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.
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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 engraving Pyramus and Thisbe by
Lucas van Leyden for today’s episode. The artwork shows two young
people, one dying or dead and the other one about to be so. Before you
click away, if you have the mental space for hearing about fictional
suicide Sydney would be grateful.
Listen as Sydney describes the scene, tells a story that features a lioness and love gone wrong, and fate.
Show Notes
The sources used for the information on van Leyden are
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/leyden-lucas-van#:~:text=Lucas%E2%80%99%20surviving%20paintings%20are%20relatively%20few%20in%20number%2C,the%20Blind%20Man%20of%20Jericho%20%28Hermitage%2C%20St.%20Petersburg%29
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucas-van-Leyden
Smith, Elise Lawton (1992) The Paintings of Lucas Van Leyden: A New Appraisal, with Catalogue Raisonné University of Missouri Press ISBN 978-0-8262-0824-8
"Lucas van Leyden | Dutch artist" Encyclopedia Britannica
Friedländer, Max (1924). Lucas van Leyden.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1484.html#works
Max J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting (trans., 5 vols., 1967-1969).
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/leyden-lucas-van
The source used for the information on Pyramus and Thisbe is
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pyramus
The
transcript of this episode can be found at
https://longlivebatart.tumblr.com/post/733432124426895360/pyramus-and-thisbe-by-van-leyden
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Music:
Intro and outro music- soda pop
Transitional music between segments- Atlantis
Underlying music for speaking- Mountain Breeze
https://www.purple-planet.com
History: 00:51
Story: 5:00
Description of art: 6:32
Thoughts: 12:50
Challenge: 16:49