If you are a sensitive or suggestive person, we recommend you not to look for a long time at this work of Bill Stoneham, but if you are of curious spirit and do not resist the temptation to know the origin and history of This stunning painting, we invite you once again to pass the threshold of mystery and investigate those aspects in which art mixes with the macabre.Those details that so much expectation usually cause among the population.
"The Hands Resist Him" was undoubtedly one of the most shocking phenomena in social networks, after a young man put it up for sale on eBay in February 2000.He said he needed to get rid of that object as soon as possible.What happened next is history and an authentic urban legend.
The sinister details of "The Hands Resist Him"
Let's analyze the work for a moment.We see a doll of human size with an empty look.Terribly empty.Hold something in your hand and stay next to a young boy.A child between 5 or 7 years old, the expression of which seems very adult.What are you looking at so seriously? We do not know.What most impacts the viewer of this work are undoubtedly those hands from the bottom.Those small hands that rise from the darkness and go to the window.Are they asking for help or just Want to show that they are there? Are they from this world?
What we do know is that when presenting the painting of "The Hands Resist Him" on ebay (in Spanish something like " the hands resist it «) The author knew very well what he was doing to cause authentic expectation.I present it as a« cursed object ».Moreover, in its sale it included a clause where it exempts the seller from any responsibility for what the painting could cause its new owners.
He also explained that he was selling it because he could no longer live with that object .He had found the work in a brewery and since he had hung the painting at home, everyone had a strange and uncomfortable feeling.His 5-year-old daughter, for example, said he saw on numerous occasions how the characters in the painting fought each other Such was the expectation caused on eBay for all those details, which received thousands and thousands of visits in a very short time.And there is more: many people also gave their testimony to having experienced the same strange events just by seeing the painting through of your computer screen...
The true story of «The hands resist him»
The author of" The Hands Resist Him "is an American named Bill Stoneham.1972 and managed to exhibit it in a gallery in Louisiana for a while.He had some success thanks to an art critic who helped him promote it.Its impact caused an actor to take an interest in her and buy her.It was John Mareley (Jack Woltz in "The Godfather").Everything seemed to be going well, but the funny thing was that, in the interval of a anus, both the art critic and this actor died, leaving this work in oblivion, in the back room of a brewery, which was finally abandoned.
So, explained by the ebay seller it was true. "The hands resist him" was found in that place, then becoming part of the young man's life, who decided to sell it because he had simply taken fear.of its author? What did Bill Stoneham say about it?
The boy in the painting was him. The author himself with five years.The work itself is a dreamlike representation.Like a threshold between the real world and the world of dreams, where the doll accompanies the child as a personal guide through that disturbing world.But what about the hands that appear behind the glass? Those hands, according to the author, represent the different possibilities of his own life.The different paths he could have taken in that moment.
For Mr.Stoneham, painting really represents those archetypes that Gustav Jung was talking about. The fears of the human being, hidden dimensions for everyone in the conscious world.however, this painting was finally bought on ebay for about a thousand dollars and it was an art gallery, who made the maximum bid and managed to expose it to the public. «Perception in Grand Rapids» in Michigan, He said some time later that they had to call an exorcist and that when he saw the painting he had the sensation of being in front of a hot oven.There, where it seemed to give off an intensely charged air…
It may be simple suggestion .Simple fear of a painting not very pleasant.Enough to lift its dark legend.And now, tell us what sensation gives you to observe "The Hands Resist Him"? Would you buy a picture like this?
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