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🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You walk into a museum, it's a little bit crowded. |
0:07.0 | There are people taking selfies next to famous art. |
0:10.0 | And finally you find yourself, like people in front of a painting like a Jackson Pollack |
0:17.7 | It feels to me like it's ordered chaos |
0:20.7 | Normally I'm usually pretty good at like just saying okay like this is an idea and then extrapolating on it but I'm not getting anything out of this |
0:27.6 | These paintings are all over the place in here |
0:30.7 | squiggles, drips, splotches, splashes. Maybe some cigarette butts stuck into it. |
0:37.0 | Is this something that you have to be, for lack of a better word, enlightened to understand? |
0:42.0 | What is this all about? |
0:45.0 | Is it about anything? |
0:48.0 | And how do you figure out what you're supposed to think or feel about something that seems so random. |
0:54.0 | I'm Abby Jacobson and this is a piece of work. |
1:00.0 | We're talking about abstract art in this episode. |
1:03.0 | And abstract just means any piece of art |
1:06.0 | that doesn't represent some recognizable thing in the world. |
1:09.0 | There's all kinds of abstract art in every medium, but I'm going to be talking about paintings today. Abstract expressionism developed after World War II and at the time a lot of people |
1:30.0 | didn't get it. They thought it looked messy and chaotic. But it's not messy and |
1:35.7 | chaotic. Or maybe it is those things, but that's because life is that way |
1:40.7 | sometimes and shouldn't art reflect that? |
1:45.6 | You can't really mention abstract painting without Jackson Pollock's name coming up. |
1:51.0 | You probably have a picture in your head of what a Jackson Pollack painting looks like, |
1:54.4 | drips and splatters all over it. There's a lot going on. |
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