So you want to see art more often than you do, or maybe you just want a fresh perspective on art you’ve seen before. Join your host, Sydney, on a slow tour through an art gallery. Every season will have a theme and each episode will be dedicated to one artwork. You’ll get a brief history of the artist before the description of the work and then you’ll get to hear Sydney’s thoughts on it. Because Sydney is a casual art fan you won’t hear overly complicated technical terms, or if you do then you’ll get an explanation of what the term means in plain English.
Long Live Bat Art is seasonal, with 16 episodes a season posted every other Friday from the first Friday in July to 32 weeks later. The rest of the calendar year is the offseason.
Follow me on Twitter, tumblr, and Instagram at Long Live Bat Art.
My own website is longlivebatart.com
So you want to see art more often than you do, or maybe you just want a fresh perspective on art you’ve seen before. Join your host, Sydney, on a slow tour through an art gallery. Every season will have a theme and each episode will be dedicated to one artwork. You’ll get a brief history of the artist before the description of the work and then you’ll get to hear Sydney’s thoughts on it. Because Sydney is a casual art fan you won’t hear overly complicated technical terms, or if you do then you’ll get an explanation of what the term means in plain English.
Long Live Bat Art is seasonal, with 16 episodes a season posted every other Friday from the first Friday in July to 32 weeks later. The rest of the calendar year is the offseason.
Follow me on Twitter, tumblr, and Instagram at Long Live Bat Art.
My own website is longlivebatart.com
Sydney has stopped at the painting Twelfth Night by Jan Steen for today’s episode. The painting shows a lively party, so listen to Sydney tackle the 15 people depicted, the background, and foreground. She also talks about texture, her thoughts on the inebriated, and how the past links to the present through something crucial.
The sources used for the information on Jan Steen are
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/jan-steen-6956.php#:~:text=Jan%20Steen%20was%20born%2C%20in%201626%2C%20in%20Leiden%2C,was%20the%20eldest%20of%20the%20couple%E2%80%99s%20eight%20children
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-Havickszoon-Steen
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1220.pdf
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/our-masters/jan-steen/
Gudlaugsson, S. (1945). The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries
Liedtke, W. (2007). Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Steen, Jan Havicksz". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1901.html
The transcript of this episode can be found at https://longlivebatart.tumblr.com/post/723414926218100736/episode-2-twelfth-night
Artist biography: 0:36
Description of art: 3:51
Thoughts: 15:40
Challenge: 17:29