The Hands Resist Him is a painting created by artist Bill Stoneham in 1972. It depicts a boy and a female doll standing in front of a glass-paneled door that skipped many hand pressed. According to Stoneham, the boy is based on a picture of himself at the age of five, the doorway is a representation of the dividing line between the waking world and the world of fantasy and impossibility, while the doll is the guide that will guard the child through me. Titular hands represent life or alternative possibilities. The painting became the subject of urban legend and internet viral meme in February 2000 when it was displayed for sale on eBay along with an intricate backstory that implies that it is haunted.
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The painting was first shown at the Feingarten Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, during the early 1970s. The one-man show of Stoneham in the gallery, which included the work, was reviewed by art critics at the Los Angeles Times. During the show, the painting was purchased by actor John Marley, best known for his role as Jack Woltz at The Godfather. Sometime after Marley's death, the painting was found in an old brewery, by an elderly Californian couple (as stated in their original eBay list). The painting appeared on eBay auction site in February 2000. According to the seller, the couple mentioned above, the painting brought some form of curse. Their eBay description made a series of claims that the painting was cursed or haunted. Included in the claims is that the characters in the painting move at night, and that they sometimes leave the painting and enter the room where the painting is displayed. Also included with the list is a series of photographs that are said to be evidence of an incident in which a female doll character threatens a male character with a gun he holds, causing him to attempt to leave the painting. Disclaimer is included with a list that frees the seller from all responsibility if the painting is purchased.
News from the list was quickly dispersed by Internet users who forwarded links to their friends or wrote their own pages about it. Some people claim that just looking at the pictures of the paintings makes them feel ill or have an unpleasant experience. Finally, the auction page is viewed more than 30,000 times.
After the initial $ 199 bid, the painting finally received 30 offers and sold for $ 1,025.00. The Buyer, Perception Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, finally contacted Bill Stoneham and told an unusual story about his auctions on eBay and his earnings. He reported that he was quite surprised by all the stories and strange interpretations of the pictures in the painting. According to artists, the object that is considered by eBay sellers as a weapon is actually nothing more than a dry cell battery and wire mesh.
Stoneham recalled that the gallery owner where the painting was first shown, and the art critic who reviewed it, died within a year of touching the painting.
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New painting in series
Someone who saw the story of the original painting contacted Stoneham about assigning a sequel. Stoneham accepts and paints a sequel called Resistance in Threshold . This sequel depicts the same character 40 years later in the same style as the original. The second sequel, Threshold of the Revelation , solves the mystery of the life of the boys including the life of the doll/girl (possibly his sibling, found late in their life), completed in 2012 and can be seen on the Stoneham Website. A few years later, a third commission was requested, this time for prequel. Stoneham created The Hands Invent Him , describing the artist as the boy behind the original painting door and holding the paint brush among other visual elements. On March 15, 2017, the Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, announced it had acquired a prequel painting. All three paintings that are commissioned can be viewed on Stoneham's "The Sequels" website.
See also
- The Crying Boy , a painting that is also said to be condemned.
References
- IMDb Hand Rejects Him
- Amazon Book by copyright holder 'The Hands Resist Him' Darren Kyle O'Neill
External links
- Surfing in Apocalypse
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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