This Painting Held A Chilling Secret
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The reveal of the x-ray absolutely floored me. I had the same interpretation at the start, purely from the farmers expressions and pose, and the overall tone of the picture. Of course, this interpretation began to wade as you went into the history of the angelus, and i kinda forgot about it until the Dali segment. It's just wild to me just how much art can really communicate through its aesthetics alone, being able to still express the underlying sentiment through sheer *atmosphere* ...
I had the exact same thought when he first showed the painting. The way art communicates things to us that can't be seen by human eyes, but felt by the soul is astounding.
I didn't get any sense of what the painting was "really about" but I did get a sense that the picture of more of mourning than of praying for prosperity.
The fact that several people all came to this conclusion AND *_ONLY_* the box was different further proves that it was a burial. Since only the box was different all of the poses, shading, etc likely remained constant, so if those poses and other subconscious ques lead you to believe that it is about a burial, then it lines up perfectly. It's kind of like a double blind study, you don't "know" if your getting the real medicine, so if you do suddenly improve dramatically it's evidence that the medicine works. (of course, this analogy isn't perfect, since there really isn't a way to placebo yourself into finding the true original meaning of a painting)
@@robonator2945 i can definitely see it, would as a principle refute there ever being a 'true original meaning' to any piece of art, but i still really like the connection to double-blind studies. It definitely provides some key insights into the specifics of how it works as you yourself mentioned.
Same thing here. I didn’t think anything else made much sense .
I am not usually stirred up emotionally by art like paintings, but the moment I saw this one I immediately felt the grief of the subjects welling up inside of me. Dealing with painful losses that are sudden, even as recently as a month ago but it being a recurring theme throughout my adolescence and adulthood losing people tragically or suddenly. The way they are holding themselves up is the way I have felt, it is an unmistakable gesture of mourning. I would like to own a copy of this painting.
That was a rollercoaster. Amazing work as always.
Thanks for taking the time to watch! I'll have another video out by the end of the week. It's a doozy. Be sure to tune in.
@@austinmcconnell Cool. I love doozies.
This is amazing. I have this on my wall. Love it dearly.
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this painting. There is so much emotion there.
Truly chilling, when I first saw the blurry image of the painting on the wall, I immediately felt it had a dark, somber tone, and upon first seeing it in full a few moments later, before my brain finished taking in all the details, I immediately assumed the basket was a crib, and the parents were mourning a lost child. I can see where Dali's suspicions came from.
woaw, that was a chilling find, a child berried in the picture.
And really that dose make that a picture showcasing one of the normal and grim sides for the common life back in the day.
I can see him willfully painting over the coffen, a really symbolic thing. What a picture.
i had a miscarriage a couple weeks ago and burrid my still-born daughter. i was startled when you said they were praying over a bag of potatoes.i was sure that was the expression of someone losing a child. i guess i was right.
Sorry to hear that, I can only imagine what that must have been like. May she Rest in Peace
I’m very sorry
My heart goes out to you, I had to bury my week old son who was born premature back in 1985, the pain does fade after a while, I guess everything happens for a reason even if we don't understand why.
Sending hugs and empathy 🤗 sorry about the loss of the little one.
Wow. Hopes you are ok.
I saw grieving parents immediately. I think it’s the way the father is holding his hat that conveys grief to my subconscious. There is something about that pose, that shape, that is common to man when in grief.
Austin thank you. You reminded us of our humanity .Both of our strengths and weaknesses . That is not easy to do in this modern world. Thank you.
Dali was brilliant in his way and I suspect that Dali's sensitivity felt the passion Millet brought to this couple - the woman's head is bowed low, close to her hands, the man clutches his hat with such commitment. Paintings without passion are not art - they are merely images and it is the very fortunate few who can appreciate the difference. Additionally, mastery of technique in ANYTHING is the fluidity captured so a painting with no life is no painting at all....................................how lucky we, humans, are to have humans in or midst who are, and were visual artists. Such is genius!
Wow, that's insanely beautiful (talking about everything the painting, the story, and the video itself lol). Somehow I got the sense of what was hidden behind the seeable layers. I had never heard of or seen the artist or painting before, but when I first glanced it here my immediate first thought was that a baby was in the basket and the 2 figures were parents in dismay or in an act of burial. I think that the inability to hide the initial intended somber tone of the work just demonstrates his skill imo, in his ability to depict and communicate such powerful emotion so well within the atmosphere he created on a canvas. I'm a bit upset that he didn't get all his due roses in life because his paintings are really remarkable with a lot of character, at least to me, but I'm aware that's not at all an uncommon case in the art industry. But just want to take this time to thank you again Austin for bringing a story such as this to light. This channel is truly amazing and I love just earning all the heartfelt random things that come up every now and again that would have been unlikely to come across in my life otherwise
When I was a child and first saw that painting, I thought the parents were upset because the potatoes in the basket was all they could harvest (the rest having gone bad,) so that meant that they were going to starve. I suppose I was on the right track, as far as the grim subject matter went, even if I wasn't wholly accurate.
You might have been. Around the time this was painted, a terrible blight destroyed the potato crops in Ireland and Western Europe. The phytophthora infestans infection. If these farmers had just dug up some potatoes and found their crop infected, it would have meant financial and personal ruin
Dear Austin,
Thank you for this,
Thank you for sharing this beautiful, meaning-filled artwork to the eyes and hearts and souls that may never have had the chance.
The chance, to see it, to feel it, absorb it.
You do a true service by bringing the forgotten, the overlooked to a new generation.
Thank you Austin.
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The painting does come across as more of a profound loss instead of thankfulness for a crop. Very interesting telling of the story.
Ernest T. Bass is one of those memorable tv characters who had only a handful of appearances. John DeLancie as Q on Star Trek TNG is another one.
What a wonderful way to give homage to a great show, a gorgeous painting and an incredible story! Extremely well done, Sir!
Yes! 🙌🏼
Very interesting. My mother always loved the Gleaners. Didn't know it was part of a triptych.
When i see the painting, i see two farmers in grief over a failed harvest just before the winter months.
I always liked how Opies PJ’s matched the wall paper in his room.
That's fascinating. It also shows how much of a genius Dali was.
Weird that I'm watching this on TV and this pops up on my phones UA-cam. They're definitely listening!
Great video!! I watch it because I’m a fan of the Andy Griffith Show but had no idea the story that would come out of painting, wow! Great job to on the editing and music selection. Great film productivity. It had me hooked.
Thank you for this. I have never heard this before. I will be getting a print of this painting now. My wife and I are devout Catholics and pray the Angelus three time everyday. Also, we lost our youngest child to cancer at a very young age years ago. Our faith is unshaken but grief has been with us ever since and a heavy burden at times. Having this painting in our home with its double meaning will be a consolation to us I think.
God bless you
Sadly catholic doctrine isn’t Biblical
A brilliant artist no doubt. Great story.
Thank you for the information about the painting. I have a print of the Angelus.i never even knew the name of it or who painted the original.
It looks like a baby basket from that time era as well. Not a common potato basket which typically don't have that shape.
I have this hanging in my house and never knew there was a basket of potatoes in it. I honestly thought the painting meant two people praying for a bountiful crop. Oh well, I'll keep that thought anyway and discount the burial.
6:38 Wow. The upscaling is immaculate in this Episode of a 1950’s sitcom. I can see what that guy smells like.
Absolutely fascinating. I love the way you put this together. Props to you.
"A Picture is worth a thousand words" ??? Nah, a picture never stops speaking. It is infinite, even inexhaustible.
it's an analogy. the bad harvest leads to the death of the child. And also the food is the future in the short term and the child is the future in the long term. No matter which version you look at, it's still a portrait of death. Sounds like he gave it a softer surface level meaning but it still means what it means, as evidenced by the fact that someone figured it out just by looking at it. It's a very powerful piece. Andy Griffith looks at the past in a very nostalgic idealistic way. I think the producers and set designers knew that and give some imagery of the untold hardship of rural life in subtle ways, like this.
Interesting. Either way, it's been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember. It still hangs in the "piano room" of my childhood home
Imagine having that kind of pull, that you can request for some masterpiece to be x-rayed!?!
When the French get involved you know it's gonna be fucked up.
Very interesting! Oddly enough, when I first saw the painting I also thought they were praying over a dead child from the way they were positioned.
That was interesting, and that's about all I can ever hope for on UA-cam.
I am glad that I was able to see what Dali saw before being told. Tho I guess I was primed to by the title.
On hindsight, we realize, as did Dalí originally, that, “who bows so deeply for a daily prayer?” The devout pray fervently, & consistently, sure. But, the painting depicts a more urgent scene. The question would be, how long did it take for SD to be struck with the revelation to the point where he requested that action be taken? Instantly, or over a period of time of contemplation…? The narration, here, suggests both are true.
1:50 i have one hanging in my room guess i have to watch the whole video now
Brilliant! An enigma!
He was a great Person !!!
Looking at the pose of the man holding his hat, I did not get the sense that the potato story was correct. Also the praying pose of the woman seems to be more of a sad prayer pose rather than a "Thank you for this food" type prayer. The color scheme tells a lot too. The unveiling of the layers to reveal what was originally painted seems to fit the energy of the figures, especially with the church visible. Amazing find by Salvador. Glad he went with his hunch. Thanks for sharing this story.
that was quite the journey you took me on
Awesome video on every level well done thank you
Well, that was insanely interesting and well put together.
I thank you for this video. I was riveted.
The first thing I thought was parents praying over a child in the basket 🧺.
Well done!
Wow what a story.
I really enjoyed this fascinating piece of work. I don't understand how a little fewer than only one in every five views of this video got a "like."
I knew I saw the same thing that was discovered under the painting
0:32. Ight. So nobody is gonna say it. That middle picture. His belt and pants match up so perfectly with that little ledge behind him. I deadass thought the dude was cut in half and his torso was hovering above his legs.
Thanks
It didn't take Columbo to work out they was praying over a death and not 10lb of King Edwards Spuds..
People see what they want to see, the truth is often hidden but still there.
I've always been a fan of his painting of The gleaners. It's beautiful and represents the necessities of poverty especially in that age. The poverty is always just poverty no matter what the age.
Theory: He didn't so much "change the subject of the painting", rather he just made it more subtle and, perhaps, more disturbing. Rather than a coffin, the dead child is... in that basket you can clearly see in the finished work. The family is too poor to afford a proper coffin, and the child is small enough to fit in the basket, suggesting it died very young.
The home interior company divided this picture & sold it as 2 pictures.mom had both hanging on her wall
Awesome work I'm impressed and I've subscribed 🤘🤓
Well people do like to redecorate now and then
The Context of this would be intresting if i was irish Praying For The potatos Gone bad
Hairs on my arms are up right now: not only because of Dali was right but also because thats exactly what I saw in the painting as soon as I saw it
You can disbelief me but its f*** up
I believe you. I got the same feeling
Boy are you overthinking this. Ever work in set decoration/props on a movie, film or a stage play? They grab what they have available to give the set a balanced look that the director is happy with. I guarantee this was used because it was just there and available, and for no other reason.
Chills
And I learned something.
I have another one for you.
Has anyone else noticed in earlier episodes there's only one window?
Then all of a sudden another front window appears.
Wow.
Such a well made video. Kept me captivated. Guess what I clicked? 😁😁
5:20 me too tbh.
Looking at the stone fireplace my opinion it's plaster not natural stone
They looked sad to me and I actually expected a baby instead of potatoes to be in the basket..
Frankly it looks like they are mourning. The potato’s really threw me off. It’s a sad painting
Is that Adam Driver @2:12?
So his wife had a touch of the consumptions!!!
💙
There’s a similarly haunting overpainting found with Breugel’s ‘Massacre of The Innocents’. The artist depicted the biblical story of Herod’s order to kill all infants in the area of Bethlehem, but rather than the ancient Middle-East he set the scene in his own contemporary Netherlands.
However a few decades after Bruegel’s death the Holy Roman Emperor ordered the scene overpainted to eliminate the subject of dead and dying children. They were replaced with livestock and produce.
At a glance the painting looks like a typical Bruegel, if not quite a jolly scene then one of no worse than plunder and mischief. But as you look closer the more disturbing it becomes. A woman wails in horror because a soldier is stabbing the jug she clutches; another stands aghast over some meats and cheese lying in the snow; a couple offer their daughter to soldiers instead of a large bird; empty bundles of rags are torn from women’s arms.
The overpainting gives a surreal horror to the painting that is arguably more haunting and upsetting than the direct depiction of the massacre.
Thank you for such an interesting and informative art history comment! I feel as of I've practically seen it already from your well written narrative.
But now I do hope that I can manage to see this intriguing piece of art online.
The overpainting is a kind of crime against humanity. Alike in spirit to the slaughter of innocents, if not in magnitude.
wow, that is so haunting. i just looked it up and you're absolutely right. simply surreal
How fascinating! I had no idea and I absolutely love Bruegel. Thank you for sharing.
I just looked it up and in the very bottom left corner, you can see a baby's head nestled beneath its mother as she flees partially out of frame. They missed one. At a cursory glance, it actually just seemed like a buxom woman's breast, but the rest of the piece lacks any sensuality, so when zooming in drastically, it became a very obvious baby's head.
I always wonder where your process on a video like this starts. Were you aware of the painting, in general, but not the history? Were you casually watching Andy Griffith? Was someone talking about changes in set dressing and you went looking for examples? Etc, etc. Your videos seem so random, but they always have this strangely valuable through line that seem impossible to plan. Every video appears to be a magically profound accident.
Seems like it captures the feeling of a Wikipedia spiral or something.
Coincidentally I had nearly that exact thought. Did Austin just notice that painting randomly while doing a AGS binge and started researching it?
The painting's story was going around on tiktok a little while ago, he probably heard about it there
im wondering the same thing! i hope he replies.
Hi, MeTV wrote an article about this a few years ago. I'm guessing he seen the article at some point.
Honestly my first impression was parents mourning a child. It’s so deeply captured. Beautiful and haunting work of art.
Plus the basket doesn't look like potato baskets from that era it does in fact look like a baby basket from then and even by modern standards.
Perhaps he left a hint to it's true meaning by using the basket as a clue. If you do an image search of potato baskets from that era they are mostly square with handles on the side made out of metal or woven. Baby baskets back then looked like the one in the painting.
Even today you see baby baskets like that.
But why next to a fence on farmland? That seems odd no matter how poor they might be!
X-raying vintage paintings is so freaking cool. It almost feels wrong like we are uncovering secrets the artist never intended us to see. But the curiosity and pursuit of knowledge far outweighs that feeling for me. We finally get to know the artists unfiltered and uncensored intent hidden by layers of paint.
This is why digital art is the way to go 😂
@@Pikm4n Nah, digital art has their place and so does physical ones.
beam yeyeah I know, I just meant for the particular reason of not wanting your art xrayed
@@Pikm4n haha yes I'll keep that in mind. Now no one can uncover my secrets
@@Pikm4n I found your PSD, I know about your mess of layers!
Your video came across my March 12 feed today my 74 birthday. This was a beautiful story. Having lost my daughter to leukemia when she was only seven. I am profoundly moved by this painting. Thank You I grew up watching Andy every week and somehow this gives me comfort. A mother never truly recovers. Sincerely, Meredith’s Mother
We see our loved ones in Heaven again. Never forget the love that Jesus Christ feels for you.
my Name Jeff
@@beef2cho hahaha 😐
Wishing you well, old bird!
I could definitely sense what the painting was. I didn't necessarily get the specifics, but...wow.
Yeah, at first glance I was sure there was a somber feeling in the painting. My interpretation was that they were nearly starving peasants, praying that this meager harvest would be enough to get them through the winter.
When I saw it I instantly thought the basket was for a child and noticed it didn’t have one in it. Didn’t notice the potatoes so I thought maybe it was parents burying their child. Wild that that’s what it was.
Spoilers
@@gotrejo Sorry, will edit
Same
This painting and Salvador Dali's recognition of mournfulness rather than hopeful prayer is the heart of truly recognizing great masterpieces. It takes a special gift to see the painter's actual meaning and emotions expressed in the art. For it is there for all to see.
Winston Churchill was an avid painter. A good one. He painted many paintings of a pond he put in his backyard. A great impressionist painter Graham Sutherland was commissioned to paint Winston Churchill's portrait. He studied Churchill and upon looking at his pond paintings, he saw them as dark and sad. Churchill of course denied sadness as a motivation when painting the pond. With encouragement from Sutherland, they both explored the paintings of the pond and together they discovered Churchill had built the pond just after his baby daughter Marigold was born. She passed away at the age of 3 of a throat infection. Churchill had connected the pond he made for Marigold with her, and of her loss. So he would think of her while painting the pond and his sorrow over her loss came out in the paintings. Art moves us because it speaks. It often lays bare the artist making the art whether the artist knows it or not.
True story briefly touched on in the series, "The Crown".
Malay's "Angeles" was changed by him perhaps to make it a more sellable painting, but he could not hide the sadness expressed by him. Not at least from Salvador Dali.
Hear hear, my sentiments exactly!
@Brent Testerman Isn't art in all its expressions from all kinds of people such a wonderful study of humanity? I find it truly beautiful, fascinating and an amazing insite to feelings, emotions and ways of thinking. Universal across many cultures. How does one paint sadness, joy, anger, love? What we see is what we paint. How are feelings placed in the brush strokes? And yet they are there. Its incredible.
@@KellysAdventures305 Indeed, m'lady.
Millet not Malay
The artist in this topjc is Corbet and not what ever na e they used in the posting.
The school reflected in Courbet`s paintings is Realism. This artistic philosophy is not concerened with say a photographic representation. Rather it was Corbet's intention to show life as it was for European peasants. This movement was founded by Corbet who believed that modern artist stopped being on the cutting edge but had all become self-serving.
This was shocking to the structured art machinery in the Salon establishment. The peasant class did not commissioning portraits. Corbet believed paitnting life as it existed in fact was more worthy than something that matches the couch.
When i look at this painting i think about periods of failed crops and hunger. The pair have stopped working for the call of the bells and praying for a good crop. To a member of the aristocratic class Corbet's paintings pulled back the screen to show life that was unknowable and was harshly rejected because in recognizing the importance of the subject and a flash of responsability? Of corse! But can it match the couch?
What I love is we are all right.
Haunting. I know the title of the video primed me for it, but Dalí's suspicion of the painting was my first impression of it as well.
I thought something was off about it, I was thinking "it doesn't look like praying, but morning" and I had no idea why untill he showed the x-ray.
It wasn't until a close up of the basket that I saw potatoes. It looked like a bassinet to me at first
@@Dysiode I intially thought the potatoes was a child, and maybe the outline of the coffin tricks your brain, but I swear I can see the cracks of the paint forming the rectangle of the coffin.
@@gregoryent yeah i originally thought the basket had a baby my brain only half thought of the idea of it being a dead one
I think we have to take in mind that we are advanced in references and content. Looking at Dali appearances on tv one can't see anything special until you realise that we are looking we modern eyes a man that liked to make an spectacle of his persona on the much contrive media of the time. So he catched the way you do to now.
true story- i’m a teen and my parents have a copy of this painting in our house. i seriously always thought the same thing. my parents always said i was being “dramatic” and it’s not that. now ima go prove that i was right. thanks austin.
Report back! Tell us how it goes!
@@erraticonteuse i just did, my mom was surprised and i could see her pondering whether to take it down or not 😂😂😂
Commenting to be aware of a follow up just in case
What are the odds lol
@@shards-of-glass-man me too
It's interesting, and speaks to Millet's talent - I honestly hadn't seen that painting before (the only one I recall ever seeing before was "The Sower"), but parents burying an infant was precisely what I first thought it was, until the close-up of it. Imagine my surprised-yet-not-surprised reaction when you revealed that's exactly what it originally was...
Same, I assumed the basket contained a stillborn baby based on the posture of the man and woman alone. The impression was so strong that when the close-up revealed the basket was full of potatoes, the contents of wheelbarrow behind them suddenly started looking like the body of a child wrapped in a makeshift shroud. I’m genuinely surprised many people apparently thought the couple was just praying over potatoes when just a brief glimpse of them had my brain looking everywhere for the deceased child their poses told me was there.
Same here - I thought an infant was in the basket. Something about their pose looked sorrowful rather than prayerful. Pretty amazing of Millet to capture the mood.
@@boston_octopus It really is, it’s rare to find a painting so evocative, even among masters. Imagine being able to tell at a glance exactly what the Mona Lisa was feeling.
Is it weird to say that that was my first impression of it too? With no context of the Angelus and the way the basket of potatoes made me think of a cradle, my mind went to parents who lost a child. The overall atmosphere is grim, and solemn enough that it just felt like a more accurate description of the painting's story.
yes i felt that tto
Yeah, until he said they were potatoes, I assumed the basket had a child. It just feels like that's what it is.
Yes, my first thought too.
Weird, me too! And I had never seen the painting before in my life.
Ditto. The artist did such a great job that even when altered most of us still get it.
Mark Twain wrote an interesting short story called "Is He Living Or Is He Dead?" which features Millet and the Angelus. It is about four poor artists who are roommates. They're down to their last scraps, lamenting the fact that an artist never seems to make it big until after he's dead. One of them comes up with the idea of how to get that type of money now. The idea is that one of them has to die. Millet is the one selected, however he doesn't actually die. The plan is for him to pile up stock while the other three go out and sell it, dropping hints that his health is poor. When the time is right, he will "die" but really he will change his identity and disappear. And so they put this plan into action. I forget how much The Angelus sells for in the story, but the secondary narrator (one of the artists who tells the story to the first narrator) says that Millet would have sold it for a pork chop. Quite a good story.
I thought Calvin Coolidge wrote that.
Quite a telling take on the human condition.
“The Education of Ernest T Bass” is a really good episode of The Andy Griffith Show. “Man in a Hurry” is the very best. Interesting choose to use the show as a jumping off point to talking about 19th century French art. Very well done!
One of the best. Helen Crump is the ultimate stern/psycho-sexual schoolmarm in it. Ernest T. clues into something that Andy’s dark look by the fireplace reveals. “A lot of us like her”? Is Helen an adventuress? Is Ernest T. a swinger?
Where’s Leonard Blush when you need him? Oh yeah that’s right. Blush’s voice is that of Howard Morris as well,
Well in the show Andy does state that he spent time “over in France during the war”. Ref; Andy Griffith Show, The Feud.
Barney and Andy's friendship is beautiful lol
Now I have to watch this episode. I watched this series everyone and then, but I don't think I've seen the dramatic episodes! Thanks for telling us that!
,,I'm in kind of a hurry. I'm really late for my son's karate class!"
(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
That was my first thought seeing this painting too. Seemed like parents in mourning. Not because I'm a great art expert, but rather a good observer of people. Of course it takes a great artist to be able to relay those feelings on canvas.
Literally as soon as I looked at it "they look like they're mourning something"
I thought they were mourning too as soon as I saw it
It really shows how truly excellent a painter he was and how unjustly criticized he was during his career.
It looks like a common baby basket you see even today.
My grandma used to watch this all the time with me, I remembered this episode. Great video, Austin! Love your work. Stay safe!
I used watch it with my dad on tv land. Good times.
Duuuuude, same here! Barney was our favorite character :)
@@yohanahramen6756 Barney was the best
My mom, in her 70's love it too. She can watch it all day long.
@@Bmthighlights I don't care what anyone says, Don Knotts was a master of physical comedy and made that show!
Love this video. The coffin at the end was totally unexpected
Well, it would have been…
It's interesting that when The painting got the close up. The coffin/ potato basket was hidden by his head. Also, it's odd that the potato basket looks sort of like a bassinet
It's even more fitting due to the fact that Andy's wife had died ---
This is pretty sad, the painter of this had deep hidden feelings and probably witnessed what he saw as a child but couldn't bring himself to show everyone else and kept it to himself never realizing that technology one day might reveal his sadness.
Damn, that reveal actually made my jaw drop. Well done, Austin.
Dali. Salvador Dali. Congratulate him.
@@kostis2849 I get where you‘re coming from but Austin also did a great job in telling this story and since this comment is under his video and the other dude is dead, i would say it‘s ok.
Salvador Daliis he the guy who painted twisted reality images like melted mantle clock faces and such? If he was the same artist, I have 2 reasons to like what he was responsible for.
@@kostis2849 oh never mind, just realised Dali was the guy who got the painting x-rayed. I‘m stupid🤦🏻♂️
@@kostis2849 Austin made a well constructed video and brought something to my attention that I likely never would have discovered otherwise, as I'm not an art history person in general.
With that in mind, I feel pretty comfortable in saying that he made a good video. None of that means I'm burying Dali. The Catholic church did that.
For those who want to learn more about the artist:
Name: "Jean-François Millet"
Painting: "Angelus"
I'm posting this, because finding his name was difficult. I kept spelling it "Malay." This is further compounded when you realize there's a paint namebrand when you search "Angelus painting."
In a way, I feel bad that Millet was so badly impacted by critics. He had a vision that he wanted to tell others, something real, but I imagine his own worry of what society would think literally caused him to alter his own art. Personally, I think that's an ultimate sin.
Thank you for your time!!!
I think sin is going a bit too far, we have to remember these people want to eat. No one wants to be a sellout, and we should encourage individuality, but if it's sellout or starve, we should give them some empathy.
Thank you. I am surprised that the information is not I the video description.
When you first showed the painting at around 3:55, my first thought was, “How sad - it looks like a funeral. They must be burying a lost child.” I’m not surprised at all that Dali got the same sense from the image.
Seems obvious to me lol
yeah lol
Was my thought, too. I expected the narrator to zoom in on the basket to reveal a deceased infant about to be buried. The body language of this couple is way too mournful for it to be about "c'mon taters!" However, if they just discovered that their crop was infected with phytophthora infestans, they would have been shattered. The failure of potato crops in Europe and Ireland was a terrible economic tragedy in the late 19th century. Widespread starvation, millions died as a result of just this one plant getting a blight.
My aunt had a print of this painting in her living room when I was a kid. I always found it creepy and depressing. Never knew the story behind it. Wow. Thanks for this video 👍
Did a quick search on this btw because I found it so interesting, Apparently this is just an urban legend or creepy pasta about the painting.
The quote of Salvador Dali about the painting being about a coffin was just his artistic interpretation rather than him theorizing about what the real meaning was.
There's no images or proof of any X-Rays being made by the Louvre and finding any coffins beneath layers of paint.
All I found was a wordpress document about it, but I can't find any evidence beyond a blog to say that this legend is true.
It may be not urban legend. I also tried to track down the image and found a page from the book "The Tragic Myth of Millet’s Angelus" by Dali which shows a trapezoidal shape under the couple's feet. UA-cam won't allow me to post link, but just try "X-ray The Angelus" in Google Image and you'll find it. There are also academic papers discussing Dali's idea, meaning there are critics who believe the idea is not without merit, but apparently the closest to the original X-ray is from Dali's book and even that doesn't show much beyond a geometrical mass (totally unlike what we see in the video), so clearly it's not conclusive at all.
....🤔 But is the painting on the show the real deal or a mock up?
@@tashasmith6179 it is a copy
@@tashasmith6179 what kinda idiot would borrow a real painting from art museum to use as props on their show lol
To me, Dali's theory being correct is a testament to the fact that great art is infused with something more than visual information. Almost like a lingering ghost of Millet's emotions as he painted the piece. It sounds silly, but feels right.
... or it's just subtle ques. Like the dark shading, focus on the dirt and odd positioning of the potatoes, their general body language, etc.
@@robonator2945 I think it's both--art carries a trace of the artist, of their emotions, thoughts, beliefs. That trace is found in the technique--direction, shading, focus, etc. Millet's emotions carried into the painting, even when it's subject was changed. Even if it not longer directly shows a child's burial, it still carries that initial emotion Millet put into the composition.
@@vurrunna obviously, no-one is arguing that subconscious decisions impact the work, but read the comment, "infused with something more than visual information". It's like the "collective unconscious"; there is one interpretation that is scientifically valid (the culture we see, words we use, concepts we think about, all leave miniscule, but present, imprints on our minds that ends up being the same collectively since we all view the same media), and one that isn't. (magic brain scape that transfers information and all humans are part of the hivemind but only a little bit)
also, in the catholic tradition, dead little children are called "angels", like "Angelus" the title. And Dali come from a catholic country, Spain.