Ep. 4 - Edgar Degas' "Duchessa di Montejasi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camilla" (c. 1876)

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🗓️ 21 June 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Hey! You there! Don't walk by this seemingly-boring painting. You might miss the 19th century. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/6/21/episode-4-edgar-degas-duchessa-di-montejasi-with-her-daughters-elena-and-camilla-c-1876 Music used: Reynold Philipsek, "Intro and Nuages" (Django Reinhardt cover) The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “A Burst of Light”, “The Silver Hatch” Lee Rosevere, “Wandering” Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” Chris Zabriskie, “Cylinder Four”

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0:00.0	When I look at this painting I see
0:07.0	The left half of the painting is painted in a very different manner from the half of the painting on the right.
0:13.0	Three romance in this picture.
0:16.0	They are in black and their faces are sad.
0:20.0	Almost as it they've just come from a funeral.
0:24.0	One woman standing in front of us looking down.
0:29.0	Very straight backed.
0:32.0	So it's not just your face, but it's her whole body looks like
0:35.0	she's perhaps is in mourning and then what pops out is the women in the
0:40.8	paintings faces they're very pale and there's like a light shown on them.
0:46.2	So you can almost see the sadness and dark in their eyes.
0:51.4	But the lady in the farthest left, her head is turned towards us, and very different from the older woman.
1:00.0	This lady, it seems as if she's more approachable, more inviting.
1:06.0	The daughter's grieving together, but the mother alone in her grieving. This is the lonely palette.
1:35.0	This is the lonely palette. I'm Tamar Evishai. Episode 4, Edgar de Gaz, Dutessa De Montez, with her daughters Elena and Camilla from about 1876. Okay so a caveat.
1:37.0	Okay so a caveat about this one. This is one of my favorite paintings at the
1:48.7	MFA. I mean, why, right? Nobody comes to the museum to see this painting. It's the kind of dreary domestic scene that's only valuable because someone famous painted it that fills the space and rounds out a collection, but in an always a bridesmaid kind of way.
2:05.0	I mean, look at it.
2:08.0	This dower old lady, who is Degas, I kid you not, Aunt Fanny.
2:13.1	Dressed in black sits like a sack of potatoes
2:15.6	in an off-balance composition, staring at us
2:18.2	like we've gotten in her way,
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