The Curse of the Crying Boy painting.

also: i'm going to bed now, perchance to dream of moons and saddam and oil features in corrie

Funnily enough my other 'alf covered the crying boy thing on his crime podcast Bloody Murder recently. Or at least I thought he had, maybe he was just talking about doing so.

Maybe stirmonster will remember by morning :)

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i already know i am going to be kept awake thinking about it.

in the meantime...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIj2Lpb4X0E

hahaha wtf!!

I mean it's not really

presuming that there's minimum a few dozen thousand prints of whatever counts as that generations livingroom decor in circulation

great form to make a big deal out of whatever human tragedies you can find in that most bella/NOW magazine humantragedyprone of large demographic subsets but hey misery/tabloids/ppl whatyagonnado

obviously i now have "jilted john" stuck in my head

I recall my Grandparents had the crying boy painting in their house in Renfrew Rd, Paisley when I was a nipper, also a crying clown portrait too, which wasn't scary.

My parents had a framed Vernon Ward print of geese flying - just went to look for that particular painting, and of course there are LOADS of Vernon Ward pictures of geese flying.

One of my dad's relations had the charging elephants picture over her fireplace, and a painting of JFK JR saluting his father's coffin. Perhaps the ultimate crying boy picture, even though he's not crying in it.

My other grandparents had Sacred Heart pictures (some with lamps in them) and plates of famous Renaissance shepherds and whatnot. The first time I went to the Louvre, there were so many pictures there I'd only ever seen in plate form.

The irish generation of post ww2 Fianna faillers had a seriously crazy JFK fixation ime

I remember a few brilliant holographic JFK and PJP2 prints in the hallways of my catholic friends houses.

I cant find a pic of the crying girl painting that we had with the one of the boy

― Odysseus, woensdag 5 juli 2017 23:59 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it this one?

https://img.discogs.com/jKxFWiBZ3n39a_7pUdc_qV-STyQ=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-325364-1223917566.jpeg.jpg

Nope. its by the same artist and style as the crying boy painting. she had blonde hair.

When i was wee I thought the painting of the boy was me as it looked a bit like me

cryingalgeriangoalkeeper.jpg

i googled crying girl and crying girl by Anna Zinkeisen and none of the results were of the painting we and what seemed like millions of others had

5 year old me
http://i.imgur.com/nKCQhgh.jpg

Everybody had one of these in the 1970s

http://i.imgur.com/qv3zIIP.jpg

more cursed images

Why, though?

how terribly terribly mean of mark s

Stirmonster who was the Coronation St character who liked Joy Division? We're all waiting!

"she expressed herself in many different ways"

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/a0/60/55a0608fd5ea4654352f34904f5ed6db.jpg

JD cover version on this maybe?

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/360/0212/28/uk-lp-jack-howarth-ow-bizarre_360_2e493e753a6d6bd3bc3a930cb5464759.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q2uxR1n7Eps/hqdefault.jpg

https://dgeiu3fz282x5.cloudfront.net/g/l/lgPP32602.jpg

it was albert tatlock.

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