![]() The painting by French artist Georges de la Tour and is titled Magdalen with the Smoking Flame. There it was, casually loitering between the pages, just waiting for me to find it! And now, after I had pushed my quest to the back burner, I had all the answers I needed. Since I wanted to finish the film, I put my quest aside for a while to focus on other, more relevant quests (like getting groceries and filing taxes).īut then last week I was flipping through my art history textbook when-miracle of miracles-I saw the painting. It’s a real painting! I tried Googling, but nothing really came up at first (I used pathetic search keywords). But now I realized…I had seen that painting somewhere before. When Ariel sings “What’s a fire, and why does it/What’s the word? Burn?” For my entire childhood I thought that it was just a random painting that Ariel had found chilling in the ocean somewhere. I was watching The Little Mermaid, casually singing along to “Part of Your World” like anyone else would, not expecting my life to be changed in any huge way. The Mystery Painting in “The Little Mermaid” c/o And this viewing is what led to my quest to unearth just how much Disney relies on art history, starting with the mystery painting in The Little Mermaid. And I’m pretty sure after re-watching The Little Mermaid that whoever’s in charge of artwork over there had a pretty extensive education in art history as well. ![]() Disney almost certainly has a crack team of artists working for them. ![]()
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