Every once in a while, you come across a painting that creeps you out. Maybe it’s because of the grim subject matter, or maybe it’s because there’s a face that seems to look right through you. It would be easy to become obsessed with such a painting, and if something bad then happens, you can connect the mishap with the painting, and you’ve got the beginning of an urban legend! These tales grow over time, until they are downright horrifying. Take the case of the painting above, titled The Dead Mother by Edvard Munch.
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The painting is inspired from the death of the artist’s own mother, on account of Tuberculosis, when he was just 5-years-old. Aside from the fact that the painting is said to make people eerily uncomfortable, it has also been said that the eyes of the little girl follow you around and that you can hear Mother’s sheets rustle.
Read nine other such stories, all of them accompanied by variably disturbing paintings, at Flipboard. -via Nag on the Lake
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