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The Lonely Palette

Ep. 9 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Reclining Nude" (1909)

The Lonely Palette

The Lonely Palette

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

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/9/28/episode-9-ernst-ludwig-kirchners-reclining-nude-1910 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" David Szeszlay, "Night Surfing" Michael Howard, "The Tallest Man in Idaho (Instrumental)" Jason Leonard, "Ritual Twelve" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Stilt", "Manele", "The Provisions" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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0:00.0

Well, when you look at it, the first thing you see is it's very rich sort of jewel tones.

0:07.0

It feels like it was painted very quickly with very large brushes, almost like a child would do.

0:15.0

She's vibrant. She's glowing and it's hot.

0:20.0

The colors are very calming, you know.

0:24.0

You think they're coming?

0:25.0

They're calming. I think they're wild.

0:28.0

I'll be honest, I feel like I'm ready to go out when I see them.

0:31.0

Different colors can create different emotions.

0:35.0

I mean, there's a lot of colors, so you can see so much of what the painter was feeling.

0:40.0

Honestly, I think it's kind of hot, because you see red, so it kind of jumps out of you, it's bold, it's earthly, because there's green,

0:47.0

it's light, because there's blue, it mixes colors, which creates something completely out of the ordinary.

0:52.8

So, and then even the figure and the painting,

0:54.4

the woman is different colors.

0:56.5

She's got a yellow body.

0:59.1

It seems very flat, almost like it's cut out of paper and stuck on.

1:07.0

Makes me feel like it was done too fast.

1:14.0

It's almost like she has kind of a longing look on her face.

1:18.0

So I don't know, it always makes me think that

1:21.0

internet, she looks unfulfilledfilled I think. But like she's

1:24.3

chilling at the same time. So maybe I would say that she may be sad with the world

1:29.6

around her so colorful so she's not so sad after all. We don't know what she's thinking. We don't even

1:35.0

know if that's a female. Shoot. She has a nice butt, but it could be a guy. I'm not

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