - a prediction of an ecological disaster, and to some even an absurd portrait of a mummy. Anyway, the atmosphere of the canvas attracts to itself and does not allow to keep indifference. Unusual paintings are often full of details, and "Scream", by contrast, is clearly simple - it uses two basic shades, and the rendering of the appearance of the central character is simplified to primitivism. But it is this deformed world that makes the work particularly attractive.

Its history is also unusual - the work was abducted more than once. Nevertheless, it is preserved and remains in the museum, inspiring filmmakers to create emotional tapes, and artists - in search of no less expressive subjects than this one.

"Guernica"

Picasso's brushes are very unusual paintings, but one of them is especially memorable. Expressive "Guernica" was created as a personal protest against the Nazi actions in the city of the same name. It is full of personal experiences of the artist. Each element of the picture is full of deep symbolism: the figures run away from the fire, the bull treads the warrior, whose pose resembles a crucifix, at the feet - crushed flowers and a dove, a skull and a broken sword. The monochrome picture in the style of newspaper illustration is impressive and strongly influences the spectator's emotions.

"Mona Lisa"

Creating unusual paintings with his own hands, Leonardo da Vinci retained his own name in eternity. His paintings are not forgotten for the sixth century. The most important of them is "La Gioconda", or "Mona Lisa". Surprisingly, in the diaries of a genius there are no records of work on this portrait. No less unusual is the number of versions about who is depicted there. Some believe that this is the ideal female image or the mother of the artist, someone sees in him a self-portrait, and someone - a student of da Vinci. According to the "official" opinion, Mona Lisa was the wife of a Florentine merchant. No matter how it is, the portrait is really unusual. The lips of the girl bend a faint smile, and her eyes are amazing - it seems that this picture looks at the world, and not the spectators peer into it. Like many other unusual pictures of the world, "Gioconda" is made in a special technique: the finest layers of paint with the smallest strokes so imperceptible that neither a microscope nor an x-ray can determine the traces of the artist's work. It seems that the girl in the picture is alive, and the light smoky light that surrounds her is real.

"The Temptation of Saint Anthony"

Of course, the most unusual pictures of the world can not be studied without getting acquainted with the work of Salvador Dali. With his amazing work "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" is related the following story. At the time of creation, there was a contest for the choice of the actor for the adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's "Darling Friend". The winner must also create the image of the tempted saint. What happened inspired the artist by the fact that such a plot was used by his favorite masters, for example, Bosch. He created a triptych on this subject. A similar work was portrayed by Cezanne. The unusual nature of Dali's painting is that Saint Anthony is not just a righteous man who has seen a sinful vision. This is a desperate figure of a man, faced with sins in the form of animals on thin spider's paws - if he succumbs to temptations, the legs of spiders will break and destroy him under him.

"The night Watch"

Unusual paintings of artists often disappear or find themselves in the center of mystical events. With "Night Watch" Rembrandt nothing like this happened, but there are still a lot of mysteries with the canvas.

The plot is obvious only at first glance - militiamen going on a campaign, taking with them weapons, each hero is full of patriotism and emotions, everyone has an individuality and character. And immediately there are questions. Who is this little girl, like a bright angel, in a military crowd? A symbolic mascot of the detachment or a way to balance the composition? But it's not even important. Previously, the size of the picture was different - customers did not like it, and they cut the canvas. He was placed in a hall for feasts and gatherings, where the canvas was covered with soot for dozens of years. Now it is impossible to know what some colors were. Soot from the tallow candles can not be removed and the most thorough restoration, so you can only guess about some details.

Fortunately, now the masterpiece is safe. And at least its modern look is carefully guarded. He dedicated a separate room, which can boast of not all the famous unusual paintings.

"Sunflowers"

Complete the list, which includes the most famous unusual paintings of the world, is Van Gogh. His works are filled with deep emotion and hide behind him the tragic story of a genius unrecognized during his lifetime. One of the most memorable paintings is the canvas "Sunflowers", in which the artist's hues and brushstrokes are concentrated.

But it is interesting not only because of this. The fact is that the canvas is constantly copied, and the number of successfully sold copies exceeds those that other unusual paintings can boast of. Despite this popularity, the picture is still unique. And really failed anyone except Van Gogh.