Ep. 62 - Helen Frankenthaler's "Madame Butterfly" (2000)

The Lonely Palette

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

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Splotches, spills, and stains. They can evoke shapes, moods, energy, even music. Yet no one seemed to appreciate their very beauty with the same intuitive, delicate flair as Helen Frankenthaler, who created something fiercely new "between cocktails and dinner," or, more accurately, between the broad shoulders of a relentlessly masculine movement. Not bad for a saddle-shoed girl a year out of Bennington. See the images: https://bit.ly/3ChhuAE Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Bedroll,” “A Common Pause,” “Palms Down,” “Desmontes,” “Delamine,” “Greylock,” “Angel Tooth,” “Dear Myrtle” Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Episode sponsor: The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments: https://bit.ly/43Qp1SJ Support the show! www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Register for our Hub & Spoke live show in Woodstock, VT on June 15: https://normanwilliams.org/events/podcasts-a-listening-event/

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke.
0:03.0	Spoke.
0:04.0	Audio Collective.
0:07.0	This episode is supported by Yale University Press's The Art of Color,
0:16.0	The History of Art in 39 pigments.
0:19.0	And look, there is a lot to remember when you're studying art history, names and titles and dates and more dates.
0:27.3	And it's hard to imagine on top of that, knowing the precise historical names for the pigments that Van Gogh used,
0:34.8	where or when they were discovered,
0:36.8	or the complex processes necessary to make them palette ready
0:41.2	to create the pulsing power of the Starry Night. But what if we did know
0:47.4	them? This is the idea behind the new book The Art of Color, The History of Art in 39 Py pigments by Kelly Grovier. It tells an
0:56.8	innovative history of art through the biographies of paints and pigments helping
1:01.8	us understand in a new way how the colors in a given artwork affect us.
1:06.0	Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and the unusual,
1:12.0	ultimately enriching our experience of art.
1:15.2	The Art of Color, the History of Art in 39 pigments, is published by Yale University Press
1:20.5	and is available wherever books are sold.
1:30.0	Okay, what am I looking at?
1:31.0	I'm looking at splotches.
1:36.0	White and pink and purple at the bottom.
1:40.0	And it's delicate.
1:42.0	It's an abstract piece. It is not like a Jackson Pollock. It's not aggressive like a Jackson Pollock, but it's light and it's ethereal, that's a word I can use here it's feminine and it's not imposing.
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