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How This Artist Fell In Love With His Own Art

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2023 ж. 30 Қыр.
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Pygmalion and Galatea's story is a classic in art history, but Jean-Léon Gérôme made it iconic through one painting.
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    @TheCanvasArtHistory@TheCanvasArtHistory7 ай бұрын

    • but does she really turn into human or his passion and love for work turn him into one of the statues/Exegi monumentum aere perennius

      @mariannairam2218@mariannairam22187 ай бұрын

    • You always surprise us! most rewardingly.

      @numbersix8919@numbersix89197 ай бұрын

    • @TheCavasArtHistory could you tell me the song of this video, please?

      @Pedro-vl7yr@Pedro-vl7yr7 ай бұрын

  • Ancient Greek version of marrying your anime wifu.

    @viktoriabentham8664@viktoriabentham86647 ай бұрын

    • So true🤣

      @misslady2639@misslady26397 ай бұрын

    • LMFAOOOOOO

      @nitorice@nitorice7 ай бұрын

    • I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO SEE THAT COMMENT, AND ALMOST SPAT OUT MY DRINK

      @LeviTheDemonDragon@LeviTheDemonDragon7 ай бұрын

    • Lafmo

      @Thetaxevader_54@Thetaxevader_547 ай бұрын

    • Now that makes me wonder...is there a genderbend version?😂

      @ShadowDream@ShadowDream7 ай бұрын

  • I’ve always felt that there is a distinction to be drawn between being enamoured by your own art, which is quite conceited, and being enamoured by the process and intricacies of the way in which your art is produced. The best singers aren’t necessarily obsessed by their own voices, rather they adore the act of singing itself and the joy that their art form brings to others

    @JackT13@JackT137 ай бұрын

    • It's possible to love both, too. It's possible to write because you love writing, and then also getting a crush on a character you've written, possibly because you've given them all of the traits you like

      @katethegoat7507@katethegoat75077 ай бұрын

    • Conceited? I disagree, thats too strong of a word. If an artist made something they like a lot its perfectly ok to love it (as much as you can love an object). Conceited would be saying "in the best artist in the world!" Not just loving your own creation.

      @capuchinosofia4771@capuchinosofia47717 ай бұрын

    • i get what you mean, but i also think that there's a difference between loving yourself and what you produce and being conceited. i think its great to have love and affection for your own products, just as its great to love anything.

      @hwimilk@hwimilk7 ай бұрын

    • The work has a life of its own, you know that. We only mediate on its behalf.

      @numbersix8919@numbersix89197 ай бұрын

    • I have wanted to kiss one of my sculptures before…

      @Ellistar@Ellistar7 ай бұрын

  • The story of Pygmalion feels similar to the modern conception of the Otaku who idolizes a “born yesterday” waifu created for their enjoyment, without a history or her own agency, no human flaws, not even cellulite or wrinkles or body hair…

    @merrillsunderland8662@merrillsunderland86627 ай бұрын

    • ...lol

      @lovelessshoot883@lovelessshoot8837 ай бұрын

    • human behavior is a bitch. especially misogynistic patterns that can be placed throughout history.

      @z0ink5@z0ink57 ай бұрын

    • Does it?

      @josedorsaith5261@josedorsaith52617 ай бұрын

    • What if they have all of that human flaws? Still a waifu no?

      @lulukulu5489@lulukulu54897 ай бұрын

    • @@lulukulu5489 probably not to him lol

      @Hibisco_Angelita@Hibisco_Angelita7 ай бұрын

  • Dude's a Rule 34 artist

    @thetachyon456@thetachyon4567 ай бұрын

  • This painting always felt so dark to me. Pygmalion is grasping her strongly, she is born seconds ago, she is being kissed by a man with legs still in stone, she couldnt move. Her hand looked to me as though she was pulling his hand off of her. He formed her in his ideal, to be his vision of beauty. This is depicting control to me, she has no choice but to be his lover. Edit: leave it to men to tell me I'm absolutely wrong for believing an Ancient Greek myth might be a little mysoginistic, because the Ancient Greeks had such a great track record for loving women.

    @tubthungusbychumbungus@tubthungusbychumbungus7 ай бұрын

    • This is what I came to comment! My interpretation of the painting is similar to yours. She it trying to either slow him down (like, hey i love you too but lets wait a second) or get him off completely. I could have sworn there is another version of this myth in the which galatea runs off once she is alive. Maybe im mistaken. But this painting certainly reads as the start of a bad moment instead of a beautiful lovers embrace.

      @capuchinosofia4771@capuchinosofia47717 ай бұрын

    • Agree!

      @flux.aeterna@flux.aeterna7 ай бұрын

    • I also felt she was resisting him and was trying to pull / push him away

      @someuser4166@someuser41667 ай бұрын

    • Interesting interpretation, considering the painting in isolation I can totally see this vibe. In my opinion, seen in the context of the additional sculpture and paintings where the artist literally puts himself in the place of Pygmalion, personally I don't think he would intentionally want to portray himself in such a negative light. Also, the fact that Galatea was created by a goddess of love and her core ability is to provoke desire, it would make logical sense that she was created to be as in love with him as her is with her. The very idea of a goddess of love goes the against the idea of autonomy and consent in the first place. Anyway, it's an interesting topic.

      @AxiOll@AxiOll7 ай бұрын

    • Does anybody have real autonomy over who they love, though?

      @josedorsaith5261@josedorsaith52617 ай бұрын

  • When you take "putting your lover on a pedestal" very literally.

    @sunnyquinn3888@sunnyquinn38887 ай бұрын

  • Wait, a Greek myth with a "Happily ever after" ending? That cannot be right.

    @KrazyKaiser@KrazyKaiser7 ай бұрын

    • lol ikr?!

      @BagleIce@BagleIce7 ай бұрын

    • I assumed he would forget to thank aphrodite, aphrodite would get mad and make the statue kill this guy in his sleep ot something

      @creeperYT9824@creeperYT98247 ай бұрын

  • The story of pygmalion was the first thing I ever learned about art history in middle school. The interpretation of the story is beautiful and I’m happy this started my day

    @sham754@sham7547 ай бұрын

  • Ah, falling in love with one's oc waifu is an amateur mistake for an artist, but oft the truest love

    @magnawaves@magnawaves7 ай бұрын

  • The YT algorithm is pushing you quite hard XD

    @muralibhat8776@muralibhat87767 ай бұрын

    • Y-y-yamete!!! I-YAAAAA!!! 😳🥵💦

      @nightslasher9384@nightslasher93847 ай бұрын

    • Goood 😈

      @GoldenRunner@GoldenRunner7 ай бұрын

    • Fr, i don't even know how i got recommended this Im not complaining though

      @Ghibli_Otaku@Ghibli_Otaku7 ай бұрын

    • Let's pray it continues!

      @avosmash2121@avosmash2121Ай бұрын

  • It's tale often told....in a lot of anime. Guy falls in love with an inanimate object, guy wishes she's real, object becomes a girl and loves him back unconditionally -and without autonomy- ...

    @Germania9@Germania97 ай бұрын

    • Could you name to me one of those? It may be because i don't watch romance but i've never heard of an anime with a plot like that

      @basura3787@basura37877 ай бұрын

    • ​@@basura3787chobits is kind of like that

      @lackcameron4602@lackcameron46027 ай бұрын

    • @@basura3787rising of the shield hero

      @dinnerboons1504@dinnerboons15047 ай бұрын

    • There's also a vocaloid song with this plot (Leia)

      @htsunmiku@htsunmiku7 ай бұрын

  • That's a seriously beautiful painting, but has anyone got an idea of why the two old men wailing is in the right hand corner?

    @CessBee123@CessBee1237 ай бұрын

  • There are people being like "he's literaly me!"

    @lelieutenant7386@lelieutenant73867 ай бұрын

  • I love the story of Pygmalion from the viewpoint of Galatea being a metaphor for Art itself, meaning the love and artist (no matter weather he or she be a painter, musician, poet, or otherwise artistic) has for his craft where his art "coming to live" (hearing/presenting your music or artpiece to an audience, listening to your play on stage/in a movie, etc.) gives him the purest form of love and fulfillment. The LITERAL story gives me a major "ick" and feels deeply uncomfortable, creepy and unsettling, even more so when i try to remind myself that it's being meant as a romantic tale. The mysoginistic man only being able to love a woman he created according to his precise wishes without any agenda, thoughts, wants, need or even personality? Yikes. Huge "incel"-vives right there.

    @JayAnnAych@JayAnnAych7 ай бұрын

    • You explained it perfectly

      @Fluff_Noodles@Fluff_Noodles7 ай бұрын

    • What a brain dead and soulless take.

      @okkj1878@okkj18784 ай бұрын

  • The version of the story I know, is that the statue was of Aphrodite herself, and she initially refused his prayer. So he embraced the statue, and asked to be turned to stone so he could be forever with her. Aphrodite took pity on him, and gave Galatea life. So, this version actually makes sense.

    @WobblesandBean@WobblesandBean7 ай бұрын

  • Pygamlion brings art to life through his love.

    @arcadia-art@arcadia-art7 ай бұрын

  • Your videos remind me every time why I love art.. It's not only because art is beautiful, but especially because of what makes it beautiful.

    @nikoa-sh6964@nikoa-sh69647 ай бұрын

    • N. No you just like the 🍒

      @marele_communist@marele_communist7 ай бұрын

  • This was one of the most hauntingly beautiful and passionate painting I've ever seen. However you may interpret it, we can all agree that the painting was an absolute spectacle.

    @chunguskhan9217@chunguskhan92177 ай бұрын

  • I can't say I love my own art but I do love art. Whilst I'm not happy with my own stuff it is still the physical manifestation and compilation of my years of dedication and hard work. Art is the most amazing thing I know of. Nothing can compare. Seeing amazing art has legit left me speechless and gave me chills. nothing else have ever managed to do that.

    @someuser4166@someuser41667 ай бұрын

  • Once during summer holidays I was practicing sculpture = messing around with some clay I found. And came up with an idea of a short story about a sculptor who mades a female statur so beautiful, he desires for her to be alive. And later I discovered that story exists already. A Psyche if there ever was one !

    @Amira_Phoenix@Amira_Phoenix7 ай бұрын

  • I saw a faded copy of this in a thrift store 2 years ago and spent several minutes squinting and the glass, trying to decipher if the central figure is a man or a woman with her hair in a bun that was too hard to see from my angle. It's always stuck with me. I'm so happy to hear its story.

    @justwaiting5744@justwaiting57447 ай бұрын

  • The cherub, actually, is Eros, the Greek god of love, son of Aphrodite, who sent his magic arrows to imbue people with romantic love.

    @cardinalgin@cardinalgin7 ай бұрын

  • Ive also seen artists fall in love with their own "art" on twitter

    @Makkle4000@Makkle40007 ай бұрын

  • I’m not an artist connoisseur like my brother, but the way you described it with such elegance enraptured me. I had to finish the video.

    @jacobbaumgardner3406@jacobbaumgardner34067 ай бұрын

  • he fell to his own oc lmao i feel you bro

    @l8tralalt901@l8tralalt9017 ай бұрын

  • Isn't it common for an artist to fall in love with his art🤨, or a character he drew. Draw because I like it" that is the start of drawing

    @davehud2552@davehud25527 ай бұрын

  • as always your work is beautiful and breath taking

    @daviddyephotography@daviddyephotography7 ай бұрын

  • I am enamoured with this painting on an almost spiritual level in that I too feel much like Pygmalion in this sense. Thank you

    @illvminatvs3194@illvminatvs31947 ай бұрын

  • Your Channel is itself, a work of art. You’re a guide that breathes new life into the art community. ❤

    @Wyattinous@Wyattinous7 ай бұрын

  • I've fallen deeply into loving your videos, thank you for such insightful views into these fascinating works of art, never stop being your wonderful self 💜💜💜💜

    @incubuz69@incubuz697 ай бұрын

  • Me when I draw my own OC that is the embodiment of my IRL tastes:

    @rbsalmon7895@rbsalmon78957 ай бұрын

  • Amazing like always! You should have millions of subscribers. Your voice is so soothing and the information is so good and interesting.

    @superbere@superbere7 ай бұрын

  • A lovely treatment of this painting.

    @philipu150@philipu1507 ай бұрын

  • Modern version of "Fine I'll do it myself"

    @That_One_MF_0@That_One_MF_07 ай бұрын

  • Gerome is one the greatest unknown painters . I do love me some Jean-Leon Gerome

    @swordguy1243@swordguy12437 ай бұрын

  • Sundays are very difficult to me, but the Canvas video of the week brightens my day.

    @MightBeRasor@MightBeRasor7 ай бұрын

  • I felt the passion in this painting

    @sundarilamond3071@sundarilamond30717 ай бұрын

  • What a master class painting, ❤

    @SikandarKashfi@SikandarKashfi7 ай бұрын

  • Dang man I just want to actually like my own art one step at a time

    @camchameleon4151@camchameleon41517 ай бұрын

  • I love the way you put it in words! 🌼

    @MicaFarrierRheayan@MicaFarrierRheayan7 ай бұрын

  • Beautifuly explained. Thank you

    @sylvainst-pierre8725@sylvainst-pierre87257 ай бұрын

  • You can see this painting at The Met in NYC if you’re so inclined

    @1deplatt@1deplatt7 ай бұрын

  • So beautiful

    @katyb3869@katyb38697 ай бұрын

  • This is truly a good way to start the first of the month.

    @offbeatninja@offbeatninja7 ай бұрын

  • The passion and work you put into your videos is truly inspiring, I aspire to be so dedicated and in love with what I do in life as you are. Thank you for helping me rediscover my love for art and the history it holds, the words it speaks to the viewer and the eternal emotion it carries Keep up the good work 🤍

    @FioreAurora@FioreAurora7 ай бұрын

  • I watch this and myself when I see the pieces of art, I don't see Jean-Léon Gérôme's paintings as a expression of love for his own art, but an envy of that kind of love, he wanted to love his art in the same way, but couldn't, and thus was envious of Pygmalion's love and obsession for his creation, for Galatea

    @stephenross5586@stephenross5586Ай бұрын

  • Beautiful.

    @neilthomas8258@neilthomas82587 ай бұрын

  • Poor galatea, trapped with a raging misogynist who is conviced she literally owes him the air she breathes.

    @sigilsmistakes5000@sigilsmistakes50007 ай бұрын

    • You bp are subversive

      @vklnew9824@vklnew98247 ай бұрын

    • He sculpted her 💀the "misogynist" is just one variation of the story, its just a hunk of stone and marble, people making this way to weird. Bro just said "I hate women so much so Ima just make my own" 😂

      @jakeleo4518@jakeleo45187 ай бұрын

  • I have this painting on your thumbnail hanging in my master bedroom. I fell in love with it immediately. Thank you for your great analysis.

    @dianecostanza@dianecostanza7 ай бұрын

  • I felt like that like he did, when I saw a scripture, I really wanted to hug him.

    @SmileonSunflower316@SmileonSunflower3167 ай бұрын

  • gorgeous!

    @lindanorris2455@lindanorris2455Ай бұрын

  • Beautiful sculptures

    @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl7 ай бұрын

  • The movie Mannequin was based on the Pygmalion story.

    @baliyae@baliyae7 ай бұрын

  • This is pretty cool

    @johnonyango3166@johnonyango31667 ай бұрын

  • i can't tell you how weird it is that this painting is synchronistic to what is going on in my life

    @ariasmataleno2823@ariasmataleno28237 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist!

    @DoloresJNurss@DoloresJNurss7 ай бұрын

  • Utterly interesting!

    @ketamophinadze@ketamophinadze7 ай бұрын

  • As an "artist" who has eventually hated everything I ever made (you know, because of the way the vision and idea never materialize into the final art form), I could never relate to Pygmalion. I was going to mention that loving your own artwork seems akin to lonely masturbation, but that feels inappropriate and I don't know why.

    @stifledvoice@stifledvoice7 ай бұрын

    • I don't think it's inappropriate at all. I think it's insightful. Pygmalion retreated from the real world (real women) into an idealized fantasy. There is also a related feminist critique that you can level at the painting. Personally, I feel very ambivalent about the painting and it's theme. The profound love and beauty presented in the painting really resonate with me, but I also recognize that the situation presented is somewhat... concerning, in several respects.

      @ahobimo732@ahobimo7327 ай бұрын

  • We must stay focused brothers

    @tubsy.@tubsy.7 ай бұрын

  • you could imagine the sculpture version as the artist losing himself in the stone completely and entriely

    @maht0x@maht0x7 ай бұрын

    • Lost in the marble sauce

      @pigcatapult@pigcatapult7 ай бұрын

  • *PYGMALION = UNDERRATED SLOWDIVE ALBUM!* 👏

    @joerogan3079@joerogan30797 ай бұрын

  • Facinating! I was waiting on an explanation for the 2 heads with their mouths open directly below the cherub.

    @CrownMooseCostumes@CrownMooseCostumes6 ай бұрын

  • Basically an incel wishing his waifu was real, apparently the best new is forgotten old.

    @eve_______@eve_______7 ай бұрын

  • So cool how he showed Galetea turning from a marble sculpture to a person.

    @Jobe-13@Jobe-137 ай бұрын

  • Thanks!

    @cgautz@cgautz4 ай бұрын

    • What a way to start the year! Thank you so much!!

      @TheCanvasArtHistory@TheCanvasArtHistory4 ай бұрын

  • Passion ! Xxx

    @morriganwitch@morriganwitch7 ай бұрын

  • Beautiful art 😍🤩😊

    @jcwt_pdx@jcwt_pdx7 ай бұрын

  • _Every hentai artist's dream._

    @Synodalian@Synodalian7 ай бұрын

  • This is amazing....

    @littbitterst2328@littbitterst23287 ай бұрын

  • was about to sleep, but-

    @sufjan.stevens@sufjan.stevens7 ай бұрын

  • What do those masks on the shelf represent?

    @tectorgorch8698@tectorgorch86987 ай бұрын

  • I watch these vids to lower my bp and it works 👍👍

    @RA-nw4ww@RA-nw4ww7 ай бұрын

  • I wish this video lasted longer

    @kinglouie1545@kinglouie15457 ай бұрын

  • The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is disgustingly patriarchal. Here goes: Pygmalion is king of the island of Cyprus, as well as a gifted sculptor. He hates women because he disapproves of the Cyprus women’s mores: they reportedly engage in prostitution and witchcraft. So Pygmalion sculpts this perfect woman out of ivory, falls in love with her perfection and... you know the end. The interpretation is that Pygmalion shuns the women who behave with too much independence (prostitution and witchcraft, sounds familiar?), and can only fall in love with a creature entirely of his own making, hence perfect because he created it. The Greek mythology is not known to be big on feminism, I know.😂😂

    @myriamickx7969@myriamickx79697 ай бұрын

    • wtf, do i have to love whores and like dark magic now?

      @RaiLongLee@RaiLongLee7 ай бұрын

    • Interesting that shes sculpted out of ivory since its likened to whiteness, same with marble

      @tubthungusbychumbungus@tubthungusbychumbungus7 ай бұрын

    • @@heartmagnet7754 I’m pretty sure that’s just one of the many modern reimaginings of the story.

      @lordrefrigerator@lordrefrigerator7 ай бұрын

    • @@heartmagnet7754 Where does that come from?

      @myriamickx7969@myriamickx79697 ай бұрын

    • @@heartmagnet7754 that's a modern revenge smut written by one of you spiteful fossils.

      @vklnew9824@vklnew98247 ай бұрын

  • damn my name is Jean-Léon and you saying my name caught me off guard

    @jlmenard7688@jlmenard76887 ай бұрын

  • beautiful painting. but I think that there is more to the two cadaver heads that you see in the middle ground. wish that would have been talked about too.

    @sananajam5965@sananajam59657 ай бұрын

  • he gets itttttt

    @bigclitenergy@bigclitenergy7 ай бұрын

  • What is the name of classical piece that starts playing at 1.43?

    @bauketelgenhof4651@bauketelgenhof46517 ай бұрын

  • There is a musical artist who is kind of similar to this named Telepath, who smokes DMT to hallucinate so that he can meet this woman, Agia, who he loves and makes music with. You can even see the evolution in his music from his early works from 2013-2015, the first representation of Agia in 2016 with the album "A", and now to making music represented as made by both him and Agia. Incredibly interesting. I will say, his earlier works are much more compelling in sound than the newer works though

    @RondoRory@RondoRory7 ай бұрын

    • Oh that’s genuinely so stunning?? Is there anyway you can direct me to their music? I did find the album, however and I might have to agree just a little with the last quote

      @Biveyy@Biveyy7 ай бұрын

    • Interesting indeed

      @PaulAllPro@PaulAllPro7 ай бұрын

  • 🖤👏

    @JCarrera27@JCarrera277 ай бұрын

  • ❤

    @therainbow6467@therainbow64677 ай бұрын

  • Artista te medhej ❤❤❤❤❤

    @kontesha14@kontesha146 ай бұрын

  • This guy was ahead of his time lol

    @mosescamacho1245@mosescamacho12457 ай бұрын

  • wow

    @archaic1@archaic17 ай бұрын

  • An Artist Fell In Love With His Own Art is not unusual

    @timeWaster76@timeWaster767 ай бұрын

  • Literally me after drawing my 74829274th picture of Shane from Stardew Valley within a week

    @heyfella5217@heyfella52177 ай бұрын

  • guys i think he loves his art

    @ghostsghoul@ghostsghoul7 ай бұрын

    • HELP

      @kileaa@kileaa6 ай бұрын

    • sounds like he falls in love with his own daughter

      @sownlengoc@sownlengoc6 ай бұрын

  • So you're telling me that the rent-a-girlfriend author is gonna be a historical icon in the future?

    @SolracNexus@SolracNexus7 ай бұрын

  • I mean the cake do look good A~ hahaha

    @sagathekawaiikilla@sagathekawaiikilla7 ай бұрын

  • _(Looks at Waifu Body Pillow)_ "You know...Maybe someday"

    @shuukenji6585@shuukenji65857 ай бұрын

  • Man was down bad.

    @fugoventro9403@fugoventro94037 ай бұрын

  • love the youtube algorithmification of galatea

    @ConcreteAfterRain@ConcreteAfterRain7 ай бұрын

  • Wow 🤍

    @ijlosito@ijlosito7 ай бұрын

  • Waifus existed even in ancient times

    @cuevas8405@cuevas84057 ай бұрын

  • SHIVERRRSSSSSS

    @Hmmmmmmmmm....@Hmmmmmmmmm....6 ай бұрын

  • youtube algorithm knows i just finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray

    @Pesto_O@Pesto_O7 ай бұрын

  • whats the artist/painting at 1:31 ??

    @HelloImBoni@HelloImBoni7 ай бұрын

  • “cherub” 2:36 The word in English is pronounced with a _ch_ /tʃ/ sound (or _tch_ in French), not like the French word _chérubin._

    @jeff__w@jeff__w7 ай бұрын

  • Never trust someone to judge the art by an artist… there are no experts. Mark Twains most loved book by himself is his best book… period. Critics can argue all they want, but he is the best judge of his own work.

    @degalan2656@degalan26567 ай бұрын
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