The Most Disturbing Painting
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SOURCES
Jay Scott Morgan, "The Mystery of Goya's "Saturn"
New England Review (1990-), Vol. 22, No. 3 (Summer, 2001), pp. 39-43
Robert Hughes, "Goya's Unflinching Eye"
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Shana Thompson, Caitlin Hopkins, and Erin England, "The Eighteenth Century Worker: Goya’s Tapestry Cartoons and the Influence of the Enlightenment"
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Jonathan Jones, "Goya in hell: the bloodbath that explains his most harrowing work" www.theguardia...
Nigel Glendinning, "The Strange Translation of Goya's 'Black Paintings'
The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 117, No. 868 (Jul., 1975), pp. 464-477+479
John Dowling, "Buero Vallejo's Interpretation of Goya's "Black Paintings"
Hispania, Vol. 56, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 449-457
Peter K. Klein, "Insanity and the Sublime: Aesthetics and Theories of Mental Illness in Goya's Yard with Lunatics and Related Works" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 61 (1998), pp. 198-252
Hesiod's Theogeny
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Arthur Lublow, "The Secret of The Black Paintings" NY Times Mag 2003
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Juliet Wilson Bareau, "Goya and the X Numbers: The 1812 Inventory and Early Acquisitions of "Goya" Pictures"
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First mention of The Black Paintings in 1838:
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Janet Thomas “Art as a Weapon”-The Enlightenment of Francisco de Goya
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Roberta M. Alford, "Goya and the Intentions of the Artist"
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Jun., 1960), pp. 482- 493
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"The Dread" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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If Saturn looked vicious or predatory, it wouldn't be as frightening.
The fact that *he* looks desperate and horrified, almoat panicked, by what he's so committed to doing is part of the terror of the piece.
precisely.
to me it looks as if he became twisted but yet he looks like he is being forced not by himself but he’s looking at the one who is making him forced him to do this and made sure that he became deformed
Maybe he is horrified because he’s eating his own son
well maybe saturn doesn’t realize it’s causing him this pain whilst eating them
yeah that could be it
*"chewing"*
"this episode was brought to you by squarespace"
That’s not funny
@@adammarquez5203 fuck u. yes it is
Lmao!!
😹😹😹😹😹 JESUS CHRIST
Yeah, would've been better if Hellofresh sponsored him for this one)
The fact that he painted these horrific scenes onto the walls of his home - having to see them everyday, have them constantly around him and his supposedly safe space, and for them to be watching him and being seen in the dark - is possibly the saddest part
It really shows his state of mind. He was insane, it’s beautiful in a way.
Could you f*ckin imagine sitting down to eat and you got this lookin at you? I find it very fascinating
I Made a creepy painting about it in my channel!
This painting would be so much more terrifying seen on the wall of a darkly lit room….
imagine living like that, i could never. he really was something
I come back to this video every year or so. Like Goya’s Spain, it feels like we’re always “backsliding on the road to modernity”. This video feels scarier than it ever has here in 2025, and it was always appropriately terrifying. Thanks for making a video that speaks to a strange kind of darkness that we feel these days. It’s comforting to know that we’ve been here before, somehow
I saw this painting in person during a visit to a museum in Spain when I was young. Prior to this visit, art had been something I appreciated aesthetically, but not much beyond that. Then I entered "The Black Room" where all of Goya's Black Paintings were on display. I walked in, and was immediately transfixed by this exact painting discussed in the video. This was the painting that made me realize the power of art. I had never felt emotion so intensely at the viewing of a painting before, and I'm not sure I ever will, but I immediately understood that art is a medium to convey so much more than aesthetic beauty. It can express love, pain, loss, grief, joy and provoke a deep emotional connection between the viewer and the piece... I will always be thankful to this painting for opening my eyes to what art truly is.
I love your story! I really enjoy art too! It's amazing how art has the ability to show different emotions!🤗🤗
I know what you mean. I had this when I saw 'The Taking of Christ' by Caravaggio in Dublin. That was really intense.
really? this just creeped me the funk out
Anthony Gatta thank you.
This is how someone sees art from an emotional and mental level....from a physical level, I would say "WTF!"
>Chokes on son's leg bone
>Dies
Prophecy fulfilled
Ryan Gman underrratedddd 😂
Dark and funny... I approve
You darn fool, take the bones out before eating
Ngl if I didn’t know better about Greek mythology I would’ve believed that due to the twisted nature of it
Oi
It's the wild eyes that freak me out the most. It looks so scared and like it'd eat me too in a heartbeat
You do got some nice legs...
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono and lookin good like a titan
@@miamikirsten435 bruh😂😂
IKR its like someone is whispering you specially when your deaf saw this paint.
exactly, because of the possibility (implication?) that the viewer and saturn are alone with no one else around, it kind of makes you feel like you're going to be next
2:01
When someone interupts your midnight snack.
*Dammit Silver (my cat)! Dont scare me!*
"'Saturn *Devouring* His Sons' was in the dining room"
Welp, I guess Goya has a sick sense of humour.
He feast like saturn
I’d do the same, lol.
Somehow I don't think he meant it to be funny.
I think the dining room was the room that had the best space for it, if you look at the plans of his house...
Dark humor mfs
imagine you're just hanging out with goya, snacking with him and then there's just this painting straight staring at you in the dining room
terrifying
"Uhhh... nice painting there, bud. Where'd you get it?"
"I painted it myself"
"Oh"
🤣
NOPE, NOPE, NOPE.
It will scare the hell out of me God forbid🥴🥴🥴
Jesus freaking christ, that music did NOT help at all
That crunching at the start...... then those eyes. Yikes!
ruclips.net/video/GCeFW7gXR2o/видео.html This is the music used in the video
playing scp made me get used to the music
Hamilton :)
YES IT DID I love it
I had this painting as wallpaper once.
bruh so everytime u see unlock ur device u see that shit?
(artist here) as a kid i used to hate that painting; i didn't get it, didn't find it scary at all and i found the artistic freedom he took with the anatomy (especially chronos' face) especially childish. even though i knew all about the story behind this painting i still couldn't bring myself to care about it; looking at it online didn't evoke anything in me, especially since i for some reason assumed it was tiny. that was until i saw the black paintings at the museo del prado one year ago to the date. if you've been there i'm sure you're familiar with the layout of that room, but essentially it is a round room painted red, and the painting is to the left side more toward the back of the room. now our tour guide started from the right with a massive canvas with a goat man/devil in it, and then talked about a tiny dog sinking/drowning in the painting opposite the entry. i suddenly turned around to see the rest of the black paintings (i'd even forgotten about chronos devouring his son entirely), without realizing how close i was to the wall and the picture itself. as a result i was absolutely petrified upon seeing the insanity in his eyes; he was massive and the vivid memory of the completely primal reaction i felt upon seeing it is something i will never forget. i have yet to experience something like it when seeing a painting in real life; that sense of awe and fear has made me gain a great feeling of respect for goya, and a true appreciation for this painting in particular. finally get why people find it so fascinating
Victoria Lago nobody cares that much about what you feel bro
I care. Stories like this are interesting and give context to the painting. I don't find it that scary online either, but I can imagine what it looks like in real life.
I saw it at the prado in August and had roughly the same experience - I knew the painting existed but had forgotten what it looked like, and as soon as I saw it it was the only thing in the room I could focus on
JP Fikani speak for yourself
JP Fikani roasted
me eating cold chicken wings out of the fridge at 3 AM
SAVAGE
OMG that is so accurate!! 😂
blink WonEidiTu hahahahaha
blink WonEidiTu Indeed 😅
That's Very usefull
The fact that this child eating man in the painting is caught by the viewer (you) gives a frightening tension that doesnt go away.
@Safak Aksin eye- ;-;
That's the most unsettling part about this painting, it's sort of engaging the viewer.
@Roast Chicken oof thats why i clicked it....I regret watching this cause it made me had nightmares last night ;-;😂
I like to imagine the follow up of the scene continuing with Cronus still looking at the viewer, frozen, unmoving. Then he slowly goes back to eating like it's an everyday thing.
Never saw it that way before. Now that you say that it made the painting even creepier for me than it already was.
It's crazy to see such old photographs of classic paintings. It makes you feel how old they are.
"A frightened, crazed monster discovered in the dark as if by some explorer with a torch that wondered into the wrong cave" The thought of finding something like this in that fashion makes this painting that much more terrifying. Great video.
ichithekiller102 This comment.
That line crawled through my spine.
StripedBlackTie "sentence was amazing" that was a funny comment
Heard that when l read this, jeez.
I’d be running fast
reminds me of aot
The editing on this is underrated, clicking on the video and hearing the crispy chewing surprisingly freaked me tf out
Facts. Very unsettling.
Yea
It’s so disturbing
It's really really overdone and overproduced
what makes an artist great
True art, like Goyas it has a double meaning. Double speak is ancient it’s giving hints and clues to people in plain sight. Anyone who comes out and says things plainly doesn’t survive history. But the artist knows that his work will survive for others to pick up on it.
Other examples of double speak are in the Bible. The book of revaluations says that four horse men, death famine war disease will come from the underworld and reign hell on earth. It’s really double speak. It’s really saying When the Roman sentries( armies) are spread thin by the problems of war famine death and disease within the country then will make our move and take over Rome. It was the Catholics communicating to their followers and that’s exactly what happened, they are in the Vatican to this day, although the church isn’t what it once was they do still have power but most importantly it’s a reminder of the systems of complete power that will always try take over their current world.
Kronos was strong and beautiful in his youth, when he was the rightful ruler of the kosmos. Here he is warped by age, senile and insane. It isn’t only fated that he should pass the throne to the next generation, it is natural and just. But he can’t. He’s too terrified of letting go. You can see in his eyes that he is aware of the horror of his actions, and his position, but he can’t help himself.
Kronos is a titan, a father of Zeus
Do you mean "world"?
This work could now be titled “The Boomer”
The fear of death, very human thing
@@rskl8083 not just fear of death, it's also fear of admitting you fading your peak, your prime, your golden age.
Was watching this alone and 0:17 scared the heck out of me
I love the transition between...
"Chewing"
To
"Hey everybody"
This probably won't get as many views as some of the other videos, but PLEASE do more painting/artist essays. This is my favorite video of yours to date. The editing and audio were awesome and I learned a lot.
Yesss please!!!! I support this. Nerdwriter1 please listen!!
The sound design of this video is in a league of its own
let's not forget those visual effects too
Seriously though. As soon as it started I was like, "oH NO"
It's definitely one of his better ones. Loved ALL of it!
Ya, I was thinking that a bit earlier and by the end I was totally impressed. I think that Nerdwriter is really pushing the boundaries of what video essay can convey, how effectively and concisely it can do it. It's been a joy to watch his visuals and sound design develop over the past ~2 years I've been watching, and totally inspires me to push my skills further and learn.
Exactly! I love how in the Goya-going-deaf part the sound is a little off. At first I thought it was me, but then it struck me...
"progress isn't assured and when it's defeated, it's not painless. It's horrific and slow, and the victim can feel it."
Kronos is scared, almost terrified, of himself. He is old, deluded into thinking he *has* to eat his children, out of fear of a prophecy. Yet, even though he’s won, is still afraid of his sons, and what he has become. It’s a poetic defeat, Kronos lost himself in the fear of his sons.
Until Kratos shows up
@@knightgamer3510
Epic funny gamer moment memes 2022
Yeah, this is an amazing depiction of that - something the other painters of the scene shown in this video did not capture, perhaps out of fear that it would be too dark for public display. Saturn devoured himself out of a frantic kind of fear. Found in the dark, caught, contorted into a position of resistance and shame, Saturn is devoured and has set the stage for the eventual fulfillment of the prophecy. His fear -> his wife's fear -> Zeus!
Lol he could've just stopped fucking😅
Very good interpretation. I see it too. A madness in his eyes.
Nerdwriter1: The most disturbing painting ever
Internet: lol this is me getting caught drinking the mayo bottle at 3 AM by my parents
AARON MEDDERS "comedians"
Was it Hellman’s and son......lol
Celina just the IDEA of someone drinking mayonnaise is disturbing!
Snidely Whiplash not if they supplement it with a chicken sandwich lol (drink, eat, drink, eat. repeat)
Lol me tho
It's important to note that Goya didn't name his paintings. So, I don't understand why other people named this painting "Saturn devouring his son." Goya might have drawn influence from it but he molded into something specific to him
Wow, I did not know that! It really puts the painting into a new perspective.
Because "That one Goya painting influenced by Saturn devouring his son, but molded into something specific to him" was kind of a clunky title.
Saturn ate his children in the Greek mythos, so i guess it was based upon assumption
@@joe_chill1060 it's Kronos not Saturn, Kronos was not Roman
@@boneheadindustries6398 if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
I think this painting at 0:52 was one of those paintings from Breaking Dawn Part 1, when Edward was surfing the web on this site called immortalicum, regarding “vampire children”.
I think the fact that he painted these on his walls of his home and didn't show them to anyone is the most disturbing thing.
TheZixion the ultimate elephant in the room
probably because he was deaf and at that time having such disability meant that a lot of people would not want to spend time with you, the reason why he was so isolated.
Imo the reason why he did paint this, after all, is his depiction of people to him and of course, If I people do want to find out why he did really paint this I believe that they should find out what was happening in his environment where he lived if it's possible today of course. Any written evidence etc.
bro the chewing sounds are so unsettling at the start of the video, my spine felt like it was hanging off the back of my cold, metal chair
My Sister: *eating chicken*
Me: stop eating......
Sister: why?
Me: I'm scared......
Dead
"I'm not eating anything"
"Mom wtf are you eating."
*"B AN AN AB A"*
FREESHAVACADOO
Sister: So? Then stop watching until I'm done eating...I'm hungry.
8:06 that was a perfect closure
I've always found it hard to look at this painting, I almost didn't click the video for fear of staring at it too long, but of course I had to watch this because it really is a masterpiece. There's this quote "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable". Great analyisis!
Considering he was deaf, these paintings are extremely aural
He lost his hearing late in life, so it's fair to assume he had a good understanding of sound. Maybe the "aural" nature of his later work was him attempting to recapture his lost sense.
@@juliamavroidi8601 100% agree
@@juliamavroidi8601 indeed.
Many of these paintings evoke in the viewer a "sound" - groans, moans, retching, blood-curdling screams... etc. After losing his hearing, he likely became more acutely aware of the visual representation of emotions that the hearing would associate more with sounds -- and that must be why his paintings in this period are so disturbing and evocative. We can hear the noises they appear to make.
Did nobody get the joke in the replies?
4:39 Mmm that's some good editing right there
Mmm?
The Sound and the contrast as a dark turningpoint.
I thought my speakers were bugging out for a second
@@eyxnos5192 The deafening sound in the background that comes.... As the narrator explains the person became deaf
this might be my favorite video I've seen on youtube
honestly the scariest part is how there’s no known reason for painting this.
¿Relamente piensas que no hay una razón para pintarlo? ¡Increíble! Qué poca capacidad de sentir la tuya.
@@cesarballon7874 I donto speacko spanisho
@@kaderpdi1982 Lo sé, lo sé. Es demasiado para ti, pobrecito niño.
You tampocou hablou huichihuichi.
I mean the amount of times I've drawn shrek with a mustache have told me you just gotta do what you gotta do.
@@cesarballon7874 He didn't say there was no reason, he said there was no KNOWN reason. I agree with him. Not having a clear reason leaves you to wonder what was going through Goya's head, forcing you to project your own demons onto the painting. That is indeed scarier.
P.S.: why would you reply in spanish to an english comment?
My old history teacher had this painting in his room I had to look at it almost ever single day
Did you ever ask them why?
Deadlyaztec27 no I kind of just accepted it
I am hiding here in your comment because
I am afraid
I dont wanna sound crazy but I like staring at creepy paintings like that and just day dreaming about it and imagining stuff
Santi Cheeks I can respect that
Oops
You need more likes
yeah
Kronos upload again bitch
Kronos damn u really just stoped uploading
Directed by Larry David
The context is so important because this is a scene of a man eating a man. The human eating himself. Just like he does in every war.
it’s actually a god eating a semi-god
@@Lucia-io3dn nope, he never said who they are, people interpreted that way
@@franoliveramusica that's a great perspective right there.
imagine having this painting just casually hanging in your multi million dollar home
I would put it opposite of me sitting on.the toilet....... it'd be quick business every time lol!
Kruppt808 😂
A real conversation piece in the dining room
not even hanging just on your wall
Put it on your dining room wall looking directly at the table
Thank you for not putting a jump scare at the end
Somehow that's even scarier
Not jump scare, but yes ASMR scare
You got me good with the chewing sounds at the start
I was eating a Arbys while starting this video and for a second I was really confused thinking that I must have been eating a really chewy piece of chicken only to realize it was Saturn...
Noice!
8:04
Lol i was eating toast when i played this and was surprised at the beginning as well
You're lucky you weren't eating Uranus
@@Max_Le_Groom hahaha
In starting there was eating sound and all of sudden that scary painting make me shaken😯😲😱😱
Fun fact: Guillermo del Toro was inspired by this painting when he came up with the scene where the Pale Man eats one of the fairies in Pan's Labyrinth.
("Fun" might be a bit of a misnomer, though.)
K
wow thats really interesting. pan's labryinth was also focused around the events on Spain if i recall correctly. the correlation makes it a bit freakier, lol
Great scene, perhaps Goya made his piece to describe the autocracy as well
Just watched that movie, you made my day
Yeah, events of the Spanish Civil War no less.
Nerdwriter has gone to the dark side. This is probably the best video in the past several months (for me, that is).
Wait a minute... If Goya never showed this to anyone, how do we know it is Saturn eating his child and not just a representation of something else?
We don't.
maybe he titled it next to where he drew it?
holy hecc he never named it though
We actually don't. All of the black paintings were named by others after his death
... bruh I want to sleep, thinking about this too deeply is a bit too much for me
"Saturn Devouring his son was in the dining room"
😳😳😳that freaked me out!
What big eyes he has
They are too see you better my dear
Probably to show how much he's lost it. The paranoia, the fear and the act itself has driven him wild.
"OwO what's this? My son is going to kill me?"
What big mouth he has
What thick cheeks you have
that's what i look like when my mom finds me on the floor of the kitchen shoveling shredded cheese into my mouth at 4:37 am
Ha me tho
Fuck, she found me, gotta go FaSt!
Shredded cheese on its own is hella underrated
I would like to thank this comment section for keeping this creepy video relatively fun as I watch this in the middle of the night
Lol
Real talk
🤣fr
0:50 you can feel the bite..... , you can see the madness in his eyes .
Goya was disturbed, no question. What’s more alarming to me is his contentment with his disturbance. He’s fascinating.
Was he, or did he observe mankind's primitive parts?
Not contentment, but acceptance.
@@Thirteen13551355 sadist
@@yanderekun4939 You must have some serious problems, calling people sadists at random. There's nothing sadistic about accepting the fact that life can be very painful and hurtful towards people. Maybe you're one of the people causing such pain? You won't get my sympathy.
@@yanderekun4939 It's also just incredibly weird how I am a sadist for not going with the idea that Goya was 'content' with what he saw. That would be sadistic, lol. You're weird as hell.
Wonderful video, but you neglect to mention the look of mournful humiliation on saturn's own face. He's eating not because he wants to but because he must. Destroying his child is the only way he can survive. It's a self-portrait. Goya was painting his own pain at his dark thoughts.
Do I Know You Was about to write this, but you wrote it much better :)
Mya Hunter liar
wow, that makes it even darker, the monster is not a monster of his own volition, he does it out of fear and self-preservation but is simultaneously horrified with his own actions, being forced to eat his own child (in his perception at least). it's torture porn and body horror, with a disturbing psychological edge to it. Try to imagine eating your own child alive, one bite at a time, and as the gods are immortal, at no point will the child die, it wil remain conscious during the whole process... every bite of raw flesh, bone and skin, crunching between your teeth, i've never tried to experience the painting from Saturn's point of view but damn....
I disagree. The myth serves to warn us of what tensions can develop between the old and the young. Saturn doesn't eat his children to survive, he does it out of fear. Fear of being overthrown, fear of his own mortality, fear his children will eclipse him and leave him looking weak and foolish.
Indeed in this painting Saturn is given a reason to fear. Saturn's sickly yellow skin and wild mane depicts him as a beast. His fears and lack of hope have robbed him of his humanity. In contrast the son is depicted as a healthy adult, representing human potential and vitality.
As broken and scared as Saturn is, time has allowed him to grow into a colossal giant, much like how in our world resources and systems are under the control of older generations. Goya recognizes the underlying fear in the choices we make as we attempt to grow as people, how we trade humanity for power until we ultimately become more beast than man.
Saturn doesn't have a look of mournful humiliation, he is a wild beast who has long past stopped questioning himself. Much like the limp body of the son, Saturn isn't presented as being with purpose. He isn't devouring his son out of spite or as a calculated act of rage or revenge, he's eating by rote, like a lion would eat a mouse.
This is why the painting works. It shows an honest, naked depiction of the forces at play, pointing to the chaos human nature can conjure and how uncaring and bleak the world can be. He presents a dying monster whose disease is the very thing disallowing anything be reborn to take his place. Goya stands powerless before these natural forces, afflicted by the ever-pervasive feedback loop of fear that has so suffocated human potential in the world around him.
This painting is why we need regulations and laws.
Victor Renaud-Betz wow
Always was scared of that painting. It always gives me this unnerving want to look and keep my eyes fixed on Cronos's eyes. It's an entrapping type of fear that Goya captured in that painting.
"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" of Iliá Repin is the most disturbing paiting EVER, this shit make me laugh
@@pcls-tech sure, it's creepy from the expressions on their faces, but this video looks beyond just "this is a creepy painting" to the historical context of the painting, its artistic mechanisms (such as color, placement, and the weird context it gives to the scene) and above all, its super eerie discovery. The Ivan painting holds no merit like that, it's an assumption made about the mysterious death of Ivan Ivanovich, so it's not as creepy as this painting beyond the look on Ivan the Terrible's face.
@@laughingcheektocheek If you read the history of Russia, the story of Ivan the terrible, the story behind the scene in that painting, everything that was, everything that happened afterwards, and how the severe socio-cultural sequels marked the history of Russia forever (and Eastern Europe), and in addition, you analyze the psychological aspect of the scene, those involved, and finally, all its context, you will realize that this work, is the greatest work of terror ever done by any human being, by the gigantic context behind it. It was a whole dynasty of more than 600 years that stopped governing Russia because of that terrible murder committed by Ivan, while this painting by Goya, is only the reflection of a myth, something that never happened, the story of Ivan is 1000 more relevant times
imagine thinking that the painting is irrelevant because it's a depiction of a myth lmao
symbolism is a thing, you know. and competent artists never stop using it.
@@NewNub I am not saying that it is not relevant, but that, in comparison to all the giant and complex historical context that lies behind the painting of "Ivan and his son" is something unprecedented worldwide, we are talking about the end of a dynasty of the Russian nobility that was ruling for more than 600 years, and which ended due to the terrible murder committed by Ivan, whose political system left consequences that until today affect Russia and its neighboring countries. Sometimes reality surpasses fiction.
8:03 me eating an apple.
Yes chewing indeed
I didn't wanna sleep anyway
bro, this painting... and that creepy music on the background... fuck, i'm freaked out af.
That has to be one of your best intros ever. Spine tingling chills
24 Frames Of Nick truth
Definitely the worst. I hate the sound of chewing.
horrifically great.
Hola hoops
Amazing video. My favorite so far. Your art videos make way to awesome knowledge very hard to aquire otherwise
I have this saved as my phones lock screen...
Was it just me or did this video almost sound like a creepypasta?
Like Matthew santoro????
Siddhartha Ghosh no because this is a real painting.
Beautiful work. I am grateful that you exist.
Best comment ever! I wish I was friends with Nerdwriter guy! What an inspiring human being.
The Signal Path shutup
skemsen shutup
What do you mean??
Just here for attention, can we all vote to get nerdwriter to do a snippet piece on the great poet Shakespeare! Not that im very technical or understand poetry :(
The chewing noise makes this significantly worse. Thank you so much. My ethics teacher has a poster of this painting right next to my desk in class
swampwizard out of any other painting to hang up... why in the world does it have to be that one...
swampwizard lol wtf holy shit
swampwizard same with me except it's my math teacher
I was eating lunch while watching this and the chewing noises made me lose my appetite lol
"ethics"
Months before watching this video I have had the painting of Saturn as the wallpaper on my phone because I just like the painting
one of the scariest things for me about this painting is actually the pose and the body of Kronos. it’s just so weird, unnatural, his legs are slender and long, his neck is in a weird position, the way he lends down… there if something really off about it.
I always thought titans were kaiju like beings in myth but were actually just regular sized people eating other regular sized people
Yeah, and his face seems so... unnatural
Dont worry guys. We are safe here in the comments
are u sure
I'm on mobile :(
No we are not
Thank you
@@trickytreyperfected1482 the painting is coming from inside the house!!!
its insane to think of Goya standing alone in his dark dining room, perhaps having a glass of wine, just staring up at this painting for years...
The snack that smiles back
This guy painted this shit on his dining room wall. The place where he ate...
#legendary
guests dont want to eat dont have to spend on ingredients
To be frank almost half of the black paintings were in Goya's dining room.
I might try putting a print of it up in my dining room. Might help with my diet.
#MetalAsFuck
He bought paintings to later paint on them his black paintings
My feet cant hang out of the bed for a few days now
Sameee
The painting was never titled. People just started calling it Saturn Devouring his Son but it seems there was no intention to depict that. In fact, Goya had painted the inside of his house originally with other, more joyful paintings. It wasn't until the end of his life that he painted over his paintings, corrupting them. With xrays or whatnot they can sometimes see what was the original painting, but with this particular one, no one knows what scene was corrupted.
I'm interested, who had named the painting then?
Probably art historians like how that one painting came to be known as "Whistler's Mother" instead of "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1"
You're right, I've done some searching; most of them were named by historians and labeled by his friend Antonio Brugada.
Nerdwriter isn't one to miss out details like this. Is this definitely true?
I've been reading about this painting, and it seems that VMKjelly is right. Also, if Goya painted thif for himself, not for the public, it only makes sense that he never named them
I love how a little caesar's ad came on here 8:01 after he said "chewing" 😂
Disturbing art presented in a, well, different way:
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@nerdwriter1 this might interest you-- I went to a screening of loving vincent followed by a Q&A with one of the directors. Someone asked whether they had any ideas for their next handpainted film to which he answered (hopefully in all seriousness) "we want to make a horror film in the style of Goya"
Providence Beacon OHMYGOD THAT WOULD BE SO COOL
Off topic here, but I really enjoyed watching Loving Vincent! How was the Q&A session?!
Providence Beacon oh that'd be beautiful and creepy as fuck, I'd definitely go watch that
that sounds fucking terrifying
That sounds AMAZING. Would knock the socks off most modern horror films.
Now THIS is scary. THIS is the feeling a horror movie should give you.
you should watch Hereditary
@@comsatteur6893 yeah that movie was bone chilling the subtle scares and fear tingling foreshadowing makes it one of the scariest movies to think of.
@@waterdoggo4998 the third act was really weird tho
Why I watch this in the middle of the night.
Yoppy Halilintar unlucky
Same. F''k reason.
Yoppy Halilintar Same reason I did lol
Same, 10:30 pm here, lol
10:45am here
The eating sounds at the start were craazy☠
Wow. Not only the painting made me feel disturbed, but the way you spoke was horrifying. Worked well with the dark subject.
A great quality video.
Honestly, I think the scariest part about the painting is the reason why he drew the victim as an adult, not a kid. I really like to think that the motive behind it is the myth itself. I see this not as the real greek myth, but rather an alternative version of it, one in which Saturn dethrone his son after being defeated, one in which he finally broke the prophecy, one is which despite Zeus’ effort, his father came back and reclaimed what he thought was his.
This not only makes more sense to me, but reflects what Goya could have felt during the time, considering his illness and the war. Pessimism, trying to conform himself with the fact that reality wasn’t what he thought nor what he used to paint, but fear, dark and endless overthrow; reality was Zeus losing and Saturn winning
That is a really great interpretation. Thank you for sharing it.
but why there is fear in it's(saturn's) eyes?
Spot on. He is eating Zeus.
@@againstmachine498 because of what zeus represents. saturn won, yes, but there was still an attempt to attack him. i’d say maybe adrenaline?
Walked into the wrong cave...
YOU PICK THE WRONG CAVE, FOOL!
@TheProjectUnknow in Romanian its Jupiter :)
@TheProjectUnknow awwww my God
William Utermohlen’s final self portrait is the most disturbing painting I’ve ever seen
I’m going to go watch a Disney movie now...
probably hercules
And try to forget lmfao
Dont watch the old Alice movie its creepy
Attack of the titans
I suggest Zootopia. Judy's can-do attitude will have you feelin better in no time!
Your sound design scared the shit out of me more than Goya's paintings.
Goya was *woke*
yessssss yesss yess- brother nero cometh
SJW? Man, grow up...
totally agree
Bajocontinuo Goya a SWJ?...LoL
Y’all got me feeling old with your titles for the reactionary.
I remember when this whole system had purpose. Singular and disconnected.
Now every man is keen to see himself worthy of a system he himself is no part of,
Demanding acceptance,
Demanding that knife fall elsewhere.
Or maybe I’m too young I grew up without tales of knights, my elders scoff at the constructs of singular intent. I wish I new what honor was in practice, but they don’t teach that.
Idk
All I’m saying is I’ve never met a Warrior for “social justice”. Just a bunch of maimed kids in various states of distress, echoing the primal chords.
Perhaps I ought to look for these folks the commoner detests so much, perhaps they might expand upon my view, but I don’t presume the enlightenment of mortals stems from mortals of the time, that in itself Seems far too optimistic, quite convenient for those seeking repeal, they would surely believe such a thing. But I’ve looked elsewhere.
"A monster, looking out from a dark wall in a dark room... Chewing"
Shit gave me chills
It's way less disturbing if you imagine Saturn going "NOM NOM NOM"
thank you
thank you
thank you
Bruh I literally hear him Chewing at The Beggining of the video
"Nom nom nom nom nom delicioso"
Yes, this painting will never be scary anymore. Thank you, Dora😂
i find the detail that Saturn is completely goring the person instead of swallowing them like in the original story interesting. Instead of keeping the hope of revolution with zeus being alive in the stomach, the person is straight up killed with his body ripped to shreds squashing any chance of it immediately
dont wanna be that guy but Zeus was never swallowed, but I don't think it makes your point any less valid
Zeus was the son who took over Saturns throne in the myth, he wasn't swallow. Greek mythology is really deep and difficult to follow, I barely only know most of it through god of war lol
Saw this painting at a museum, bought it as a fridge magnet and now the fridge scares md
Max Moore well that's an effective to stick to fasting lol
Same! Except the force magnet part hahaha
Damn you have magnet of a man eating a child on your fridge and you can still eat. Dude
does that make me goth? xd
Maybe on the other hand that painting was discovered in Goya's dinning hall.
What freaks me out most is that in all of the other black paintings eyes are black and sunken in or not even present at all but Saturns eyes are wide open
since Francisco didn't care what they thought of the painting.
maybe he just painted it for shits and giggles.
he just woke up one day and decided
"for the dining room. man eats child"
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but didn't he paint the black paintings after the trauma the war he witnessed brought him?
Gillian Daemon i love you
LMAOOOO
@@Andreea19992000 Yeah, and also other things. At that point there were a series of artists who started to question the dogmas that existed, because of the church and the aristocracy. Because of that, they started to paint other versions of mithology, and left the heroic aspect to other more realistic or approprite to the theme.
William Blake is another artist who did this. (Nebuchadnezzar). He was also an "afrancesado" which in the time Napoleon conquered Spain, meant that he supported the frenchs because they were illustrated. He didn't want France to conquer Spain, but the country was well behind them. In fact, Napoleon said that he needed to pass through Spain to conquer Portugal and basically Spain let them enter the peninsula . And Goya wanted to change the aristocracy domination that existed in Spain. Then when the French conquered Spain, he then realized that "The Dream of Reason produces monsters" which is another reading for his famous drawing. He dreamed to had that but that produced the monsters of war. That led him to produce a more critic production.
Sorry if something is not written correctly and I hope everything is understandable. English is not my native language.
@@juliopalomino6715 no worries, I'm not a native speaker either, but your English seems to be very correct and advanced. Thank you very much for your very detailed and well thought reply, I have learned a lot from it. Have a beautiful day :)
One thing is for certain: Kronos apparently doesn't have a gag reflex.
@@TheFunkoDunko yes.
Jesus chri-
No gag reflex you say 😏
@@deletedaccount4093 gay
**sigh**
_unzips_
Disturbing. Educational. And a goofy pitch shifted voice at the beginning. This video has it all!
I do love your painting videos. xx
Wen Bilson And the end too
The pause and then just the word "Chewing..." was chilling. I had to go back to the beginning and realized that those sounds were chewing noises. Brrrrr... :P
I have a giant canvas print of this painting in my bedroom wall. Masterpiece.
I appreciate that Goya turning deaf part. It brought the most chills in me from the video. This is coming from someone who's almost deaf on her left ear, I relate and was reminded of the actual possibility of deafness in the future. Cheers lmao.
Cheers! I would say more but I don’t want to add to your grief on the matter. Ed edd n eddy forever 😊
Hah, I'm completely deaf on my right ear.
May I ask
How is your hearing nowadays?
The briefly made point that it is as if you caught him in the act is what does it for me. The image in the context of accidentally getting seen by him and being in the middle of a pause where we are each frozen, is the most horrifying part to me. His eyes communicate in this moment: "you don't understand" as well as "I have to kill you next" at the same time.
"A monster looking out from a dark wall in a dark room" Ok bad idea to watch at night "chewing" WORST IDEA! *throws laptop*
200 years after the painting was done, here's a video that, while trying to explain it, became an extension of the piece on it's own right. Sublime work.
Thanks for putting words to my thoughts.
There’s the joke about being able to “hear pictures” and all that, but honestly that feeling is what disturbs me the most about this painting. The noises it implies.
The gnashing through flesh and against bone. The squelching of blood, and ripping of skin. The desperate gasping and groaning past the excessive mouthful of his own child’s flesh. All echoing against what appears to be the walls of a dark damp cave...
And this video’s fantastic sound editing did not help.
For fucks sake
ltshep the one time I do not want to be “immersed” in a video or painting.
Goya can’t hear pictures, he can’t hear anything
i just imagine chicken wings asmr eating sounds lol
666 likes. Huh
The lost Bob Ross painting.
It was a happy little accident.
A happy little titan...
Hah. I think there's a good idea there, Bob Ross making dark art.
“We don't make mistakes, just demonic little accidents.”
“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a fiend.”
“I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals and demons. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.”
“Let's get crazy.”
“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it ”
― Bob Ross
The last one is real
The scariest part is just the food crunching in the beginning lol.
I love this interpretation! I was always told in my art history classes that it was more about him reaching his death. Saturn was the god of time, so in this painting it could also be interpreted as his feelings of time "eating" him. As you said he wasnt in the best shape when he painted these works, so it would be understandable that he would show death as a slow and painful thing.
Except "Chronos" was different from "Cronus". Chronos was the god of time and Cronus, or Saturn was different.