Velvet Buzzsaw is a divisive film, but one I happened to love. For anybody else who just couldn’t get it out of their head after watching it, I’d love to hear from you.
For the rest of this essay, I will refer to the entity inhabiting Dease’s paintings as the Art Spirit. Throughout the film, this entity kills a number of characters by somehow using works of art against them. It is unclear who or what the Art Spirit is, but I don’t think it necessarily matters for purposes of this theory. That’s a topic for another day.
Below, I will try to dissect a number of common theories about how the Art Spirit behaves and discuss how well they hold up. I will then present my own theory. Although