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Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints

Galatea's Surprise

Oil/liquin on linen, 30” x 45”, 2012

The artist working with the model in the studio is an old story. Some time ago I became intrigued with Gerome’s Pygmalion and Galatea in the Met collection. Pygmalion was a Greek mythological sculptor who lamented he couldn’t find the idealized female model who would enable him to sculpt the perfect work. Pygmalion decided the only thing he could do was to take parts he saw as perfect from various models and put them into a composite image. It worked so well that Pygmalion fell in love with his perfect sculpture, embraced it, and it, she, came to life. The part missing in the myth is provided by Melina Macouri in Milos Forman’s film Never on Sunday, where she says, “and they all went to the sea shore, had a picnic, and lived happily
ever after.”