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The Lonely Palette

Ep. 18 - JMW Turner's "The Slave Ship" (1840)

The Lonely Palette

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Because it's hard to look directly into the sun. Or yourself. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/5/22/episode-18-jmw-turners-the-slave-ship-1840 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Sunday Lights", "Town Market", "Rapids", "Liptis", "Ballast", "Masonry" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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Where would you get to start?

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So I think the chaos in the ocean is where I would start,

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kind of just shocking. It's like egregious right at first look.

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You just like, whoa, it sucks you right in there.

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It's got fiery colors, which kind of makes me think of a storm.

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That ship in the background looks like there's a big

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humongous ocean and then those look like hands that are like right there and

1:00.5

there's like a sunset over here but like it's getting pretty dark and

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cloudy over there and yeah there seems to be a little bit of wreckage happening in the

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bottom right corner can't really tell what it is. Kind of looks like it's going

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into a storm which kind of maybe caused to people to fall out of the boat.

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Fish and undersea creatures all getting churned up by this very kind of upset ocean.

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How does it make you feel? A little nervous, anxious I guess.

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But then it's kind of juxtaposed by the like beautiful sunset that looks like it's in the background

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because it's not a joyful painting but like there's colors that would give you

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reason to think otherwise.

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