Me: lying in my hospital bed, thinking I'm on my way to recovery Doctor: " bonjour, this is Théodore Géricault, he's going to study and sketch you for a little while if that's alright with you" Me: looks at the camera
@@DesireeCeleste and I came back to do the same thing an hour later 🤣 on 3 we need to all comment the first thing that comes to mind so we can be sure we don't all share a brain. (And if we _do_ share a brain, we should let a corpse artist paint it)
As long as my body isn't mutilated, go ahead and use my corpse as a model for art or photography prior to burial. Also, only dress me in a black lace dress, I literally do not want to be caught dead in anything else.
That’s also why I’m not bothered about being an organ donor. If they can find something of use that will work and help someone else live a fuller, happier, and healthier life, bloody have at it! I’m only gonna be buried and be worm food and rot away and help nature regrow anyway, what need do I have for my organs?
I hope you do an Iconic Corpse episode about the Siberian Ice Maiden. I would really like to hear about how her tattoos stayed so clear for over 2,500 years.
I once fell off a ladder at work. Falling into my forehead I was knocked out and bled all over the place in front of me. I told the company they could use the photos that were taken for safety purposes. They didn't. What a shame. I'm just a statistic after all.
Thanks to you I’m talking to my daughter about death and she’s feeling better about it. Been a rough year with too many lost loved ones for an 11 year old, so as a result she has been having nightmares and lots of anxiety. Today we walked past our local family run funeral parlor and it was nice and peaceful. She’s even taken an interest in a career that “cares for family’s and friends loved ones” I feel more at ease as well thank you!
My favorite piece is Caravaggio's "David with the Head of Goliath." He managed to realistically paint his own severed head as "Goliath," and it is fascinating. #CatEatEyeballs
My mother passed away on the 11th. I took her to the crematory on the 15th. The information and strength I drew from you was invaluable. Thank you from a Canadian deathling 🍁💜
😞 I know there are no words that can comfort in the loss of a parent, but I feel for you and am thinking of you. I lost my dad a little over 2 years ago but it still feels like yesterday. It's difficult but I hope you and your family can find peace.❤️✌️
My dad's death anniversary was a week ago and he's been gone 6 years, I can't tell you much but from what I can tell you after a bunch of time has passed since a parents passing know that its a guarantee mind you cliche but its true that the pain hurt and anguish will fade in time, every day just a tiny bit less until its a controlled sadness that you can feel without it taking over
I'm sorry for your loss. My Grammy was my Mom, and I had her until she was 98.5 years old, she was 'with it' until the last week, and I can totally empathize with you. My world hasn't been the same, and I never expect it to be. I was so very fortunate to have had her that long, and at the risk of being ridiculed I KNOW I'll see her again on the other side. Yes, I believe in Jesus and a place called Heaven. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Caitlin's information helped me so much too when I helped my mom arrange pre payment for two direct cremations for herself and my Dad. The funeral home charged her $14,000 for this. No viewings or funerals, just direct cremations. Thanks to this channel I went in and renegotiated, saving my Mom over $10,000 for the same exact services. My Dad ended up passing away unexpectedly just two months later. I'm so glad it was taken care of. A fellow Canadian 🌸🌸🌸
I lost it when she went over the Sedlec Ossuary! Been wanting to go for so. Long. Now. It's a way to honor the dead, as if to say 'even in death, you're appreciated, remarkable, beautiful.' That's my view on it. I'm sure there are lots of people mortified.
I thought for sure Caitlin would talk about those modern-day exhibits, where donated corpses are skinned and the muscles and tendons plasticized. Then they are posed and displayed.
@@cakes4494 apparently not all of them are. There was a scandal about some of those body exhibitions using Chinese corpses that couldn’t be verified if they were or were not executed prisoners. Just watched a doc about it the other day.
@@cakes4494 I might not be thinking of the same thing, but that's the main issue that I've seen being discussed in these situations. The person will have consented to donating their body, which legally puts everyone in the clear, but the specifics on how that body would be used are bizarre enough that it calls into question whether it still would have been okayed if the person knew what their corpse would be used for. You're signing a lot over when you donate your body, and people are often misled about what exactly that entails
As an artist myself, I might be open to my body being used to study art or as a reference for art. Kind of feels like you're being immortalized forever.
I went to a Gunther von Hagens exhibition in 2015. It was chilling in a beautiful way... My mother dislikes anything death/wound related (couldn't even wear skull t-shirts near her) and I didn't have any friends to come with at the time so I went alone. I remember the silence inside, lights only pointing at the bodies and a peaceful music playing. I looked at every body, in awe of just how complex we are underneath. It's one thing to know and another to see; it was the first time I saw a dead person since I was five in my grandad's funeral. I remember wondering about every person - how they lived, what they felt, how they would have felt, had they seen what their bodies had become. I also thought "I want this done to me after I die - immortalize me so other decades to come can also experience the marvel I felt!". One day, I hope of seeing a live dissection. Our bodies are wonderful - both in life and in death.
I met Caitlin tonight at The Boston Public library and the experience was perfect from start to finish. Her lecture was amazing and I was able to ask her a question during a Q + A. She’s so well spoken and down to earth. The crowd was great and the staff was helpful and kind. The event was extremely well organized and Caitlin took the time to meet her fans, take pictures, and sign books. I’m grateful I was able to meet her in such a beautiful setting amongst some really cool people. If you’re able to see her in a city near you I highly suggest you go!
Jatome in her last video she did mention that the 4th installment of Cadaver Crimes would be Patreon exclusive-but I reckon she’s been busy with her upcoming book
Hello again Caitlin , I have been spreading your U.Tube thingy to my students who ask me too many questions about death 😈😈😈 therefore I avoid parents anger and reports . Ha ! Ha! Ha! I am an intelligent articulate Anglo / Irish grandma and more than happy to put the blame on you . Quote " I'm only human after all , don't put the blame on me " unquote. ..tis my 20yr old grandchilds fave song @ present . You may have many new teenage subscribers 😆😆 and many angry parents 😈😈😈 . Many thanks. ..we love you here in the Emerald Isle . Republic. ..of course , with a name like yours we could be related .
I've got a good one for you, Caitlin! #CatEatEyeballs Shakespeare and live theatre count as art, right? David Tennant played Hamlet on stage and actually used a real skull in the "Alas, poor Yorick!" scene...best part is, the skull was donated by André Tchaikowsky who explicitly stated he wanted his own skull used in the live play after his death. Yay for consent! The skull was used for live performances and also featured in the 2009 film-version of Hamlet. You can see the scene here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-On14CIYwpyE.html I know it's not a painting or sculpture, but theatre is also art! Anyway, cheers to you for making great videos and writing important, fun books :)
He couldn't gaze into the future but he did gaze at corpses. Life wasn't a breeze, but I'm sure there was a breeze on that raft. DEFINITELY trouble from a distance.
I'm obviously way too late for the giveaway, but I want to mention Anita Dube's "Blood Wedding," sculptural art where she covered human bones in red velvet, beads, and lace. Done shortly after he doctor father's death by cancer, the bones were apparently taken from his estate, where he kept them for study. It's beautiful, but also brings up questions of ethics - like most death art.
Me at the beginning of the video: Why don't they just push the corpses in the water? They'd have more space and less rotting flesh. Caitlyn:"...the tales of desperation and cannibalism" Me: Ooooh... That's why... ok...
Could also be because they wanted to bury them properly if anyone survived. I don't know of burials would have been important to them depending on time period and culture but it's a possibility.
Cannibalism and also being socially attached, and wanting to take your dead kin home... in the case of the dying having some undue hope? Maybe your best friend (secret lover?) will survive??
me, breathing my last breaths in a French hospital: hey doctor who’s that guy Doctor: Don’t worry, he’s just an artist here to sketch your dying and eventually dead body Me: oh
🎶 The middle ages were maagiiicc 🎶 Hahahahahahaha!!!! Thank you for not letting it die. It makes me laugh so hard every single time and that one caught me off guard haha
I remember studying Gericault in my art history class! It's hard to ever forget the Raft of the Medusa painting, or the story of Gericault's, um....methods, lol. But HOLY CATS that stabbed guy photo is gonna stick with me. Just....damn. Nope nope nope nope nope NOPE.
My mom used to make real caskets for my deceased pets when I was a child. She would pose them with wings/paws across their chest. A single flower in their wings/paws. They would look like how people are buried. She made them tiny grave stones and crosses. #catEatEyeballs
@@johasnolife5121 my grandfather did the same thing when he was alive. Not only for our pets but for the pets of other people we knew; he once made a full casket for a tarantula that my history teacher at the time had owned for many years.
Caitlin, well done, very thoughtfully constructed video as always. But I was surprised there was no mention of Gunther von Hagens and his Body Worlds exhibitions that have informed, intrigued and outraged in probably equal measure around the world over the last few decades. You could well devote an entire edition to what he does and what it tells us about differing attitudes towards mortality and human corpses.
i love this video so much. I'm in love with baroque and renaissance art and this is definitely something that's seen a lot in these eras. Kinda shows how intimate they were with their own mortality due to the lack of medical and technological advances they had and kinda pushes them to get face to face with death. anyways love your channel! just stumbled across it a few days ago and i'm definitely hooked. thanks for the interesting content and you should definitely do more death in art videos!!
@@PeachPlastic Dennis Nilsen. From Wikipedia: "These fantasies gradually evolved to incorporate his own near-death experience with the Arab taxi driver, the dead bodies he had seen in Aden, and imagery within a 19th-century oil painting entitled The Raft of the Medusa..." I heard about it from Last Podcast on the Left.
"Ophelia" by Sir John Everett Millais, depicting the drowning death of Ophelia from Hamlet. It has some interesting stories behind it like how the model, Elizabeth Siddal, had to pose in a bathtub of water for hours over several months, kept warm by oil lamps underneath. One time they went out, and she got really sick and the artist faced legal action from her father. #CatEatEyeballs
I could sit and absorb all you have to say and never tire of your well spoken words. You have an amazing channel, your hard work and time is very appreciated. Huge fan from Canada
This was fascinating and entertaining and well done and I loved every moment, it was like having a conversation about this subject from every angle. And I love your hat 💚
There is a line regarding corpse art without consent. In my opinion, using parts that aren't identifiable is riding that line, while stuff like 15:44 is definitely crossing it. That is exploitation of a dead body, not art. If I were a dead body and my arm or my bones were used in art, I wouldn't particularly care, but if my fresh, clearly identifiable corpse was immortalized in photography without my consent, I would haunt that "artist". GIVE ME MY PRIVACY GODDAMMIT.
despairia this was back the so stuff was different but imagine being a parent and going to an art museum and seeing a perfect painting of your dead son or something
Just when I thought it was safe to drink water: "Without corpses, Michael Angelo wouldn't be Michael Angelo." (Throws up a photo of Michael Angelo that's green with a mask) . Yeah, I nearly snotted water all over the screen.
Wasn’t expecting to have my suppressed nerd and/or love for art brought out when I started watching this one, and still not sure how I feel at the end of it all. 👍
Gotta say, seeing the Mona Lisa was really underwhelming. It’s beautiful, but I spent most of my time in line not anxiously trying to peep over peoples shoulders, but looking at the pretty paintings. I was really fascinated by the sculptures we saw after seeing the Mona Lisa. That’s my rant on art, also I took a picture of the one you talked about because it was pretty
My condolences, I dealt with the loss of my best friend and partner back when I was a teen. I highly recommend talking to a therapist to help you through it, or at the very lest, look up some psychology worksheets for grief. Hang in there.
This was, like ALL your videos, incredibly informative and fascinating! I can say I have 'knowledge' in 65% of your videos (of which you always refresh my memory and teach me more in watching them) but I know nothing about art, not this kind of art at least; ok not paintings/drawings, but I know creativity in many forms. Anyway, I had no idea so many masterpieces and lesser knowns were depicted from actual corpses. That gives me a whole new outlook on it, so thank you!
I really like the arworks of the Viennese contemporary artist Harrald Koeck. He is also the type who is visiting hospitals, dissecting rooms etc. to make his works more realistic. Love the eeriness of his paintings. You guys should really check him out!
I wrote a whole paper on Théodore Géricault! I absolutely love his gruesome art. He’s a great combination of my love of morbid subjects and art history. 💗💀
I have loved your channel for many years, the amount of work you put into every video is amazing I am doing a degree in illustration and this video mainly sums up what I am writing my dissertation on Thank you so much for your ideas and inspiration
Millie Warner your comment reminds me of that one character on Family Guy - the foreigner who explains every joke. "Ha ha, is funny because is reference to Prince song with same name of raspberry beret because she is wearing it in the RU-vid video!"
5:35 - 5:37 *"Artsy, Fartsy, Corpsey, Project."* 💀 ROTFLMAO! 😂 This has just become my new favorite death related line from Catlin. It made me laugh *so* much! Though I think my neighbors now think I'm a nutbar that needs to be committed. For laughing like a maniac at midnight at it. (I live in Australia & it's just after midnight here.) Oh well C'est La Vie! 😜
Great topic. My med school had an art program for bio-illustration. The art students would study the cadavers we were dissecting. They also created all the cover art for our class notes and syllabi. I always thought it was a fascinating intersection of art and science.
I honestly have a guilty pleasure type appreciation for the sculptures and other things made out of Bones of skeletons. It's oddly gorgeous. It feels practical and useful of an otherwise unused thing. It takes parts of people that don't really breakdown in decomposition and so it's pretty cool to find use for them as decoration, furniture or any sort of clever ideas. I like finding a better, healthier, more open connection to death then our current situation in society is, where we are so disconnected, detached and repulsed by something completely natural in life and exists all around us. It's shouldn't be a bad thing to have a healthy connection, expression, perspective on death and how to treat it and it's processes.
Made my University's thesis about death in art history, I wish I discovered your YT Channel before, it could helped me a lot :') Thanks for what you do, greetings from Italy
My favorite instance of death in art is “Judith and Her Maidservant” by Artemisia Gentileschi. Love me two hard core women going for the blood of terrible men #cateateyeballs
Okay I've been watching your videos for years and missed this one?? When I was an art student I got obsessed with the raft of the medusa because of the story behind it, I'm so hyped to see it in a video!
This video reminded me of something I learned in band. The composer, Percy Grainger, had it put in his will that after he died, he wanted his bones to be made into a wind chime so he could continue to make music, even in his death. There's my little fun death fact. IDK if you knew this or not, Caitlin, but I thought you might enjoy it with all the other deathlings.
I remember going to the Louvre and my dad called me over to this painting and pointed out to me how realistically the bodies were painted and we both spent a long time looking at it while most people walked by. It gave me chills and I could hardly look away. It was one of thousands of brilliant works of art and I never expected to see it again unless I went back to the museum. Honestly I’m glad the painting’s gotten the recognition it deserves.
