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Ancient Greek version of marrying your anime wifu.

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

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.

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…

Dude's a Rule 34 artist

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

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

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

The YT algorithm is pushing you quite hard XD

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- ...

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

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?

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

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.

Pygamlion brings art to life through his love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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

he fell to his own oc lmao i feel you bro

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 💜💜💜💜

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

as always your work is beautiful and breath taking

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

A lovely treatment of this painting.

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

I felt the passion in this painting

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

What a master class painting, ❤

I love the way you put it in words! 🌼

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

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

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 🤍

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

Beautifuly explained. Thank you

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.

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

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

So beautiful

Beautiful sculptures

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

gorgeous!

Beautiful.

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

This is pretty cool

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

Beautiful art 😍🤩😊

Utterly interesting!

The movie Mannequin was based on the Pygmalion story.

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

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

Passion ! Xxx

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.

We must stay focused brothers

Thanks!

This is amazing....

What do those masks on the shelf represent?

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

I wish this video lasted longer

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.

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

he gets itttttt

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

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

_Every hentai artist's dream._

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*PYGMALION = UNDERRATED SLOWDIVE ALBUM!* 👏

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

This guy was ahead of his time lol

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

was about to sleep, but-

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.😂😂

Artista te medhej ❤❤❤❤❤

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

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

wow

guys i think he loves his art

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

Thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist!

love the youtube algorithmification of galatea

Man was down bad.

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

I mean the cake do look good A~ hahaha

Wow 🤍

"Aphrodite, Aphrodite, Aphroditeeeeee!"

SHIVERRRSSSSSS

Waifus existed even in ancient times

Its like a drug dealer testing their own product.

God love syou. God bless you all!❤