Episode 71: Looking Back on 10 Years of The Lonely Palette (with Julie Shapiro)
The Lonely Palette

Episode 71: Looking Back on 10 Years of The Lonely Palette (with Julie Shapiro)

B1IntermediateJune 23, 20261 hr 25 min
  • Arts & culture

"Art isn't what you see. It's what you help others see." - Edgar Degas | "Close your eyes/sometimes it helps." - Rhianna A little over ten years ago, on May 4th, 2016, I swallowed hard and hit publish on my very first episode of The Lonely Palette. I had the domain, I had the website, I had a mic and closet, and I had a dream. Public radio, someday, but for now, speak the art history lecture I'd always wanted to hear in school, the one that would remind people that artists were human beings too, and that...

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Art is not generally usually my thing, I guess, but I like to visit museums, you know, to be cultured, I guess, to see what's, I mean, I do enjoy certain types of art. Describing this painting. Describe what your face just did. Wide-eyed and, yeah.

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It looks like something I did, doesn't it? I would be disappointed if I painted like that. I'd have to fix this. I don't see it.

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Okay, so I read the thing and it says that's the hair in the top left corner, but I don't see the face. You know, the more I look at this, the more I see her. We don't know what she's thinking.

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