http://www.metafilter.com/tags/brut Posts tagged with 'brut' at MetaFilter. Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:49:04 -0800 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:49:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/56678/Russian%2DPsychoanalytic%2DArt%2DMystery <a href="http://www.veryrussian.net/2006/could-this-be-the-new-da-vinci-code.html">"This was painted by a person with a rare and severe mental disorder. He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia..."</a> <small>(via <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>)</small>. The <a href="http://www.museum.ru/Outsider/pice.asp?psih_07">image</a> is an imperfect reproduction of a particular <a href="http://www.ljplus.ru/img/k/i/kissme_fortune/Maslenica.jpg">postcard</a> dated 1972. A <a href="http://shaltai-baltai.livejournal.com/3953.html">blogger</a> <small>(in Russian)</small> claims his psychiatry professor found one aspect of this eerie painting that reveals the patient's disorder. Allegedly, only one of his students in the past 15 years has figured it out. The psychoanalytic mystery has <a href="http://june-curles.livejournal.com/20414.html">piqued the interest</a> <small>(in Russian)</small> of the online community. A number of supplemental hints</a> from the professor and <a href="http://digg.com/health/What_is_the_insane_secret_of_this_painting">thousands of guesses</a> later, the case remains unsolved. Skeptics have already decried the mystery as a traffic-boosting hoax, but a few signs still point to its authenticity. Most notably, the artist's <a href="http://www.museum.ru/primitiv/carde.asp?num=KO_0001">reproduction</a> of another <a href="http://www.artrussia.ru/artists/picture.php?rarity=1&pic_id=2&foa=f&list=1">classic painting</a> contains the following note: "transferred in 1990 from Moscow mental hospital." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56678 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:49:04 -0800 art brut hoax insanity mystery outsider psychoanalysis russian themadjuggler