Ep. 6 - Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of a Woman" (1910)

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🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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You think your seven-year-old could paint this indecipherable abstract Cubist painting? Well, it's not abstract, it's totally understandable, and... he couldn't. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/7/19/episode-6-pablo-picassos-portrait-of-a-woman-1910 Music used: Paolo Pavan, “Blue Night Dance” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Balti", "The Rampart", "Steadfast", "Beast on the Soil" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” Heftone Banjo Orchestra, "Peaceful Henry"

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0:00.0	I see all sorts of shades of brown and some gray. It looks somewhat architectural.
0:12.0	If I didn't know the title, I would think that it was a painting It looks somewhat architectural.
0:12.8	If I didn't know the title, I would think that it was a painting of a city in the rain.
0:17.2	Yeah, I see an office building and I see a window.
0:26.4	I don't know. Looks kind of like clouds passing in the sky a lot of it so you know very Picasso but it's very confusing you know.
0:30.6	You know?
0:40.0	The title is Portrait of a Woman, so I'm looking at it and I'm seeing curves emerge. A Portrait of a Woman?
0:42.0	It's abstract.
0:44.0	You know, if that wasn't the title and it was a different title,
0:48.0	I don't know, would you try and make something else?
0:50.0	Maybe.
0:52.0	I don't see it.
0:55.0	Okay, so I like I read the thing and it says that's the hair in the top left corner, but I don't see the face.
1:02.0	I can vaguely make out maybe her shoulders. You know, the more I look
1:06.2	at this, the more I see her. Geometric squares, angles that sort of are blending together
1:12.0	to build a body.
1:14.0	Obviously the artist had a little bit of a deeper sense of a woman than I do. This is the lonely Palat, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one painting at a time.
1:39.0	I'm Tamara Vichai. of you're
1:45.0	6 Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman from 1910
1:50.0	and say you understand.
1:53.0	More than any other modern artist,
1:58.0	more than any other modern artist,
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