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Edgar Degas was one of the founding members of impressionism,  He hated the term “impressionism” and didn’t want a label. All his paintings were created from memory and imagination – he loved to say that “no art can be less spontaneous than mine.”

Racehorses at Longchamp - a painting of jockeys on their horses hanging about the track at the end of a race was interestingly Degas first work to be bought by an American museum, the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. 

See Racehorses at Longchamp here - https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31229?image=1

HSBC proudly presents “Beyond the Frame” a look behind the bigger picture of some of the world’s most important Impressionist art. In this season we’re looking at the rebellion of the French Impressionists – it wasn’t all dreamy brushwork, but a movement that was rife with bravery, breaking stereotypes and smashing perceptions.  

Across this series we go back 150 years to discover some of the surprising stories behind 6 iconic impressionist artworks, -- one painting per episode.  Warning: this isn’t your usual art history series.

If you like what you hear in your “Beyond the Frame” experience, see these renowned artworks for yourself in the National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, proudly supported by HSBC. Open now until October 3. For tickets visit ngv.melbourne.

For more information on the podcast head to hsbc.com.au/beyond-the-frame.

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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: we go beneath the flowers, the unibrow, the broken body, and the shadow of her marriage, to reframe the fame of Frida Kahlo: the Cult Icon of Humanness.

See the images:
bit.ly/39qX739

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li Fonte,” “Clouds at the Gap,” “Master,” “When the Guests Have Left,” “Curiously and Curiously,” “Thread Ceylon,” “Gondola Blue”
Tinpan Orange, “Song for Frida Kahlo”

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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: you're rooted in place, unable to look away, and questioning everything you thought you know about femininity, self-nourishment, and a woman's right to her own body. Basically, Patty Chang's got you right where she wants you.

See the images:
bit.ly/33DsB4P

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Flatlands 3rd,” “Louver,” “Sino de Cobre,” “Dorica Theme,” “The Dustbin,” “We Shall Know Speed”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: there's no better way to combat a world holding its breath than with a deep lungful of fresh Southwestern air, care of America's most misattributed painter of vagina flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe.

See the images:
bit.ly/39QXvsJ

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cold and Hard,” “Georgia Overdrive,” “Towboat Theme,” “Noe Noe,” “Raskt Landsby,” “Watercool Quiet,” “Cottonwoods”
The Nields, “Georgia O”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: you’ve never noticed the carnality of the body you live in, and the rawness of the emotions that live inside that body, until you find yourself spun into French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois’s web.

See the images:
bit.ly/3axRwIY

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”

The Blue Dot Sessions, “Tiptoe Treadline,” “Gusty Hollow,” “Stately Shadows",” “Jog to the Water,” “Pinky”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: let's join 104-year-old Cuban-American Hard Edge painter Carmen Herrera in celebrating the straight line, not just the shortest distance between two points, but the most infinitely beautiful as well.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…de-no-1-1962

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Throughput,” “Scallat,” “Rally,” “Where It All Happened,” “The Consulate”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

The Lonely Palette is the first podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston!  Our partnership is focused on their ongoing exhibition, "Women Take the Floor," a daring and unflinching effort to bring the women artists - that is, artists - out from the shadows of their permanent collection and onto the floor.  The series will focus on five women over five weeks, beginning Sunday, March 1st.  Please enjoy!

Music used:

Lobo Lobo, "Old Ralley"

Exhibition site:

https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:

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Sure, you've seen it a million times in a million memes, but when was the last time you actually stopped to contemplate the incredible power of this Japanese ukiyo-e print? Or for that matter, the incredible power of a wave itself?

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…awa-18301831

Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Falaal,” “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Ghost Byzantine,” “Moon Bicycle Theme,” “Eleven,” “Clouds at the Gap”
Charles Trenet, “La Mer”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-dos-mujeres

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li Fonte,” “Clouds at the Gap,” “Master,” “When the Guests Have Left,” “Curiously and Curiously,” “Thread Ceylon,” “Gondola Blue”
Tinpan Orange, “Song for Frida Kahlo”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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It isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deeply into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details of his virtuosic portraiture that we make the guards nervous.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…enburgh-1632

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lovers Hollow” “Tailrunner,” “Entwined Oddity,” “Lupi,” “Thannoid,” “Camp Fermin”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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Powder those wigs and ungird those loins: today we're diving deep into the curves, pastels, and licentious yearnings of a ridiculously saucy little style known as Rococo.

See the Images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/9/8/episode-33-jean-honor-fragonard-the-desired-moment-c-1770

Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Mknt”, “The Big Ten”, “Vernouillet”, “Swapping Tubes”, “Line Etching”, “Fern and Andy”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Sponsor:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely

Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette