"Looky" Hugo Simberg (1885) Kimmo Huosionmaa Do you remember the series ”X-files”? There is often a theme, of ”Black oil”. An alien organism, what transforms the people as an alien. That black oil was group the mushroom-like neurons, what was slipped in the human body, and take it under control. This theme of ”Black oil” is also in many portraits, what are painted in Finnish national romantic era. The "Black oil" symbolizes also the bad feelings and thoughts, what fills the head of the person, and we must say that thoughts are the operating system of human being. They are actually, what the people really are, and they are things that control our behavior. That theme is in the Hugo Simberg's portrait ”Looky”, from our national gallery. In some cases the investigator makes this painting look like little bit humorist. Somebody seems in this painting a character, what sits on the anthill, and waits for something. But the most modern rendition of this...