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Man Proposes, God Disposes. Edwin Landseer's 1864 painting Man Proposes, God Disposes is believed to be haunted, and a bad omen. [6] According to urban myth, a student of Royal Holloway college once committed suicide during exams by stabbing a pencil into their eye, writing "The polar bears made me do it" on their exam paper. [7]
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図) are a genre of Japanese art consisting of painted or woodblock print images of ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings. They are considered to be a subgenre of fūzokuga, "pictures of manners and customs." [1] These types of art works reached the peak of their popularity in Japan in the mid- to late 19th century. [2]
The Hands Resist Him is a painting that was created by artist Bill Stoneham in 1972. It depicts a young boy and a female doll standing in front of a glass paneled door, against which many hands are pressed.
Ghost of a Genius: 50 x 35.4 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Oil transfer and watercolour on paper, on card 1922 Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation) 37.9 x 42.0 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Oil on canvas, on cardboard 1922 Plants in the Moonlight: 24.4 x 15.9 Detroit Institute of Arts
Female Ghost is an ukiyo-e woodblock print dating to 1852 by celebrated Edo period artist Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Toyokuni III. Female Ghost exemplifies the nineteenth century Japanese vogue for the supernatural and superstitious in the literary and visual arts.
One Hundred Ghost Stories (Japanese: 百物語, romanized: Hyaku monogatari) is a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints made by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) in the Yūrei-zu genre circa 1830. He created this series around the same time he was creating his most famous works, the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series.
Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. It may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink, digital input such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker pen, water colour and oil paint.
Casper the Friendly Ghost is a fictional character who serves as the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a translucent ghost who is pleasant and personable, [4] but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio.