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Disturbing Works of Art

I'm torn. I like a lot of Magritte's work but the longer I look at specific individual paintings the more disturbed I get. It's just wrong, a distortion of reality that shouldn't be. This painting is the one that creeps me out the most.

I started out really liking it and set it as my phone wallpaper. Then it just became unsettling; like if I looked at it long enough reality itself would unwind. So I changed my background to something wholesome and normal.

I'm reminded of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, where people go mad over such things and end up getting devoured by Things Lurking Beyond.

Have you ever had a disturbing experience with a work of art?

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by Anonymousreply 6March 21, 2022 12:36 AM

This painting by Edward Hopper, too - I really like it at first but it gets disturbing after awhile. Something about the stark colors, the fact that the house is cut off from the viewer by the railroad tracks. It becomes more foreboding the longer I look.

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by Anonymousreply 1March 20, 2022 11:46 PM

R1, it looks like it could have been the inspiration for Norman Bates's house.

by Anonymousreply 2March 20, 2022 11:51 PM

You're correct, r1:

[quote]The painting is reported to have influenced the Bates home in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho,[2] one of the homes in the 1956 film Giant directed by George Stevens, the home Charles Addams created for The Addams Family,[3][4] and the house in Days of Heaven.[5]

by Anonymousreply 3March 20, 2022 11:52 PM

R3, wow, I'm glad I'm right! But they really do look so similar, it's difficult NOT to notice.

by Anonymousreply 4March 20, 2022 11:54 PM

This scared the shit outta me: "Madonna and Child" by Dali

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by Anonymousreply 5March 21, 2022 12:00 AM

Looks like the house in Giant to me.

by Anonymousreply 6March 21, 2022 12:36 AM
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