Ep. 63 - James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl" (1861-62)

The Lonely Palette

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

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Whether for his critics, his friends (...?), or his canvases, the Victorian-era, Gilded-age Aesthetic ex-pat painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler had one motto: float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. See the Images: https://bit.ly/3PMpK3o Music Used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Slate Tracker,” “Laser Focus,” “The Griffiths,” “Crumbtown,” “Discovery Harbor,” “Leave the TV On,” “Pickers,” “Caraval, “Lady Marie” Support Hub & Spoke's Independence Fundraiser: www.hubspokeaudio.org/july4

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke.
0:03.0	Audio Collective.
0:09.0	What's that?
0:10.0	What's that? It's the sound of our first ever Hub and Spoke Independence Day fundraiser.
0:18.5	Help us light the fuse to support independent audio and toss us $4, $44, $144, let's go nuts.
0:28.0	End it in four, we'll take it.
0:30.0	Stay tuned to the end credits for more information or give now at hub spoke audio
0:35.2	or or slash July 4 or click on the link in the show notes. But first the episode.
0:43.0	I'm...
0:45.0	I'm... I see a young...
0:50.0	I see a young woman, maybe in her early 20s or late teens, she seems to quite young,
1:00.4	and she's standing quite plainly in a long flowing white dress and it's long and
1:06.1	rectangular so it just really shows like the length of the lady. It's quite beautiful
1:10.9	and her hair this brilliant red-colored hair,
1:15.0	kind of dishevelled.
1:16.0	It's not neatly quaffed, I guess.
1:19.0	Striking red hair, it's almost like a fox's hair.
1:22.0	She's holding a white flower in her left hand.
1:25.0	Behind her is, looks like, maybe very thick white curtains.
1:29.0	She's almost fading into the curtain,
1:32.0	but her red hair really makes her stand out so you
1:36.9	get the sense that she's got a lot of power and strength to be all in white and
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