Update? Well sorta...
Someone recently posted this link in the comments section,
Psychcentral
It still doesn't answer one question, whether or not the painting had any tell tale signs of the artists condition, the artist still had a mental disorder. The facts are that a real man named A. Kuplin painted this painting. He was in a mental institution when he painted it. All I want to know at this point is, why was he in the mental institution?
If anybody ever finds the answer, please, let us know.
-> Read the full story behind the painting.
5 comments:
A professor has shown me this painting before.
Look at his other painting, it has a lot of hints.
The patient was schizophrenic and thought he was snowman, thats why all the children are looking at him, and the adults are disinterested.
He's also melting in the second one.
He had a fear of melting or becoming human.
"For example, Fedor Artem'ev syn Kuplin, 50, and his wife Evdokeia, 35, who traded livestock in Belev, had plenty to worry about in 1718. In addition to their two-week-old twins, they also took care of a goddaughter who was six years old. But their biggest burden, no doubt, came from the orphan whom they had taken into their household: Evdokeia Markova doch' was 30, maimed (her right ann was dysfunctional), and mentally retarded. Nevertheless, the Kuplins were able to cope: not only did they have their own house, but they also enjoyed their own bathhouse as well as a stall in the butcher's row of the Belev market, and paid taxes like everyone else."
SOURCE: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-21186980.html
She took their name after living with them.
The condition was supposed to be rare, schizophrenia isn't rare, but maybe thinking your a snowman is. As for that link, it does say what you quoted, but for whatever reason the page tried to hijack my browser to another page. Not sure what that was about, looked through the pages javascript and it looks shady. So visit the site at your own discretion. Odd that a site who owns the encyclopedia.com domain would have malicious code, but...
Anyway, thanks for the info, it is very much appreciated.
Keep in mind that schizophrenia is the name for a series of disorders.
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