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Don't 'get' art? You may be looking at it wrong

Life Kit

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Business, Health & Fitness, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Art professionals explain how to look at paintings and sculptures like an expert — and how to make the most out of a museum visit. This episode originally published January 10, 2023.

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0:25.3

Hey everybody, it's MaryL.

0:30.1

A little while back, our digital editor, Malika Grebe,

0:34.3

saw this viral TikTok video of a young woman looking at an oil painting

0:38.9

at an art museum titled The Execution of Lady Jane Gray.

0:44.3

It tells the story of the final moments of Lady Jane,

0:47.9

who is beheaded for treason at the age of 17.

0:51.4

In the painting, she's blindfolded and unsteadily

0:54.6

feeling her way toward the chopping block.

0:57.2

And I thought that it was kind of incredible how you can see this look

1:02.1

on the TikTokers face, how moob she was by the painting.

1:06.4

Even though it was hundreds of years old,

1:08.8

she was able to relate to something in the piece

1:11.6

of this woman being executed.

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