I’m a senior in HS and every year the seniors have to choose a famous painting to recreate on a ceiling tile, and I chose Ophelia. The amount of detail on this painting is remarkable, and I’ve spent hours staring at it and I still find new hidden details! This is definitely my favorite painting so I’m glad I found this video talking about it’s history, so thank you!
Have you seen the original at the Tate Abby? It is large (76.2 cm × 111.8 cm or 30.0 in × 44.0 in) and impressive. In person you can clearly imagine just how much effort it took to create. And you might also enjoy the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a much earlier painter whose paintings have many hidden and even humorous details.
I think it's important to note the pain that Rossetti caused her as a lover through countless infidelities, as well as the fact that after she died he buried poems with her, and then dug up her grave a few years later to get them back out. He treated her very badly, and this treatment was one of, if not the main, cause of her laudanum overdose.
And thankfully as punishment he had a horrible death. "He sank into a morbid state" good. You can also say Siddal got revenge because the poems that he buried with her got backlash after publishing which the criticism made his health decline
I have always been disgusted by how most traditional art romanticizes and beautifies Ophelia's death. Her death was cruel and unjust (at least this is what I felt after reading the play) and I thought these paintings should paint the real, ugly death of women drowning in polluted rivers, instead of romanticizing being oppressed and women driven to suicide.
It's common in the olden days. Many artists drew that away to get fame and an audience. If they drew more graphical (not in a negative way, more like what you described it should be like), the audience wouldn't notice it or be disgusted by it.
I really like what you said. It's so true. There was a female artist if you look up: allbymyradself-rgfellows-rgfellows then you'll see her work. She did the REAL struggles of women, but was told by men to tone it down.
@@nicywicy I have often wondered why it is considered romantic to die of a broken heart? I don’t really consider that as suicide, but I suppose dying while young and beautiful, immortalised in an image elevates the idea from pure tragedy.
Thanks for all the details and description of this beautiful painting, and life of the famous red haired model of the Raphaelite’s artists. Elizabeth Siddal was Rossetti’s muse.
maybe it is. in such a way that you would be held still at the sight of a pale figure such as her. maybe its the way her eyes hold you in a cold way like a room held with past tragedies.
Not the most appropriate adornment for the wall of an elementary school. "Should we hang the alphabet animal poster?" "Nah, let's go with the suicide."
I watched the New Romantics when I was in my 20s, that show - it was everything at the time. Now I see it as adolescent, but it felt so big and complete at the time.
Now I know what inspired the famous Finnish band Negative to create the song Frozen To Loose It All for the music video. The video is just like this painting. I love Tate! ❤️💟💙
Lovely art and video, thankyou. Sadly tragic though for Elizabeth Siddal. A haunting example of life imitating art. But for her generosity to help a great artist, she lives on in his masterpiece.
I don’t like that the video is trying to say that Siddal was the one who wanted to marry later. Rossetti was ashamed of her origins because she was from a working class family and he was the one postponing the wedding. Also it’s very likely that she committed suicide as a result of depression and that it wasn’t an accident.
Did I just get read a paragraph from a romance, the descriptions were beautiful, the language genuinely really pulled me in. Beautiful work on this video.
As a working Life Drawing model, I can tell you that she did not hold that pose for hours. She would have been in and out of that tub many times. She may also have done some of the pose on a chaise lounge.
I'm a bit surprised at the mention that women had more trouble getting models for painting, you'd think it'd be easier for a woman painter to get female models, at least with their friends and relatives, was it an etiquette issue? Like what you mentioned about working women being looked down on.
A career as a well known female artist wasn't even considered as realistic back then, like the idea of it was laughable for many that believed men did everything better.
It wasnt appropriate to hire models for nudes and study the naked body. I dont know why but only for male artists it was considered okay to look at male and female naked bodies 🤷
We had the subject of nude painting at university and I learned that it was immoral for women to paint other women as nudes. They were not allowed to enter the hall with several men who were painting a naked woman. Sometimes there was also the phenomenon that women were given a cow to paint. In the 18th century, however, nude painting was a prerequisite for a successful career as an artist, which was one of the reasons why women had no chance to become artists. They were allowed as models, so to speak, but not as artists. Linda Nochlin has written a fascinating article about this, if you are interested in this topic. :)
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I've always live dthis painting yet I haven't read hamlet. I've only seen ut performed and then she was barely in it What a painting.. amazing. She is extremely beautiful whatve rthe standards of the day but this use of oil is just incredible to me. To paint a dress floating in water like that it's one I could stare at for hours
That’s not what happened, it took so long for her to get married because her lover was kind of a ladies man who even cheated on her With his other models.
I'm from the UK. I have a 84x60cm framed print of this painting. I think the picture is somewhat bland but it fills up blank wall space alongside my other pictures.
seems like the US corpse going under water and everyone singing songs floating down stream under Poppy influence and silver holding it up with air -eyes still open and hands open - insanity
“Ophelia” el ser humano, la modelo es más inspirador que el cuadro , claro el cuadro es bello pero la vida de una joven artista llena de ideas es opacada por una sociedad y olvidada por muchas generaciones, por un bello cuadro.
Art in Focus | The Real Ophelia | Tate. this a painting and this is...... a pot-belly... didn't they acquire their idea for their idea for the brotherhood via blake?
PARECE MUY INTERESANTE, PERO ESTA EN EXTRANJERO Y NO SE ENTIENDE NADA. ¿NO PODRIAN AL MENOS PONERLO CON SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL, PARA QUE PODAMOS ENTENDERLO TODOS?
Elizabeth is one of my heroines. She wrote and painted exquisitely, and she had so much depth and feeling and determination. So much went wrong for her, so much hurt and pain, but she will ALWAYS be a beacon of light for women artists…and our Ophelia❤️
Hamlet does not break up with Ophelia because he thinks she's impure. He just goes on a rant about how much he hates all women and tells her to join a nunnery.
Hi! How are you? In Korea/Seoul, the rainy season stopped for a while today. Looking at the clear sky, my mind was clear. I hope you have good health and good things on weekends and holidays. Thank you.
Could you mention the name of the artist at the center at 5:20? It is kinda shocking. But we have the same face. I stumbled on this video by curiosity. while i was busy processing Siddle's story, this image appeared leaving me awestruck. Jeez I'm oil painted holy shit whaaaaat. Ik It's unbelievable but just trust me on this. I have got to find the actual painting. Please mention the source when you get time, or anybody in the comment who knows. Thankyou! ✨
Hi! I don't know if this'll really help, but the work you're looking for appears to be titled 'Ophelias', and is the collaborative work of Rahi de Roy, Astha Patel, Pranshu Takore and Savitha Ravi (according to the credits of this video and the website of the Tate Museum). Platform-mag and Openclosemag have both written articles about the artistic process behind this piece.
I thought Ophelia killed herself after Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius behind a curtain Edit: YALL I just realised I read the re- make by Leon Garfield
I’m a senior in HS and every year the seniors have to choose a famous painting to recreate on a ceiling tile, and I chose Ophelia. The amount of detail on this painting is remarkable, and I’ve spent hours staring at it and I still find new hidden details! This is definitely my favorite painting so I’m glad I found this video talking about it’s history, so thank you!
Wow would love to see a pic of the tile!
@@gpg000 I actually just finished it today! I’m happy with it and if there was a way to share it I definitely would!
哈咯，我是中央美术学院的学生，交个朋友！☺️
交个朋友吧
Have you seen the original at the Tate Abby? It is large (76.2 cm × 111.8 cm or 30.0 in × 44.0 in) and impressive. In person you can clearly imagine just how much effort it took to create. And you might also enjoy the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a much earlier painter whose paintings have many hidden and even humorous details.
I think it's important to note the pain that Rossetti caused her as a lover through countless infidelities, as well as the fact that after she died he buried poems with her, and then dug up her grave a few years later to get them back out. He treated her very badly, and this treatment was one of, if not the main, cause of her laudanum overdose.
Yeah, not a complete story at all :/
And thankfully as punishment he had a horrible death. "He sank into a morbid state" good.
You can also say Siddal got revenge because the poems that he buried with her got backlash after publishing which the criticism made his health decline
Omg- who desecrates a grave???
Men 😡
@@Creative_2023 I’m so sorry to hear that. I would talk to the grounds keeper-
I saw this painting in Red Velvet “Feel My Rhythm”
This is one of the most beautiful paintings in the history in my opinion but I never really knew the backstory. Thank you for the video!
I have always been disgusted by how most traditional art romanticizes and beautifies Ophelia's death. Her death was cruel and unjust (at least this is what I felt after reading the play) and I thought these paintings should paint the real, ugly death of women drowning in polluted rivers, instead of romanticizing being oppressed and women driven to suicide.
It's common in the olden days. Many artists drew that away to get fame and an audience. If they drew more graphical (not in a negative way, more like what you described it should be like), the audience wouldn't notice it or be disgusted by it.
I think you should see from the perspective of the painters that day, not using today's standard.
@@hi-ve1cw Well said.
I really like what you said. It's so true. There was a female artist if you look up: allbymyradself-rgfellows-rgfellows then you'll see her work. She did the REAL struggles of women, but was told by men to tone it down.
@@nicywicy I have often wondered why it is considered romantic to die of a broken heart? I don’t really consider that as suicide, but I suppose dying while young and beautiful, immortalised in an image elevates the idea from pure tragedy.
Understanding more about the creation and history around this painting makes me appreciate it more. Great video!
Red Velvet did a reference in "Feel My Rhythm" MV
Thanks for all the details and description of this beautiful painting, and life of the famous red haired model of the Raphaelite’s artists. Elizabeth Siddal was Rossetti’s muse.
What a beautifully captured moment in art history. Thank you.
I’ve seen this master work of art, unbelievably amazing. I spent an easy hour gazing at every detail
This painting used to be on the wall in my primary school. Every single child thought it was creepy and a 'haunted' painting.
maybe it is. in such a way that you would be held still at the sight of a pale figure such as her. maybe its the way her eyes hold you in a cold way like a room held with past tragedies.
Not the most appropriate adornment for the wall of an elementary school.
"Should we hang the alphabet animal poster?"
"Nah, let's go with the suicide."
@@oliviamartini9700 exactly!
@@oliviamartini9700 that too
I always thought Ophelia needed comforting and protecting
Thanks!so happy to have access to this beautiful world of arts while I’m under lockdown in Shanghai .
I hope your okay. I heard the lockdown there was very cruel.
@@empandora123 Thanks!finally got from from 1 June
It's fine! Are you okay?
I watched the New Romantics when I was in my 20s, that show - it was everything at the time. Now I see it as adolescent, but it felt so big and complete at the time.
I didn't think about this painting much until I saw it in person. I've been in love with it ever since.
Loving all of this, great work Tate
So that’s why joy(from RV) was laying like that
ok red velvet feel my rhythm
S❤IMPLY GORGEOUS!
Now I know what inspired the famous Finnish band Negative to create the song Frozen To Loose It All for the music video. The video is just like this painting. I love Tate! ❤️💟💙
I love this - it's a very different output from Tate. Beautiful snippet into history! More, please! :D
The Art Curious Podcast with Jennifer Dasal just did an episode on Elizabeth Siddal if you’re interested in learning more about her!
Lovely art and video, thankyou. Sadly tragic though for Elizabeth Siddal. A haunting example of life imitating art. But for her generosity to help a great artist, she lives on in his masterpiece.
I don’t like that the video is trying to say that Siddal was the one who wanted to marry later. Rossetti was ashamed of her origins because she was from a working class family and he was the one postponing the wedding. Also it’s very likely that she committed suicide as a result of depression and that it wasn’t an accident.
Very informative and enjoyable to watch!
it's beautifully haunting :(
❤
Impressive! When Tate lent it to MAP (Museum of Art Pudong) as opening exhibition last year, I finally got a chance to watch it closely.
so that's where it was!! i went to the tate last year to see it and also the lady of shalott, and both were missing! glad you got to view it :)
Did I just get read a paragraph from a romance, the descriptions were beautiful, the language genuinely really pulled me in. Beautiful work on this video.
As a working Life Drawing model, I can tell you that she did not hold that pose for hours. She would have been in and out of that tub many times. She may also have done some of the pose on a chaise lounge.
The Pre-Raphaelites were obsessed with painting what they saw. so no chaise lounge for poor Lizzie.
That painting is increadable...
Millais lived for few years on the Gloucester Road SW3 London.
I live very close to where the great Preraphialite was born...every time i walk past i think of... OPHELIA...
I'm a bit surprised at the mention that women had more trouble getting models for painting, you'd think it'd be easier for a woman painter to get female models, at least with their friends and relatives, was it an etiquette issue? Like what you mentioned about working women being looked down on.
A career as a well known female artist wasn't even considered as realistic back then, like the idea of it was laughable for many that believed men did everything better.
It wasnt appropriate to hire models for nudes and study the naked body. I dont know why but only for male artists it was considered okay to look at male and female naked bodies 🤷
We had the subject of nude painting at university and I learned that it was immoral for women to paint other women as nudes. They were not allowed to enter the hall with several men who were painting a naked woman. Sometimes there was also the phenomenon that women were given a cow to paint. In the 18th century, however, nude painting was a prerequisite for a successful career as an artist, which was one of the reasons why women had no chance to become artists. They were allowed as models, so to speak, but not as artists.
Linda Nochlin has written a fascinating article about this, if you are interested in this topic. :)
I've always loved that name . 🌹💗💓
I wonder if the music video for Nick Cave's song Where the Wild Roses Grow was inspired by this painting?
It is.
No, that is Joy
No they just recreated it for the mv
Hi! How are you?
There has been no rain in Korea/Seoul this year. With this severe drought, I'm worried about farming and many other things.
I hope you have good health and good things for the rest of the week. Thank you very much.
0 rain?? Not even a little?
And now this week has been very rainy!
@@adeponol yep!
Who does the narration find her voice really soothing perfect asmr voice
Complimenti . Il video è una gioia per gli occhi .
I've always live dthis painting yet I haven't read hamlet. I've only seen ut performed and then she was barely in it
What a painting.. amazing. She is extremely beautiful whatve rthe standards of the day but this use of oil is just incredible to me. To paint a dress floating in water like that it's one I could stare at for hours
Recently read a Contemporary book entitled the ophelia girls by Jane Healey and thoroughly loved it
Wonderful!
dope.
this is beautiful
It's like outdoor living for that woman in the painting. I wonder men today are still inspired by this painting.
🖤
the painting used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid
who is the photographer? it looks beautiful
Oh Ophelia , you’ve been on my mind girl since the flood .
That’s not what happened, it took so long for her to get married because her lover was kind of a ladies man who even cheated on her With his other models.
My daughter is called Ophelia
I'm from the UK. I have a 84x60cm framed print of this painting. I think the picture is somewhat bland but it fills up blank wall space alongside my other pictures.
Dang
Oh, Ophelia! You been on my mind, girl, since the flood!
I’m getting wild roses by nick cave and Kylie Minogue vibes… I wonder if they based the video off that painting?
Who’s here because of Red Velvet
Feelya tater
Molly Jean everett
A pearls before swine album cover
reminds me a lot of bladee tbh
i’m just thinking abt brad pitt in one pic of his recent photoshoot
Imagine having the luxury of sitting by a river for 5 months to finish one project in this day and age lol
seems like the US corpse going under water and everyone singing songs floating down stream under Poppy influence and silver holding it up with air -eyes still open and hands open - insanity
Rodriguez Gary Martinez Robert Allen Jeffrey
i dont think they died for love. i cant see love in any of this.
“Ophelia” el ser humano, la modelo es más inspirador que el cuadro , claro el cuadro es bello pero la vida de una joven artista llena de ideas es opacada por una sociedad y olvidada por muchas generaciones, por un bello cuadro.
Sophie Turner should play Lizzie Siddal in a movie.
Art in Focus | The Real Ophelia | Tate. this a painting and this is...... a pot-belly... didn't they acquire their idea for their idea for the brotherhood via blake?
Ophelia is actually Joy from Red Velvet u flops
Stap gurl! Its embarrassing that u called the channel flops - from another luvie
Please stop go watch Kim lip and stop saying stupid things
@@chilllllllllll you when joke: 😿🙀☠️
PARECE MUY INTERESANTE, PERO ESTA EN EXTRANJERO Y NO SE ENTIENDE NADA. ¿NO PODRIAN AL MENOS PONERLO CON SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL, PARA QUE PODAMOS ENTENDERLO TODOS?
Very poor quality vid from the Tate. How standards have plummeted!
This shit is so pretentious. It's the one thing I don't like about studying fine art.
cry about it
What’s pretentious? The painting? The story of the model? The way the story is told?
@@ValdemarDeMatos Everything you said but the painting itself.
@@TheDropOfTheDay Ok… on the other hand, I enjoyed everything 😊🤷♂️
@@TheDropOfTheDay the backstory of the model is rather important to enjoying the painting, I think. And it’s interesting to know
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What a shame this isn't an exhibition. What a fascinating topic.
Elizabeth is one of my heroines. She wrote and painted exquisitely, and she had so much depth and feeling and determination. So much went wrong for her, so much hurt and pain, but she will ALWAYS be a beacon of light for women artists…and our Ophelia❤️
A moving tribute to a beautiful woman.
Red Velvet? Anyone?
feel my rhythm!
Yes SS
come with mee~
A brilliant portrayal of such an iconic painting - thank you 😊
damn she just like me fr
My favorite paiting by far!!! Thank you for sharing this tale =)
Sweet Ophelia!
When young blood escapes
Vows that break
Go up, up away
- Zella Day ❤️
Hamlet does not break up with Ophelia because he thinks she's impure. He just goes on a rant about how much he hates all women and tells her to join a nunnery.
Hi! How are you?
In Korea/Seoul, the rainy season stopped for a while today. Looking at the clear sky, my mind was clear.
I hope you have good health and good things on weekends and holidays. Thank you.
good museum. pretty sure my dad took a mug from your restaurant
My favorite painting of all time 😍ain’t she beautiful
Да, потрясающая! Чудесная, так хороша! Я несколько раз ходил на выставку в Москве, чтобы смотреть..
~ o-opheliaaa youve been on my mind girl since the floooddd ~~~ (and for some reason that song jusf gives me nostalgia?)
Could you mention the name of the artist at the center at 5:20?
It is kinda shocking. But we have the same face. I stumbled on this video by curiosity. while i was busy processing Siddle's story, this image appeared leaving me awestruck.
Jeez I'm oil painted holy shit whaaaaat.
Ik It's unbelievable but just trust me on this. I have got to find the actual painting.
Please mention the source when you get time, or anybody in the comment who knows.
Thankyou! ✨
Hi! I don't know if this'll really help, but the work you're looking for appears to be titled 'Ophelias', and is the collaborative work of Rahi de Roy, Astha Patel, Pranshu Takore and Savitha Ravi (according to the credits of this video and the website of the Tate Museum). Platform-mag and Openclosemag have both written articles about the artistic process behind this piece.
I've never heard of this ever! I love this! It's a very deep symbolic story! Very interesting
3:17 Anyone knows the painting title?
Джордж Фредерик Уоттс «Найдена утонувшей», 1850 год
@@ИгорьЛ-в-ы5ж Thanks! Had to translate it but helped big time! Title is Found Drowned, GF Watts, c. 1850
One would think that a frame with a curved top be a better option.
You sound like Caitlyn Kiramman
from Arcane.
was at the Hogsmill River in Surrey yesterday Looking for Ophelia pool..
This painting was recently just recreated in a music video called “Feel My Rhythm” by Red Velvet, along with other famous paintings
Who cares bout that
@@wein7107 apparently 12 people🤷♂️
@@wein7107 so?
@@wein7107 you cared enough to reply
@@wein7107 Many do
What is that painting at 5:27 in the lower right corner?
The ears in the water hurts me 😭😭😭
after a 13 year gap I took a photo with the painting today at Tate Britain. I love this painting
Lovely explanation.
I thought Ophelia killed herself after Hamlet accidentally killed Polonius behind a curtain
Edit: YALL I just realised I read the re- make by Leon Garfield
Thanks for the video Ophelia - great work!