The paint made from dead people 😳👀 #interesting #artist #art #painting #paint #history #facts

[bekahart]

Hey guys! So I would like to apologize for a case of extremely poor wording in this video. I use the term “wacky” at the end of this video, but I really meant to use a term like “peculiar” or “extremely odd.” Frankly, I didn’t realize that “wacky” has the connotation of something being funny or amusing. That is totally my bad- I should have double checked the proper denotation of the word before using it so casually. What I intended to say was that this is a tragic and deeply fascinating part of art history that needs to be remembered. Love you all, thank you for watching. 💜

[marsfeathers]

The reasons mummies are rare is literally because of this, and because people ATE THEM

[satanlucifer]

Mummies used to be a lot more common, but then people started using them as medicine, paint and alot of other things.

[Twilaiscrazy]

Honestly I know it's awful that people would disrespect the dead like this, but how creative people were and still are is baffling to me and I'm so glad that I can learn more with you.

[ghastdroid]

This sounds like my next hyperfixation

[rikkiroush]

I wonder how someone goes from, "look at this insanely well-preserved ancient body!" to "let's grind it up and use it for paint!" Like, tf?

[RukoHanaji]

When Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones found out the name of the paint was actually literal, he was completely horrified. Supposedly he held a ceremonial burial for the tube of mummy brown in his own garden.

[RIOTCOSPLAYS]

"Go play with your grandmother"

*whips out the paint set*

[othrwrldlysystm]

donating my body to science so i can become mummy brown

[trilobite-knight]

Its the supplementing it with bodies of "criminals" (often poor people) or enslaved people to me. Literally a diabolical desecration of humanity.

[flamevix]

I can imagine using actual mummy paint may have opened up doors to cursed paintings.

[xxhaiydvexx]

Historians and Archaeologists throwing up crying and seizing all at once

[Aaaaaaarrrpirate]

Fun fact: there was an artist who didn’t know it was literally mummy brown he had been using for years, and when he found out he went and buried all of his tubes of expensive mummy brown paint in his garden 😂

[lawgirl]

That's not even the worst thing they did with the mummies

[Kira-xszv]

I feel like a culture could have use their dead as a color but more in a respectful way, like immortalizing them in a continuous painting made from the mummies of each generation. Painting them in a big picture in heaven with the things they loved on this realm.

But how the humans did it is nothing short of disrespectful and horrifying. Shame to those that did it.

[ariwoodshany]

Correct me if I'm wrong but it was also expensive, especially as they started to become scarse.

They also ate ground up mummies as a medicine. Which lead to a tone of fake mummies. Also expensive.

Ghost has a song called Mummy Dust which is about the greed of people selling real and fake mummified corpses. And greed in general.

[musical_costumer]

I can't believe my ancestors probably saw a mummy and went "ooo ima eat that."

[ruriva]

Tbh I can see being turned into paint as being one of those alternative funeral proceedings, or like how they turn ashes into diamonds or stones, being turned into paint or something sounds like it could happen in the future.

[DanielleBaum]

I had an art history prof teach us about it! ... I think she was trying to warn us not to mess with the painting professor?

[rossnieto]

I'm a collector of old antiquities and I do have to say, an original Mummy brown with paint still has eluded my grasp for some years now. I've always been a fan, of the history not the process of coarse. I do have original radium paint in a led pig, but I do not handle that