LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.1: Abstraction

The Lonely Palette

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

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Lonely Palette is collaborating with the Addison Gallery of American Art in celebration of the museum's 90th anniversary! In this episode, we're using the Addison's collection to explore abstraction, i.e. the one guaranteed way to alienate your visitor. Or...maybe not? Maybe, when it comes to art without a fixed meaning, our presence is requested, and even required? Artists Explored: Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd See the Images: https://bit.ly/34AE9Xw Music Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Pinky,” “Flattered,” “A Little Powder,” “Arizona Moon,” “Daymaze,” “The Summit,” Jason Leonard, “Ritual Six” Further Listening: The Lonely Palette on Jackson Pollock: https://bit.ly/3eUQdsE The Lonely Palette on Jasper Johns: https://bit.ly/3hDFq82 Support the Show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Addison Gallery of American Art. I'm Tamara Vichai, host of the
0:07.6	art history podcast The Lonely Pallet and throughout this three episodes series
0:12.1	Your Guide to the Addison,
0:13.8	as we celebrate its 90th anniversary by looking at some of the most important
0:18.0	and provocative objects in the museum's collection.
0:21.0	Join me on a thematic stroll through the galleries as we poke and probe both what these objects mean to
0:27.3	art history and to each other.
0:30.0	Today, exploring abstraction.
0:33.0	Want to scare someone the minute they walk into your museum gallery?
0:42.0	Tell them the show is about abstraction. the minute they walk into your museum gallery?
0:43.0	Tell them the show is about abstraction.
0:46.0	Now watch them turn heel and run every time.
0:50.0	What is it about this idea of abstraction, of no fixed narrative, of shapes and spatters and
0:59.2	goop with no discernible meaning that strikes so much fear into the hearts of people who just really want to have a pleasant day at the museum.
1:07.6	It's like those three innocuous syllables, abstraction, contain all the trepidation visitors have about not understanding
1:16.7	the art, and run counter to everything people expect art to be, a canvas that disappears under its narrative, or a beautifully rendered
1:26.9	story of stuff.
1:30.9	Abstraction on its face is about none of those things.
1:34.0	It's an experience, not a painting of something.
1:38.0	It's about the elements of painting itself,
1:42.0	not necessarily what those elements are in the service of representing.
1:46.0	It draws attention to the presence, even the two-dimensionality of that canvas,
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