That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 01, 2024

/// Gérôme sculpted her over life-size.

More heroic to most viewers’ eyes.

This nude’s seared in his sight,

(to get everything right).

Here he concentrates, smoothing her thighs.

The sculptor’s wife had become accustomed to him calling to her ‘stiff’ and ‘cold’ as a complement.

The Natural Robot Pose

Opps, slipped that’s quite a gash, should I fill it?

My eyes are up here.

When Geppetto steps back… Anyone want to guess which direction the model and sculpture are going to go?

The greatest ancient sculptor must have been Medusa. Her statues looked so lifelike, you’d think they were human.

Willie has a brilliant driveway idea after seeing the little jockeys with lanterns.

Tradition (thatijustmadeup) has it that Gérôme dabbled in the Hebrew occult. And fascinated by the interesting possibilities in the Pygmalion-Galatea story, he researched the work of Solomon ibn Gabirol.

That mystic/ misfit/ poet, who lived in the 11th century, is said to have created a female golem for household chores. And so, it is said, he sculpted a representation of Tanagra (Greek Goddess of Women and Marriage) from the model Emma Dupont.

Apparently the embedded inscription that mobilized the female golem was somehow dislodged, and the sculpture reverted to lifeless clay.

Decades later, the golem-making process that Gabirol used was rediscovered and refined, as represented in the insidious technology that made “The Stepford Wives.” (—

His WHAT grows now?!?

I wônder when J-L.Gerôme/

Decided that he wôuld becôme/

A sculptôr ôf nudes/

A Prôvôker ôf prudes/

And my favôrite “dirty ôld hômme”…

“Why do I need to hold my cupped hand exactly at this height?”

Among Gerôme’s numerous quirks/

Depicting the harems of Turks/

As places replete/

With lesbian “heat”/

(Provoking sophisticates’ smirks)..

“Hey, dude, my eyes are UP HERE!”

Somebody call OSHA.

“Your dating profile did say you enjoy ‘art themed’ first dates, but…”

And they will lie to you all you want.

“Hey… Is that a chisel under your apron, or are you just happy to sculpt me?”

Did he study with pygmalion?

Working in Marble or The Artist Sculpting Tanagra: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Stone sculptors at work" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 1,800, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK FRIDAY: MASTERPIECE #1350 (11/25/15) (October 31, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 26 works by him have been used here (28 times total, including this Throwback Friday and another repeat), the November 25, 2015, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The October 23, 2024, strip has the prior by him (the other repeat).

The sight of a deity seared/

Might (in Tim Wals’s words) “appear weird”)/

Unless one’s persuasion

(At les on occasion)//

To pantheist precepts adhered.

Some comments from November 25, 2015:

…

Bilan: The Bride of Pinocchio?

J Short: See those 3 guys on the shelf? That’s how you’ll end up if you don’t stay still.

Coyoty: Samuel Clemens found something better than writing.

PoodleGroomer: The breasts were higher when you started. How long have you been working on this?

Portista: Does this large chunk of marble make my butt look fat?

First, I wondered why the statue is taller than the model.

Then I wondered why I’m looking at the statue.