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#81
12-03-2006, 04:43 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
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phobia of roads? [/ QUOTE ] I was considering this, too. 
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#82
12-03-2006, 04:49 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
wow everyone has been owned pretty badly by this. why are people so gullible? :/
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#83
12-03-2006, 04:51 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
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If you factor in the "what was it before this scene", the strange part is that none of the people are paying attention to the sled race - they are just doing what they were doing before the sleds came through. [/ QUOTE ] I think this is the best guess so far. From the veryrussian site: "In one of the LJ discussions, someone mentioned that the background and foreground are completely separate from each other - couldn’t that correspond to schizophrenia or in general being delusional?" My initial reaction was a fear of dogs. I thought dogs pulled sleds, not horses. I've never seen horse pulled sleds before. But then I saw the painting this was based on and I guess that debunks my hypothesis.
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#84
12-03-2006, 04:59 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
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I call shenanigans on the whole thing. First, "insane" is a legal term, not a psychiatric one. Lawyers might argue over whether someone was insane when he committed a murder, but a psych professor would never describe someone as insane. Second, the description of the mental disorder is very un-psychiatric. "He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia (undisclosed)." The first sentence suggests schizophrenia, though that is characterized much more by auditory hallucinations than visual. A phobia would have to be extremely severe if it manifested itself in the way the artist adapted a picture. Someone who's afraid of flying would generally be able to copy a picture of a plane. We'll have to see what the answer is, but this just seems very, very unlikely to be true. [/ QUOTE ] I kind of agree, but I still hope there is an answer to this, because it is driving me crazy (ha, pun!).
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#85
12-03-2006, 05:07 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
okay okay, am i the only who noticed this?
there are HORSES pulling the sleds. When do you EVER see that many horses pulling on a sled, especially in the snow? My guess is that the painter is afraid of dogs.
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#89
12-03-2006, 05:15 PM
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Re: Why is this painter insane?
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from the blog: [ QUOTE ] The professor who promised to come yesterday didn’t. They say he’s coming tomorrow, though. One more clue. Someone made this guess. The painting depicts the Maslenitsa (Shrovetide, the feast on the last day before the Lent — the Brazilian carnival is the same holiday). It’s one of the holidays with pagan roots, and the celebration involves burning a strawman — symbolising, if I remember correctly, the ending winter. Now, could it be that you’re the burning strawman? To which the professor allegedly replied, “not a strawman — but close”. Also, he said the keywords are water and air. (Now that I think of it — could it be painted from the perspective of a falling, and possibly melting, snowflake? Was the phobia a fear of falling? [/ QUOTE ] OMG, that was going to be my guess!
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