Now, I will go on :
The most important thing is how can I decide, that there is something in it ?
No, the question is "Is there a MESSAGE" not "something".
The painters use opening signals, to catch your attantion. If a master painter paint something wrong is a strong hint, that he wants you to go deeper inside the painting.
Nope sorry that is not a rule. That is not even a rule of thumb. What you describe of as "hints" and things being "wrong" could be mistakes or artistic choices. That the painting may have images on multiple layers of significance is not the same as suggesting there are puzzles, riddles or messages.
In this case it is the guy in the center of the painting. Something is with his hairs. They are black in spite of all the others and they look like a long wig.
No, different is not "wrong". Different is as likely to mean "this figure is standing out to attract your eye" for exactly the reasons you would expect. They are the focus of the painting.
From the distance, I see the wellknown symbol of a mirror axis: it is an "X". formed by parts of his "hair" and the wooden cross. All painters and drawers know this very old sighn.
Yes, it's almost as if artists consider composition in ways that are pleasing to look at. This is also a happy by-product of the symmetry you are about to dicuss. You are applying significance for which there is no evidence beyond style and convention.
His body is in a position, as if he want to rotate the wood cross against clockwise turn.
So there is a symbol for a mirroraxis and a hint to mirror the left side of the painting to the right side. The mirroraxis he told me, is exactly in the middle of the painting. So I followed his hints and mirrowed the left half painting to the right side and I got a new painting
Yes.
which tells me the truth.
No. A second image hidden in this way is not all that uncommon, nor is it a message or truth. In modern parlance it is an "Easter Egg".
It is not the "goodness" which has win.
Not in the "Easter Egg". You applied a mirror to make the new image. Are you really all that surprised to leard that the reflection of good being triumphant is that evil may triumph?
Please remember that this mirrowed pic is visible from our subconscious all the time while whatching the painting, without our knowledge !
Again. Not entirely true. You will notice there is a line of symmetry that might be applied, but that is to reveal a secondary image. One that is considered an inferior image, a nice little surprise for added money.
This is only a little part of the rules how to find the intention of the painter. This mirror technic is one of the "tricks" they use. One of many.
Oh goody. So you
still aren't even trying to answer the question then. Still no definition of methodology or process, just an observation that some old paintings have easter eggs framed as a pretencious lesson in your superior understanding?
Okay. You had your chance. You have not shown what was asked for. You did not show there was hidden information in the painting. You did not show a method of analysis to identify meaningful messages. You did not show any rules for discounting coincidental images. You did not show anything that can be applied to any other painting but that one.
As the Mirror rule is not applicable to the film, as symmmetry is not applicable to the film, as your methodology used here is not applicable to the film, may I ask why you chose this example?
Oh, and I thought this was to be an example of iconology. Should you not have discussed how the icon, the revealed image, offeres a cultural, historical, or social significance over and beyond "the inverse of good being triumphant is evil triumphant"? Should your example of iconological analysis not have included at a bare minimum some iconology?
