The innocents, a local play finally opened and introduced some local actors. There has been a lot of mystical speculations regarding the portrait which hangs at this show's set. The one who owned the portrait for so many years prefers to be unknown. She was traveling down the street when the picture in a shop window caught her eye and for some reason, still unknown to the owner she parked her car, went into the shop, and bought the picture.
As she stood there waiting for the clerk to take the picture out of the window for her, she thought what am I doing, I can't afford to buy this picture. It's almost time for the children to go back to school and books, clothes, and school supplies are to be bought. So in her mind, she was preparing to advise the clerk that she would not purchase it for even with its beauty, there was no way she can afford it. She disclosed what she intended to, but as the girl tried to return the portrait, she suddenly uttered, I cannot afford it, but I will still buy it and I want it badly.
She still could not fathom how she bought it as she was paying the clerk and then walked out of the antique shop then her thoughts led to her husband, certain that he would be so mad of her compulsion to buy that thing that she could barely afford at that time. There was no exact date on the painting but it can be surmised that it was done in the late 1800's or early 1900's, and it featured a Russian wolfhound known as a Borzoi, with oil as its medium. This very beautiful picture when scrutinized by someone familiar with the Borzoi will easily wonder why the Borzoi in the picture was painted with an almost straight on pose and he will also get to wonder why it is only the dog's head and shoulders shown there. It is also easy to see that the shoulders and chest are not proportioned precisely.
It was just so ironic that this lady's eyes were trained to know how a Borzoi looked like and yet she still bought the strange picture. Contrary to what she thought, her husband blowing up as he arrived home that evening and found her to have purchased that painting which hung in their wall, he shared instead about how he was so allured by it, the same attraction his wife had felt.
It was the subject of so many photographers and throughout all the pictures taken by both amateurs and experts, no two photographs ever came out to be similar. There are occasions when the dog portrait would show a spectral face on its right side, then at some times it would look flat then 3 dimensional in others, but at most times, whether the portrait would appear as either black and white or in full color, strange lights would seem to emanate from it.
?We are just being too imaginative, there cannot be anything strange about this picture of ours,? insisted the husband who does not believe that the picture had some sort of entity coming along with it when he and his wife were discussing the possibility of such. It was a wonder how the big round ceramic dish that had hung on the wall fell to the ground but when they got it, there was not a crack for it was still very much intact.
During the time that director of the playhouse who is also its producer, heard about the portrait, he quickly went to the couple who gladly loaned it to him for it would be perfect for his play which was a story of the supernatural. They explained that they yearned to know who it is that moved into the house on the day they bought the portrait and they thought too that maybe letting this get used in a production such as the Innocents can enable them to discover what they wanted to learn. This their hope, at least.
To find dog artist information see this resource. Visit the page on portrait painting to get more information.
Orignal From: Using A Painting To Reveal Its Mysticism
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