So specify, what rules are you talking about?
Okay, nice little NASA cat. I give you an example.
Not only messages are inside paintings, they use it also to attack the subconscious of the viewers.
For me, it is a little complicated to explain that facts in English. But I try.
20 miles away from where I live is an old church from the 13th century. It was a catholic one and changed into protestantic in 1665.
A friend of mine is working inside as a sexton (a kind of caretaker). His hobby was to make detail pictures from the paintings inside. And he phone me to have a look at one altarpainting from 1667.
Every time when he has a longer look at it, he gets bad feelings.
I made an analysis and found the reason. I saw the "opening" symbol already from 60 ft distance.
It was the symbol that told me what to do, to make the truth visible. I took a pic and follow the instruction at home. - I was shocked about the result.
It was an attack at your mind. Your conscious can not see it, but your subconscious can and the attack hits direct into it. Not everybody, but the most people get feelings like fear.
Our brain has a division, which has to extend parts of faces to a complete face. It is needed to detect enimies who are hidden and whatching you. This is a relict of anchient times and it works automaticly every second of our life. When we look i.e. at a bush (not George) this brain division scans the object to find parts of a face. If there is something, the part will be reconstructed to a whole face, and checked if it is dangerous or not.
It there is something, this system give a warning to the "chief", the conscious. He decided if it is true or not. If he decide "fail", you will never see that object.
But as in real life, the chief can fail and the subconscious is in alert. The reactions are bad feelings, fear. You know that as " Something is whatching me, I feel it.."
If the chief decides "fail", he will never change his choice. This is one of the rules that makes the "ames room effect" possible.
The old painting masters must have knowledge about this. Because that picture is the device.
The background to that picture is, that the protestantic church promised, that they will not use paintings in the churches to set the believers in fear with drawings about the hell etc.
But they did it as well, this painting was part of the new altar, which was uprised after they changed to protestantic believe.
The painting is called : The surrender of the badness and the thriumph of the goodness. The title must be "Thriumph of the badness"
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This is the painting (10ft high) from 1667 made by an artist called Jürgen Ovens, he studied in the netherlands in the 17th century.
Try to find out :
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