Podcast
Color Wheel
Hosted by Nina Piper · ENGLISH
Stories about great paintings by contemporary women artists. Each episode features a single extraordinary painting and describes what the painting is about and why it’s so interesting.
6episodes
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Portrait of My Mother, Part II
Aug 5, 202400:15:05Tap to summarizeFlorine Stettheimer, Portrait of My Mother, 1925
Transcribe →Portrait of My Mother
Jul 25, 202400:13:29Tap to summarizeFlorine Stettheimer tells her mother’s story using flattened shapes set atop a patterned background. It’s an homage and a modernist masterpiece,
Transcribe →Mickalene Thomas – A Little Taste Outside of Love
Sep 24, 201900:28:24Tap to summarizeDo I exist? Am I important? Am I beautiful? Find validation in the art of Mickalene Thomas. Mickalene Thomas redefines female physical perfection in a collage-inspired painting of a nude woman with a gaze that transfixes her audience.
Transcribe →Caitlin Keogh – Intestine and Tassels
Jun 29, 201900:23:07Tap to summarizeKeough’s dimensionless painting is deceptively simple, full of layered meaning, and funny. Have you ever noticed that when you look at a painting, your eye moves in a circle, always looking at the same details in the same order? This painting, which looks like a simple line illustration of an armless mannequin, fills me with ideas and emotions in a very specific order. In this episode I talk about Keogh’s methods and why they inspire so much thought and self-reflection.
Transcribe →Lisa Yuskavage – Northview, 2000
Jun 29, 201900:17:05Tap to summarizeLisa Yuskavage’s painting of a semi-nude young woman lost in thought fills me with excitement and makes me wonder, “am I supposed to be feeling like this?” and “can other people read my feelings as I look at it?” In this episode I talk about Yuskavage’s themes and methods, and why it can be simultaneously so difficult and enjoyable to look at her work.
Transcribe →Maria Lassnig – You or Me
Jun 29, 201900:13:43Tap to summarizeThis 85-year-old woman is not happy, and I know exactly how she feels. This nude self-portrait by the twentieth-century painter Maria Lassnig, painted in glowing colors, captures a moment of desperation in the artist’s life. In this episode I explore what the artist was thinking when she made this painting and why it meant so much to me.
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