crying boy painting story

Amadio was one of the most mysterious artists of the mid-1900s. They were eventually burnt in a gigantic bonfire with Page Three girls helping out.

Massimo Polidoro Curse That Painting Notes On A Strange World

Although the crying boy paintings existed likely before 1985 that is when they entered the cultural consciousness.

. Each of the collection depicted young teary-eyed innocent children who were often represented as the poor and really beautiful. A portrait of a young crying boy. While its not been reported just how many of these mass-produced paintings.

The Tale of the Cursed Crying Boy. By itself the painting wasnt really newsworthy. Jacqueline SimpsonJacqueline Simpson Steve RoudSteve Roud.

It was in 1985 that The Sun which was the most popular tabloid newspaper in the UK and throughout much of the English speaking world at the time ran a story in its September 4 edition titled Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy and explored how there had been many houses in Yorkshire where the owners had at least one print of the Crying Boy. In a series of articles they built up the story that the picture was very bad luck to those who owned it and that it somehow caused fires but was. So it was little surprise that I was so enamored with the story of the cursed Crying Boy painting which Mamamia covered late last year.

In September 1985 Ron and May Halls home in Rotherham caught fire. Most of the downstairs was destroyed or at the very least burned. To summarise the tale in the 1980s there was a spate of house fires in England.

Heres the story about the painting and its numerous prints. From around 1985 onwards a series of mysterious house fires were brought to the attention of the general public following the discovery that in each case the buildings and all their contents were completely destroyed apart from a painting - the Crying Boy which remained. However a print of the crying boy which was hanging downstairs remained completely.

A story spread that the crying boy was a Spanish street urchin called Don Bonillo whose parents had died in a fire. In the 1980s another notorious cursed object was making headlines. The series became so much famous all around the world that.

But rumours about the painting refused to die. The Crying Boy is significantly one of the most memorable series of artworks finished by the famed Italian artist Giovanni Bragolin in the 1950s. Among the ashes fire fighters would find the Crying Boy painting unharmed by the flames.

10 The Artist Used a Pseudonym. A Dictionary of English Folklore Authors. The Crying Boy paintings were signed by Giovanni Bragolin an Italian painter who doesnt really exist.

Apparently out of the blue in October 1985 the tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a story about a popular painting which they dubbed The Crying Boy being cursed or jinxed. But its how these yes multiple paintings of the young crying boy were discovered that was truly fascinating. Apparently out of the blue in October 1985 the tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a story about a popular painting which they dubbed The Crying Boy being cursed or jinxed.

Soon their offices were stacked with 2500 prints of The Crying Boy. A documentary about the famous curse of the Crying Boy paintings which were blamed for numerous house fires and paranormal events in the UK during the 197. The true artist was a Spanish painter named Bruno Amadio although he was also known to go by Franchot Seville on occasion.

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