Ep. 58 - Odili Donald Odita's "Cut" (2016)

The Lonely Palette

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

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Betcha never realized how deeply color colored your world - and the world - until you found yourself dancing down the diagonal of this showstopping print. This episode was produced in partnership with the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition "Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities" is on view until July 31, 2022. Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Valley VX,” “Forgot His Jam,” “Dear Myrtle,” “Lakeside Path,” “Paramo Ocho,” “White Limit,” “Bivly” See the images: https://bit.ly/3MzWc47 Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke.
0:03.0	Audio Collective.
0:07.0	Should I describe like the collars?
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	Okay.
0:14.0	They are a mixture of bright and more muted colors.
0:20.0	There's sort of a crazy arrangement of colors with this magenta and a teal and various
0:25.4	colors of mustard and orange but they work so beautifully together.
0:31.6	The first thing that stands out is a very dramatic movement of various colors.
0:38.0	Like, it's like a kind of a cross between an arm wrestle and a ballet. It's a unified kind of arm wrestle.
0:44.8	There's a vibrancy there to that choice of colors.
0:48.1	There's warmth.
0:50.4	Turquoise and the teal. It's like a sky blue. Mint, I don't know if it's mint green and sort of a slate blue.
0:59.0	I don't know if that's my eyes, just being liars.
1:04.0	A blue that I can see my kitchen has painted that color.
1:08.0	It kind of reminds me of the 60s.
1:11.2	I think just because the color palette has that like more retro feel. I don't know when I
1:17.8	see like that color teal I just think of like a kitchen from like the 60s and 70s and then mixed with like a
1:26.9	magenta and then the mustard color I think we can kind of like think of like
1:32.3	furniture and like appliances that were mustard colors.
1:36.8	It's more of like the contemporary take on what that era was. The colors are in these like geometric pieces and they look a lot like like
1:48.7	stained glass. It reminds me a lot of flames like flames emanating from a log in a fireplace or something like that.
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