LOL NO ONE READS DIGG, RIGHT SANGAY?
The professor gave the clue to not pay attention to the most minor of details, but rather to the differences between the original and the reproduction. Also, the professor said to imagine what the painting would be like without any of the unnatural objects there (horses, people, etc.)
*Supposedly* the closest anyone has come to figuring out the final answer dealt with silence and perspective. If you look at the reproduction, nothing looks like it would really make any sound. The horses aren't touching the ground and kicking up snow, everyone's mouths are closed, and the accordion is completely expanded and yet to be 'blown'. The supposed 'frozen river' in the reproduction (lower left corner, in the original painting it's branches) wouldn't make any sound either. So the ocnclusion that a lot of people got to was a fear of going deaf. To deal with perspective, when compared to the original painting, the reproduction seems to have an unusually high vantage point. This couldn't have been painted by someone from eye-level, so it suggests that the painter is having an 'out-of-body' experience. The professor said that the patient also had a lot of fantasies and hallucinations.
A large stretch deals with the groups of threes that are abundant in the painting. If you look in the background, three kids are building an unusually tall snowman. It's pretty tall, so the kids couldn't have built it by themselves. Snowmen are in segments of three. It's possible that the painter has out of body experiences that involve him being a snowman...snowmen have no ears and thus can't hear. Snowmen also melt away. The painter might not have a phobia of becoming a literal snowman per se, but perhaps having an out of body experience and losing his ability to hear, eventually 'melting away' without being able to get his hearing back.
The professor was supposed to come online December 1st and post the answer in his livejournal, but people had tried to get the answers from him, extracted his personal info, and otherwise harrased him, so he took down all the things on his livejournal and will refuse to post the answer.
So there are new theories that the whole ordeal was a hoax, or that the painting is normal, but the professor is crazy because he sees something in it. It's dumb.
But more importantly, Sangay wants to start inline skating. lol what a fag, am i rite?
edit -- Supposedly, a former student of the professor came online and gave the real 'answer':
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In this painting, we are Spring. You can see water, melting snow, in the lower left corner. The people are looking at us, afraid that their little world is about to melt down. They’re escaping from us, from Spring, in those sleds. It’s also why all the doors of all the houses are shut.
Keep in mind that the answer (and the initial problem) was originally in Russian and something might have been lost in its translation into English.
Edited by LiLFLiP, 06 December 2006 - 08:10 AM.
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