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We are back, we are wide-eyed, almost Bratz Dolls eyed (!) and South of the Border 🇲🇽
This time diving into the work of Rosa Rolanda, who metamorphosis-ized 🦋 from a famous Broadway dancer into a Surrealist late in life.
Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CVdxpnwBc
Along the way she crossed paths with figures like Man Ray. It's likely she even learned the photogram process from him, which she then made uniquely her own. Her photograms feel like intimate journal doodles crossed with the raw energy of punk zines from the early '90s.
She also met her soon-to-be partner and collaborator, the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias—also known as 'El Chamaco.'
Together, they became Mexico's first artistic power couple, predating even Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Their groundbreaking work, the book "Island of Bali," was the first comprehensive account of Balinese culture for the Western world, detailing its art, music, dance, and rituals.
But it's her paintings that have this incredible, haunting feeling of anemoia—a nostalgia for a time you've never known. This gives them a distinct '90s or early 2000s vibe. On the surface, they seem simple and illustrative, but on a second, third, or even fourth look, you start to peel back all these incredible visual and narrative layers."
Topics include:
Bratz Dolls and Crazy Town
Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
the Museo de Arte Moderno
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Smart and Final yellow
Marion Morgan’s Morgan Dancers
Man Ray’s photograms or Rayograms
Rat Fink for some reason
Mexico City’s first artist power couple
Tina Modotti, Nickolas Muray, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera
Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Girls
Miguel Covarribus and Rosa Rolanda’s Island of Bali book from 1937
Las Mañanitas scene from “El Rapto” starring Maria Felix
The 60th Venice Biennale “Foreigners Everywhere”
LACMA’s 2012 exhibition “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States”
And what Visual Art can learn from performative art like dance
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The featured song was “Cascades” from Kris Keogh’s new album Processed Harp Works, Volume 3 on the Japanese imprint - Muzan Editions.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/processed-harp-works-volume-3
The album is amazing - It’s like drifting off in a meditative trance, being brought back to awareness, before drifting again. If you like artists like The Caretaker - you really need to spend time with these albums.
Other tracks featured:
Elvenheim - “At Night” https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Shamil_Elvenheim/momentum
Holizna - “First Snow” https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/album/winter-lo-fi-2
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CREDITS:
Writing and Research by Stephanie Duenas and Russell Shoemaker
Editing, Production and Sound Design by Russell Shoemaker
Logo Design by Russell Shoemaker
Theme by Russell Shoemaker and Betta Music Pro
Ending Theme by Russell Shoemaker and Underwood Beats
Social Media by Stephanie Duenas and Russell Shoemaker
Newsletter by Stephanie Duenas
LISTENERS we’re back with maybe a little glimmer of hope?
“Impossible” you say! Eye Rolls you do!
But after our conversation with Jennifer Dasal of the ArtCurious podcast, we had to ask ourselves, could a historical sanctuary for artists offer a vision for today's creators?
You can WATCH this episode here: https://youtu.be/H42eI7V1eek
In her new book, The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris," Dasal uncovers the story of The American Girls Club of Paris. This remarkable institution provided hundreds of expatriate American women artists with housing, tea gardens, libraries, and—most importantly—dedicated studio and exhibition space.
Far from home and full of ambition, artists like Florence Lundberg, Anne Goldthwaite, Alice Morgan Wright, and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller found refuge and community in this unique "u-topia" (or as we like to call it, a "YOU-topia").
Building Your Modern Creative Community
With resources for artists often scarce, the story of The Club is more vital than ever. It reminds us of the importance of nurturing our creative practices and finding ways to support each other.
Whether it's a physical space or a dedicated online community, we must be generous with our time and energy to foster collective creativity. This episode explores how to carve out these personal utopias, drawing parallels to diverse examples like Mexican chinampas (floating gardens), Kristin Ghodsee’s "Everyday Utopia," and… the…. 00s UK rap group The Streets.
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MUSIC INCLUDES:
“Soul for Sale” by StevenAndolf
“Lighter than Air” by HoliznaCC0
“Limbo” by HoliznaCC0
“Yesterday” by HoliznaCC0
“Hard bay light” by The Library
Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/gK2OcbuE7Oo
When the dazzling German actress Maria Lani arrived in Paris in the late 1920s, her presence set the art world abuzz. She quickly recruited over fifty artists—including Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso (he said no), Man Ray, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger, and Suzanne Valadon—to depict her in paintings, photographs, and sculptures for an upcoming film.
There was just one problem: "Maria Lani" was a construct. She wasn’t a famous actress—she wasn’t even "Maria Lani." So what did she plan to do with all these artworks?
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When Maria Lani disappeared along with the pieces, rumors spread that she had stolen the works and sold them to unsuspecting collectors in the United States. Was this the art heist of the century? Or was something else going on?
We sit down with Author and Illustrator - Jonathan Lackman and Zachary J. Pinson - to uncover the truth—and discuss The Woman with Fifty Faces, a stunning new graphic novel from Fantagraphics that explores the enigmatic life of this maligned figure.
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Mary Cassatt, known for her paintings of women and babies (then and now), made a surprising move to accept a mural commission for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.
This gig was a big deal, especially if you were a younger artist- it could be a career-making move. But when Mary, decades into her own art career, first received the invitation . . .
well, here’s what she had to say:
“When the committee offered it to me to do, at first I was horrified, but gradually I began to think it would be great fun to do something I had never done before and as the bare idea of such a thing put (Cassatt's best frenemy) Degas into a rage and he did not spare every criticism he could think of, I got my spirit up and said I would not give up the idea for anything.”
So . . . maybe a little spite inspired this mural?
Spite and...a surprising reimagining of the story of Eve.
Unfortunately, this mural has been lost to the sands of time...and we're (maybe, foolishly) diving in with the only surviving grainy black and white photos to guide us.
Special thanks to Klaire Lockheart! https://www.instagram.com/klairelockheart
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We highly recommend watching this one if possible as Violeta Parra’s works are so breathtaking and impactful:
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This month, we dive into Violeta Parra’s (1917-1967) multifaceted legacy with her biographer, Ericka Verba.
You can find Ericka’s book, “Thanks to Life” on her website: www.erickaverba.com as well as more Violeta Parra resources.
Violeta’s artistic journey has many parallels to Frida Kahlo’s: both artists began painting while bedridden; drew from their personal experience with the folk arts of their country, Frida in Mexico and Violeta in Chile.
They both lived and worked during a time when their respective countries were at a crossroads and made it their mission to capture the folk culture of their countries:
Frida with a paint brush and Violeta through song, poem, painting and arpilleras (embroidery).
And while most of us have only heard of Frida Kahlo, both artists achieved international fame in their lifetime and their legacies continue to this day.
Violeta Parra became the first Latin American artist (period) to have a solo exhibition at the Louvre in Paris in 1964 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
And more recently, her arpilleras were featured in the 2022 Venice Biennale “Milk of Dreams” which also featured some Art Slice favorites like Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Dorothea Tanning, to name a few.
While she was putting her own twist on this traditional folk medium during her lifetime, arpilleras took on a much different meaning under the brutal, US-backed Pinochet dictatorship several years (1973-1990) after her sudden death (suicide) in 1967:
They became a protest symbol and tool of resistance against the regime for Chilean women, as well as a way for them to grieve their disappeared loved ones.
But before arpilleras, Violeta had become internationally known for her music. When she began her artistic career, she started with painting.
Her paintings explore deep emotions and personal experiences. The planes of color and vague interiors really mind us of Richard Diebenkorn and Florine Stettheimer.
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We’re back with the 2nd dose of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE series, featuring the mysterious 1944 lithograph “Whodunit?” by artist, illustrator, printmaker and children’s book author: Wanda Gág!
We also discuss her work bringing German fairy tale energy to children’s literature in “Millions of Cats” from 1928.
In this episode, we discover Wanda Gag’s life lesson through her winding, warping, wonky, and wobbling images of interiors and landscapes.
Wanda was raised in a Bohemian community of German immigrants in New Ulm, Minnesota, in a house built and designed from scratch in the Queen Anne style by her artist father, Anton Gag.
Wanda’s story really is that of a modern fairytale involving a magical childhood, German Märchen, creative energy, (unfortunately) tragedy, and a coming of age lesson we can all glean from: life is what you make it and despite the forces telling you otherwise, it CAN be full of whimsy and creativity.
Her struggle as a young artist doing commercial work to stay afloat while attending the Art Students League in NYC NYC reminded us a lot of Dorothea Tanning’s story - finding yourself working odd jobs like ‘lamp shading’ for Wanda or serving canapes to men in suits dressed in hula skirt like Dorothea.
The grind is part of being an artist, or really most of us, in the modern world and we found Wanda’s story not only relatable but extremely relevant to our times.
As we learned more about her ethos and way of working, we found that she and Charles Burchfield, another Art Slice fav (ep 12) have SO MUCH in common: their works come from hours of observation of their subjects, beit the mundane indoors or sublime outdoors, and their results complement one another, yin and yang, if you will.
Topics include Howard, non-euclidian fun, Russell’s version of “Kiss the Girl”, dog stables, bedazzled witch boots, and grey soup.
MUSIC:
"FIRE WALK WITH ME" by Kenobit - kenobit.bandcamp.com
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Our SCARY releases continue . . . well, RE-RUN in this case.
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In celebration of our new 2025 Creature Double Feature episodes, we went back to the vault and added VISUALS to our Creature Feature episode with Japanese printmaker Hokusai (1760-1849) and Celtic Spook School alum Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933) and their terrifying contributions to spooky art history.
Both works were inspired by female protagonists who were WRONGED: one from ancient Japanese folklore and the other via the imagination of a fascist Italian playwright.
Real talk: this was one of our favorite episodes we recorded years ago! Hope you enjoy it, NEW EPISODE OUT SOON. <3 Russell + Stephanie
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We are back with another edition of our CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE where we discuss TWO different artworks by TWO different artists and compare what makes them so terrifying!
Usually, we are able to squeeze them into one episode but not this time!
And we kick off our 2025 CDF edition with illustrator, painter, and stained glasser Harry Clarke (1889-1931).
Harry hailed from Dublin, Ireland and grew up during the Celtic Revival.
Harry was just as popular for his book illustrations during the Golden Age of gift-books as well as his other-wordly religious stained glass in churches.
While his masterpiece is the Geneva Window, a breathtaking example of Harry’s skill and mastery of stained glass, we will be focusing on an illustration from the book of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe (1919, 1923).
Yes, horror-ific Edgar. Allan.Poe.
The work in question is that of “King Pest” from 1919, a story about two drunken sailors bumbling about a 19th century plague-stricken London.
Sounds chill but the combo of grim and gory Poe plus Harry’s scary talent of visualizing such tales will give you the heebie-jeebies (not all speaking from experience 👀).
Click PLAY if you dare and get ready to be HARRY-FIED!
Topics include E-Girl socks, El Chavo del Ocho, island getaways, pampooties, Derry Girls, Guinness, TB vaccines and much, much more!
Song: "Yesterday" by Holiznacc0 https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/track/yesterday
Listeners, we are excited to share a very special interview with Orna Tsultem, curator and art historian of Mongolian art, where we dive into the origins of Mongol Zurag, the art of resistance.
We cover A LOT of images in this one so we highly recommend watching when you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QchXwHybmfk&ab_channel=ArtSlicePod
You can also follow along here: https://www.artslicepod.com/episodes/mongol-zurag-art-of-resistance
In this episode, we discuss the origins of Mongol Zurag which began as benign secular painting, which was a significant change from the traditional Buddhist thangka paintings.
After Mongolia became a Soviet satellite state, Mongol Zurag, slowly but surely, became the voice of resistance from Mongolian artists looking to rediscover their cultural heritage.
The Mongol Zurag style continues today and the Mongolian artists’ message which most of us can relate to in the year 2025 living under neo-liberalism and capital greed.
You can learn more about Mongolian Art here:
MUSIC:
Yesterday Album - Lofi And Chill Artist - HoliznaCC0 https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/album...
01 Album - 2013
Toyota Corolla Artist - 2003 Toyota Corolla https://hanahata.bandcamp.com/album/2...
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We present a very special bonus interview with Emily A. Beeny, Chief Curator at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco about the Mary Cassatt At Work exhibition.
Since her day, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) has been known for her paintings of bébés and upper class women but there’s another layer - a radical one - that has been overlooked until now.
Join us as we discuss how this new exhibition explores the idea of labor surrounding Cassatt’s studio practice as well as her radical subject matter: the bébés being cared for by, more often than not, nannies, nurse-maids, governesses etc.
Our conversation with Emily revolves around Cassatt's “A Goodnight Hug” a pastel from 1880.
Topics include the artist as laborer, shedding light on domestic work, her and Cassatt’s involvement in women’s suffrage in the US.
The exhibition closes January 26th, 2025 - don’t miss it!!
You can learn more about the exhibition here:
https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/mary-cassatt
MUSIC: HoliznaCC0 - “First Snow”
https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/
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¡ ¡ W E ‘ R E B A C K, Y ’ A L L ! !
This time getting lost in the weird and wonderful world of painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s early works (Part 1) that feature wonky landscapes populated by dream logic, lumpy babies, curvaceous women, angular farm animals, and Japanese folk tales as well as American folk influences.
Yas’ early works became an amalgamation of his lifelong journey of self-identity, expertly blending sentimental past memories, like that of Japanese folktale Momotaro, with present feelings of fear and isolation due to the growing racism and tension he was experiencing on the daily.
As an Asian American immigrant, and like many other Nikkei, Yas found himself trapped somewhere in the middle - considered neither Japanese nor American enough - as relations between the US and Japan escalated.
We discuss “Little Joe with Cow” 1923, “Bad Dream” 1924, and “Self-Portrait as Golf Player” 1927.
Topics include shedding your husk, Weezer dance-a-thons, dual cup-holder LaZ boys, censoring comics and mermaids . . . and so much more!!
Music:
"A flower blooms in complete darkness"
From the album: "Visions, Prophecies, and Night Terrors" by The Hathaway Family Plot
Check out the album on Spotify or Bandcamp
https://thehathawayfamilyplot.bandcamp.com/album/visions-prophecies-and-night-terrors
Watch the video version here (if you do - please like, subscribe, and comment as we are trying to get our videos more recognition): https://youtu.be/YN-jTDR2spY
¡ ¡ W E ‘ R E B A C K, Y ’ A L L ! !
and diving into the origins of La Catrina, the quintessential skelicon of Day of the Dead. Over the past 100ish years, her image has transcended borders, becoming synonymous with sugar skulls, Frida Kahlo, the Virgin of Guadalupe and even Santa Muerte.
From her first incarnation by Mexican printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1910 as “Calavera Garbancera” (Chick-Pea Calavera) print, all the way back to early depictions of (and actual) skulls found in Aztec and Mayan tzompantli; Her rediscovery and re-imagining by the Mexican Muralists in the early 20th century, even making a cameo in the larger than life mural by Diego Rivera in 1947 “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central” or “A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” and finally, the continuing rise of La Catrina’s visage in the present day.
We also discuss Europe’s Memento Mori moment in Hans Holbein the Younger’s “The Ambassadors” from 1533 as well as Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos influence on Posada’s “Calavera de los Patinadores” or “Street-cleaning Calavera” from c.1900 and “Calavera Oaxaqueña” or “The Oaxacan Calavera” c.1910.
Topics include renegade saints, is Tim McCraw dead?, hybrid deities, Franceyness, psychedelic skulls, really just lots and lots and lots of skulls . . .
Jack Shoulder and Mark Small of Museum Bums fame take us on a curvy tour of Art Historical Gluteal Clefts!
If you’d rather watch - you can do so here: https://youtu.be/1mCpKG4nuoU
Topics include counting museum rumps, apotropaic blessings from Goddesses heinies, Kappa Yokai looking for soul spheres in your rear…
We’re all still stumped about what was up with Hieronymus Bosch’s… erhm… interest in butts.
And of course, the coded queerness hiding just between the cheeks of artists like Michelangelo and Henry Scott Tuke.
For your daily dose of bum - follow @museumbums on social, and while you’re at it pick up Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art from (preferably) your local bookstore.
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In this Purple Bonus episode, we break down some weird decorative object history with Ben Miller from Curious Object podcast. We get into a Japanese inspired Tiffany and Co. Chocolate Pot from 1876 made of mixed materials including ivory and silver featuring cabbage leaf and lobster motifs.
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Join us as we discuss maces? molinets? antique forgeries, nebulous grape-colored copper patina and so much more!
You can find Curious Objects podcast where ever podcasts are found - or here: https://www.themagazineantiques.com/podcast/
The featured music is "Lagenta" by ALIMINALFACE
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For its SEVENTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you the extra-spectral, enigmatic (and sometimes controversial) PURPLE - and we have artist, illustrator, animator and (duncle) Caldwell Tanner of Not Another DnD Podcast (NaddPod), Drawfee, Big City Greens - on deck to help sort it out.
Is it actually violet? Or have color manufacturers fudged the visuals? Or is purple hidden in plain sight, filling in the voids of our imaginations and our physical world?
We get into all of this - discussing purple’s history - its ancient lineage beginning often laborious flora origins, its unwavering sense of mystery and wonder yet it’s reincarnation into pop cultural characters - as well as it's characteristics, and your color associations!
Key moments include: Grimace (original), Qin Shi Huang, world wide mollusk milking, purple kimonos, Klasky Csupo, Cleopatra, Grimace (current day), colorful Giallo horror flicks, Harry Clarke, Lois Dodd, and what kind of pants robots could wear...
Check out Caldwell's work here: https://twitter.com/caldy?lang=en
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Music: Soft and Furious - Diving in the Self https://chezmonplaisir.bandcamp.com/album/diving-in-the-self
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We are so excited to share a new series from our Canadian podcast friends Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North
A series about a group of artists known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation (PNIAI) or as they were dubbed by the press: the Indigenous Group of Seven.
This was significant because the most famous Euro-Canadian painters then were known as the Group of Seven which put respect on their name - especially for Indigenous artists who were still thought of as less than their white counterparts as well as their work being seen more as anthropology than art…
The PNIAI artists include:
Daphne Odjig
Alex Janvier
Jackson Beardy
Eddy Cobiness
Norval Morrisseau
Carl Ray
Joseph Sanchez
Listen to the first episode here, then go and subscribe to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood North to finish the series over the coming weeks.
https://knockaboutmedia.com/podcasts/among-equals/
Once the series has wrapped up we will have a bonus episode covering some of our favorite works from the series.
Intro song: "Lagenta" by aliminalface
https://soundcloud.com/aliminalface?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=D601CB27C12E45FCBD082CEEC0ECE65D&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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For its SIXTH installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies brings you our most controversial color so far. . . PINK (!!!)
Is this color just a light red? Or is the extra-spectral tone of our… life… energy…?
We dig through the history, characteristics, and your color associations with, artist, curator, activist - and creator of the Pinkest Pink - Stuart Semple @stuartsemple
And try - TRY - to make some sense of the sorted history of Pink, from its humble algae origins to its 20th century capitalist feminine turn.
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Key moments include Barbie’s girlhood domination, Pinko Pigment, the Pink Tide, Giovanni Barrista Moroni, Pontormo, Simpsons Pink, Portia Munson, Ketchup and Mayo mixed, and so much more.
Today we have a lil spooky BONE-US - chat with Rumwolf - a multi-disciplinary installation artist, - his work often includes combinations of animation, film, painting, printmaking, and sculpture whose works are inspired by horror and general spookiness ~
BUT also he’s a musician and visual production specialist…as well as a Hallo-Event-Creator.
We get into his non-traditional path to art making, horror as a genuine influence to art making, as well as his specially curated Halloween picks.
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Listeners, we present to you… the FULLY UNLOCKED… Great Surrealist Paint Off! Formerly a Patreon bonus episode from last December (since we are running a bit behind on our next release)
We cover the 1947 International Bel Ami Surrealist Art Competition featuring famous and lesser known artists to have their work featured in a Hollywood picture.
We HIGHLY recommend following along on YouTube because we cover A LOT of images in this one - it’s a wild ride:
We are back (!) picking up where we left off with Francisco de Goya in PART ONE as we finally discuss Los Caprichos, but not before diving into the revelatory hidden imagery in La familia de Carlos IV, and Goya's infamous witch series: Witches' Flight, The Spell, Witches' Sabbath, The Witches' Kitchen, and The Bewitched Man / Devil's Lamp.
We also address the myth that Goya went ‘crazy’ after a certain point in his life. Turns out, the answer was ‘no’ but also not that simple.
Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRxVZRzDicI
We will be following up our Goya episodes with a wrap up ‘sode on our Patreon very soon where we will talk about all the things, thoughts, feelings that went behind making this trio of Goya/Spanish culture related episodes: http://www.patreon.com/artslicepod
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The Art Pantry this week is AQUATINT brought to you by our first Pantry guests Mirand & Reinaldo from Hello, Print Friend - a podcast about all things printmaking.
Follow them on IG @helloprintfriend for amazing print content and tutorials!
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The featured music today was “That feeling when you are stuck in a libertarian world and don’t like it” by Soft and Furious Go pick up the album!
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We got to sit down with artist, writer & choreographer Matty Davis for our first ever in-studio interview to get all the details of Die No Die (Arkansas) including how much Arkansas history and landscape, particularly around The Momentary, inspired the work.
We also discuss how he went from building treehouses and skate rails in the suburbs, to creating performance art and experimental publications.
If you’re in or near-ish to NWA ~ Matty Davis’ will perform Die No Die (Arkansas) at The Momentary in Bentonville, AR for 3 nights only August 4, 5, & 6
You can pick up the Die No Die publication and tickets here: https://themomentary.org/calendar/die-no-die-arkansas-matty-davis/
Matty Davis' work www.mattydavis.net
Chloe Cooper Jones’ memoir Easy Beauty can be found anywhere books are sold
Tony Orrico - tonyorrico.com
Dario Robleto - http://www.dariorobleto.com/
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While we wrap up our series on Goya's Los Capricho's enjoy this dive into the tumultuous history of the Majos / Majas - which is filled with secretive Duchess, working class riots, street style, lacy mantillas, and goo... yes goo...
Including Goya's infamous Maja Desnuda & Maja Vestida portraits.
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We are officially back for Season Dos of Art Slice with Francisco Goya’s epic series of 80 prints - Los Caprichos.
Watch the full video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9US22i0iE&t=2717s&ab_channel=ArtSlicePod
But before diving in, we look at Goya’s early career which coincided with the rise of French imported Enlightenment ideals and the rejection of said ideals in the Majo/a street style of the lower classes.
Topics include trolling gods, straw mannequins, art worms, French simps, and the uncanny parallels between the lil homies / lil palermos and Goya’s Majomies.
What do you call it when a second serving of Art History is larger than your first serving???
We dig into the 1940’s - where Surrealism is having its day in Hollywood… ultimately leading to a painting competition between Ivan Albright, Eugene Berman, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini (sort of), Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi, Horace Pippin, Abraham Rattner, Stanley Spencer, and Dorothea Tanning…to be featured in full on technicolor in the film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami.
And there are rules… they must create THEIR version of The Temptation of Saint Anthony…who had already been depicted in various states of getting his ass kicked by monster demons by non other than Stefano di Giovanni, Master of the Osservanza, Martin Schongauer, Michelangelo, and Hieronymus Bosch… no big deal.
It’s a big ol’ episode to send 2022 packing…not to mention our first fully video episode… only available on our patreon: www.patreon.com/artslicepod
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MUSIC: Rrrrrose Wieck - Le Bleu de la Nuit
For its fifth installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies (finally) presents a true primary color. . . COBALT BLUE with guest Isabella Segalovich @interstellar_isabellar on TikTok and Instagram - Professor of Interior Design at Kean University and member of the New York Crit Club faculty. She is also a writer, teacher, and content creator who educates on the intersections of art, design, and politics and regular contributor to Hyperallergic.
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Join us as we discuss an abbreviated history of blue - from its fleeting and rare presence in nature, to humanity’s attempts to harness and assign meaning to it. Key moments include Egyptian blue, Ultramarine and YINmn blue.
Through a scientific breakthrough in the early 19th century, cobalt blue would become the steadfast true blue pigment missing on the painter’s palette, leading artists like Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh and Richard Diebenkorn to use cobalt in their varied and expressive visions.
And lastly, we also dig into our associations with COBALT BLUE - which ranged from ocean hues, expansive skies, otherworldliness, happiness or even fresh crispness - all through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants.
The song featured in this episode was “I need to do it to be alive” by Soft and Furious from the album Diving in the Self which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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In this week’s episode,
Stephanie and Russell discover the many versions of second generation, multidisciplinary Surrealist Dorothea Tanning and dive into a few works from her nearly century long, prolific career:
Birthday, oil on canvas from 1942; soft sculpture installation, Hotel du Pavot, Chambre 202 from 1970-73; and in a Patreon exclusive Midi et demi (Half Past Noon, oil on canvas, 1956-57.
From small town Midwest roots to New York City hustling waiting for her big break, Dorothea’s early life and artistic journey are ones that many can relate to. Despite living in the shadow of her husband, OG Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst, she very much had her own painting techniques.
Be sure to listen to the Dorothea Tanning BONUS episode on our - Patreon.
Topics include Hitler’s banana broccoli breath, burning davenports, lil girl rage, sooty lungs, twee / tweed, fast talking, stolen dogs...and other things....
The Art Pantry this week is Soft Sculpture.
The featured music in this episode was “Lister” by A Liminal Face from the album “Friend or Foe?”. This album had us thumpin’ and boppin’ - check the album out on spotify, or check them out on youtube.
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Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples.
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For its fourth installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color (not a color) Theory and Color Studies presents . . . BLACK.
Join us as we discuss a brief history of the color BLACK beginning with how scientifically, it’s ‘a color not a color’ then onto the pigments and its utilization by artists since prehistoric times, through the Renaissance, Post-Impressionism until today which includes some artist feuds involving the blackest man-made pigment ever*. And lastly, we also dig into our associations with BLACK - which ranged from infiniteness, dominatrixes, faded black clothing, and monsters - through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants.
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W1D1 is a tool to relax, snap out of the routine and sharpen your creative skills with daily creative challenges.
We walk in the footsteps of famous artists and photographers.
Use century-old techniques to learn to work with colours, shapes, and feelings. We dive into the historical roots of our visual cultures and get to enjoy modern art.
W1D1 is for everyone – not only for designers or photographers. Instead of lectures, we give you quick exercises to help you to be brave and deliver your creative ideas no matter what.
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Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples.
Check out the latest ART HISTORY TRUE CRIME, Death of an Artist - from Pushkin. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/death-of-an-artist
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Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples.
Check out the latest ART HISTORY TRUE CRIME, Death of an Artist - from Pushkin. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/death-of-an-artist
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Why is there something rather than nothing? Something Rather Than Nothing is a philosophical and psychological exploration into the act of creation.
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The song featured in this episode was “I need to do it to be alive” by Soft and Furious from the album Diving in the Self which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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In this Second Slice of Art History, we dig into the lesser known Dorothea Tanning work - her prismatic or insomnia works from the 1950s. To get access to this episode and support Art Slice, head on over to:
MUSIC: Scanglobe - Undulation (Remix)
We are just gonna say it: August...absolutely... kicked our butts.
It’s like when you're creating something, it doesn't quite turn out how you want it to - like that painting in the studio that you just can't look at anymore because you've struggled so much with it - you just have to put it away for a while and come back to it.
. . . So we did. It was especially disappointing because we had such high hopes for August.
However, things are in the upswing - we will have a full serving and a Color Theory episode in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, here is a Patreon exclusive we managed to put together from a segment we just couldn't fit into a full episode...on Dorothea Tanning's time in Sedona Arizona, and the prismatic-abstract-but-not-that-abstract work she made as a result of her time there (which we LOVE).
Anyway, we're going to try and enjoy what’s left of August...which is…*checks calendar* … OH GOD.
...we'd love to know what you thought about Dorothea's prismatic works as well... let us know!
In this Second Slice of Art History, we dig into a very early work of Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Comet (aka Night Rider)’ from 1910, and discuss how it bookends (burger buns) his late period work perfectly. We also, share some of OUR earliest work… you can support this show, get access to this episode and other bonus material all at:
Buon Appetito!
For its third installment, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies presents . . . FLUORESCENT YELLOW.
Join us as we discuss FLUORESCENT YELLOW’s history that all started in a DayGlo lab and its far reaching effect on everything from military warfare, fashion, subversive pop culture, music and art history.
We also dig into our associations - which ranged from danger/caution, eeriness, youth, and nightlife - with FLUORESCENT YELLOW through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants.
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The song featured in this episode was “I need to do it to be alive” by Soft and Furious from the album Diving in the Self which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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We are back (!) and in this episode, we pick up where we left off in Episode 14 to discuss Hilma's life between 1908-1915.
We dismantle the misconstrued studio visit with Rudolf Steiner that paints him as a ruthless, dream-crushing villain.
We unpack what abstraction is and what it's used for: what might have she thought of Wassily Kandinsky's work at the Baltic Exhibition?
...and of course - The Swan - an allegorical diagrammatic, symbol loaded, interplainensional matryoshka doll, gender bending epic - told through 24 SEQUENTIAL paintings...
The awesome, mind-bending complexities of the series further proves her badass skills and versatility as a modern painter expressing her Theosophical spirituality. In the end, we discovered this group of works reveals a surprising and empowering message for herself and for all of us.
Topics include country singer Faith Hill’s kiss, Hans & Jens, Occult Chemistry, the Qabalah / Kabbalah tree of life, tender hearts in blenders, star-shaped gasses, psychedelic jawbreakers, and so much more.
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In its second episode, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies presents . . . MAGENTA.
Join us as we discuss MAGENTA’S history involving flowery military uniforms, CMKY, cease and desist letters, and Charles Burchfield. We also get into the weeds regarding our associations with MAGENTA through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants.
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The song featured in this episode was “I need to do it to be alive” by Soft and Furious from the album Diving in the Self which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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In this Second Slice of Art History, things get kind of wild as we try new mics and new drinks as well as discuss Bernini’s trippy work that is Memorial of Maria Raggi from 1647-1653 made of marble and bronze!
Buon Appetito!
Stephanie and Russell are back to discuss the wild intersection of two unlikely figures - Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Spanish nun Saint Teresa of Avila - that results in the controversial, monumental masterpiece that is The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-52).
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a pure talent with resources to nurture it, thrived without consequence under the protection of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. His talent, freedom and privilege led him to produce some of the best examples - or THE BEST (depending who you ask) - of Baroque sculpture and architecture. His name is synonymous with Baroque as his work always contained a combination of theatricality, dynamic compositions, opulent materials but most of all craft.
On the other hand, Saint Teresa of Avila who, born into privilege, still faced a restrictive existence as a queer woman in 16th century Spain, yet continued testing the boundaries of her autonomy even under the terrifying Spanish Inquisition. Her courage, faith, her reforming and her legendary mystical visions have come to inspire countless figures over the centuries, Bernini included.
Despite their differences, Bernini and St. Teresa shared discipline and a curiosity that pushed them to the limits of art and/or spirituality - no matter the cost. To this day, both of their shadows loom large in their respective fields and it’s hard to imagine how differently the world would look without them.
And it’s through The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-52) that their stories are forever cemented in history.
Other works discussed are The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-22. Marble.
Topics include frosting on frosting, architect drama, donkey ears, visions of Jesus in your mirror/soul and . . the return of the God Bod - kind of.
The Art Pantry this week is Marble.
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The featured music in this episode was “Net content electric ingredients” by Patrick Kilpatrick from the album “Introducing Patrick Kilpatrick”. This album is perfect for Spring - consider supporting his work here!
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This week, Stephanie and Russell present a BONUS serving of Art History in honor of their beloved cat who passed away suddenly this past week, Frankie.
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Full episode out next week!
This BONUS serving is of Agnes Pelton’s Future painting from 1943 from episode 20 and a set of bloopers and cutscenes from Hilma af Klint episode 14.
Hug your animal friends and human friends extra tight tonight and enjoy this Patreon content courtesy of Frankie.
In its’ inaugural episode, the Art Slice Museum Laboratories Division of Color Theory and Color Studies presents . . . VIRIDIAN.
Join us as we discuss VIRIDIAN’s varied and noxious history involving the Ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Paolo Veronese. We also get into the weeds regarding our associations surrounding VIRIDIAN through data compiled by the Art Slice Pantrémon from clinical participants (listeners).
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There is also a heated debate regarding a undecidedly viridian colored couch - be sure to cast your vote:
The song featured in this episode was “I need to do it to be alive” by Soft and Furious from the album Diving in the Self which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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Stephanie and Russell are back to take you to the California desert, where they discuss the life and work of Agnes Pelton, a theosophical and occult painter of the 20th century who was relatively unknown in the Art World Mainstream until recently.
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Despite similarities to Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky (both inspired by Theosophy) in terms of abstraction and often compared to painter Georgia O’ Keefe with her desert landscapes – Agnes’ work is truly unique, combining theosophical symbology with a keen eye to light filled observations resulting in otherworldly and incandescent compositions. Using oil paint and numerous layers of glazes, she achieves that mesmerizing glowing light effect present in paintings of Italian Baroque masters like Artemisia Gentileschi and (Michelangelo Merisi da) Caravaggio.
After leaving behind the bustling East Coast, Agnes sought a life in Cathedral City, located in the California desert, where she could channel her energy and focus on harnessing the incandescent visions that came to her through her meditations while also exploring her spirituality.
There, she found a community of like-minded outsiders and artists who thrived in the oasis that was Cathedral City for them too. Despite her lack of mainstream success for the most part during her life, she made a lasting impression on those who knew her – whether it was through her presence or through her stunning paintings.
Topics include sugar addiction problems, dirty windshields, studious rattlesnakes, silver tea sets, and cliffside thrift stores.
The works discussed today are Sandstorm, 1932; Orbits. 1934; and The Blest. 1941.
The featured music today is "Doug and Mike Starn" by Rob Lynch & Jonathan Hughes from the album Public / Private
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker are back to take you way, WAY further back than ever - to the Giottosphere where they explore the frescoes of Italian artist and architect Giotto in the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel - an Early Renaissance masterpiece.
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Join them as they discuss Giotto’s early life from his humble shepherd boy beginnings to his coming of age as a prodigy under the (former) GOAT painter Cimabue.
Giotto’s talent, personality, and fame landed him his most famous commission: the Scrovegni Chapel - commissioned by LendNation Loan Shark CEO Enrico Scrovegni - where he depicts the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus (oh, the irony).
At the end of Medieval times and on the cusp of the Renaissance, Giotto’s work reminds his audience that art can, in fact, depict actual humans through the use of attention to details like a figure’s emotional expression, babies (no, not shrunken men), the curl of a sheep’s wool or the drapery of a figure’s clothing. Giotto’s realistic and natural style would go on to inspire Renaissance masters like Michelangelo as well as stir emotions within those who experience the chapel
Topics include: medieval flyswatters, T-clinic lawn signs, Lord Farquaad haircuts, and ancient comets.
You can experience 360 VR of the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel here.
The Art Pantry this week is Trompe L’oeil.
The song featured in this episode was “En attendant domain (Waiting for Tomorrow)” which is one of a hundred incredible songs by Rrrrrose of Loyalty Freak Music. Support Rrrrrose’s mission to create queer, free music against Capitalism and Fascism on Patreon. Consider supporting their work!
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Spookephanie Dueñas and Russell Cryptmaker are back for this special Creature Double Feature episode:
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Here to lift the spooky spirits, Spookephanie and Russell discuss - not one but two - ghoulish works, from two different continents, separated by a century, but sharing eerie similarities like gruesome stories of doomed protagonists:
A woodblock print, House of Plates, 1831-32 by Japanese Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai and the overlooked Scottish mixed media artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s painting, La Mort Parfumée (Perfumed Death) from 1921.
In Part One, they briefly discuss the environment in which Ukiyo-e blossomed in 17th - 19th century Japan, 3 ghostly prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s series One Hundred Ghost Stories and the Featured: House of Plates print while discovering that Okiku’s story ends . . . well (no bueno).
In Part Two, they introduce the 1913 play, La Pisanelle written by Gabriele D’ Annunzio* which inspired Margaret’s Featured work: La Mort Parfumée (perfumed Death). They also dive into Margaret’s life as she rejected Victorian gender roles and ideologies; her mesmerizing work, which embodied the Glasgow Style, as well as her overlooked contributions to art history, especially the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements that would inspire artists like Gustav Klimt from Vienna.
Topics include: Weird Al & Hawaiian shirts, triggering Glassdoor HR responses, playing pinball with plate-bodied ghosts and big, floppy bow ties.
The ArtPantry this week is Rhythm.
Special thanks to Bryan Knotts, https://bryanknotts.com/ designer of our Art Slice pizza box logo, for lending us his voice for the Creature Double Feature intro.
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Stephanie and Russell are back with a full serving and boy, it is piping hot.
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Stephanie and Russell are back (!) to discuss two prolific artists who were opposites in many ways: one was wealthy, one was not; one was cold, one was hot; one is well-known in Art History, one is not.
Marcel Duchamp is considered hugely influential to changing modern painting and sculpture through his contributions to Dada, Surrealism, eventually inspiring Pop Art.
Maria Martins, a pioneering Brazilian sculptor making bold, sexy, and surreal works the art world had yet to see in the 1940s, is rarely ever mentioned in Modern Art History despite exhibiting with the Surrealists or she is merely mentioned as “Marcel Duchamp’s mistress” (which is incorrect).
Their paths crossed in the 1940s New York City art scene, where they mingled and fell in love, leading them to pursue an unexpected fiery romance that had a lasting and fascinating impact on their lives, their artwork, and ultimately, Art History.
Stephanie and Russell discuss elements of their relationship through Maria Martin’s The Impossible III (1946) and Marcel Duchamps’ “Etants Donnes” (1946 -1966).
Topics include: Rectangular Boys of Parlor, the Fourth Dimension, urinals, Mar-kel Du-chump, sensual samba dancers, face cleavage, runaway vaginas, Thomas Kinkade, and teeny hacksaws.
The Art Pantry this week is Bronze Casting.
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Oh jeez - this is a wild one...... Stephanie and Russell are back with another serving and boy, is it a _ROMP_.
This week, join them as they head further back into Art History than ever before – to the 16th century to introduce El Greco, a catalyst of Modern Art.
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Looking to make it big, El Greco left the island life of Crete for the bustling Italian cities of Venice and Rome. There, he picked up traits from Renaissance and Mannerism styles and added some hometown Post-Byzantine spice – resulting in a bizarre yet stunning combination of colors and dynamic compositions never before seen in art history. He also made some friends - and enemies - along the way.
Despite the Counter Reformation’s harsh grip on Europe, EG was still able to thrive utilizing his strange style (that echoed his eccentric personality) to continually score commissions while managing to stand out amongst his contemporaries.
After his death, he was mostly forgotten about until his rediscovery in the 19th century. Modern artists of the 20th century claimed him since he laid the groundwork for breaking visual tradition. And it was famous works like The Annunciation (1597) that caught the eye of Remedios Varo and Pablo Picasso among other art giants like Paul Cezanne.
Stephanie and Russell discuss the first iterations of abstraction present in The Annunciation (1597) in which a teenage Mary is receiving heavenly news from towering angels and a turbulent celestial cloud column with floating cherub heads.
Topics include: the rebranding of the Catholic Church (RC²), a lotta olives, trash talking Michelangelo (not us), long babies, miniature galleries for rats, time travel, and a plushie Remedios Varo mascot. There is no Art Pantry this week because Bean is missing.
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Welcome to Art Slice: an irreverent, inclusive, and Palatable Serving of Art History, brought to you by visual artists and Art Historian Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker.
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker are back with another slice of Art History: they discuss Rene Magritte and his painting "The Unexpected Answer" from 1933, Giorgio “Daddy” De Chirico’s influence on Rene and the Surrealists, and De Chirico's "The Song of Love" from 1914.
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De Chirico’s metaphysical works were a first in art history and has since influenced generations of artists, especially the Surrealists. Both he and De Chirico evoke a sense of stimmung, or mood, that is especially unnerving when their paintings are realistically painted but Rene takes it a step further.
While Rene is considered a Surrealist, he was not quite like the others. His compositions raise more questions than answers and were likely inspired by the tragedy and war he experienced early in life. His interest in the macabre and uncanny, taken from Edgar Allen Poe and Lewis Carroll really took off once he left Brussels and headed to Paris, to the heart of Surrealism.
Somewhere between all of the melancholic marble statues, architectural arcades, giant chess pieces and bowler hats, Stephanie and Russell finally discuss the beginnings of Surrealism which include Andre Breton’s military career, Sigmund Freud’s ideas, and Max Ernst’s French translation skills. Lastly, they confront the Daddy in the room and discuss that disturbing, lingering sense of uneasiness Rene’s works leaves us in. And if Rene, at the end of the day, is truly a Surrealist.
Our Art Pantry of the week are Automatic, Surrealist Techniques: Frottage, grattage, eclaboussure, fumage, and decalcomania. Topics include Belgian waffles, Surrealist bedtime stories, a forgotten Krautrock band, why your daddy doesn't listen to David Bowie, theatre, The Treachery of Images, and Daddies - lots and lots of Daddies.
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After a summer Art History hiatus, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker (finally) discuss Swedish painter Hilma af Klint’s journey to abstraction, from a young girl in Navy Cadet school to an accomplished, individual, and independent female artist - a rare combination in the 19th century.
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Hilma is often sensationalized as a mystical hermit artist who spoke to ghosts, or as the inventor of abstract art - both of which sound sexy for an exhibition - but do a disservice to an artist who worked with such intentionality and purpose throughout her life. Hilma's interest in the unseen, science, religion, clairvoyance, and meditation would lead her to find the connective threads between representation and abstraction. For example, like in The Ten Largest ; Ten giant, powerful, and vibrant paintings, while deeply personal to her, have a universal message everyone can connect to.
Topics include Madame Helena Blavatsky, Theosophy, gweenies, God Bod, astral chore coats, ice-cream sampling, Swedish Melodic Death Metal Band De Fem, and pony parties. Our Art Pantry of the week is Automatic Drawing.
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WE ARE BACK with another Art Slice Short: Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker cover one of their favorite contemporary painters, Black artist Kerry James Marshall and his painting, “Memento #5” of his Souvenir Series.
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They also discuss the Black Liberation Movement, the Civil Rights movement of the1960s that visually inspired the Souvenir Series: from Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, to the nationwide Civil Rights protests and how these events continue to impact and inspire social reform and change today.
Topics include Mambo #5, Dodge hemis, Watts Riots, political lawn signs, punky emo belts, and a tailgate party featuring blue weenies. Reviewing, subscribing, liking, and sharing really helps support the show:
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This week, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker tread through the fascinating history behind the sculpture work “Silver Bedhead” from 1946 by Alexander “Sandy'“ Calder, mobile master, commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim, a woman whose art addiction influenced Modern Art History of the last century.
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They go back to the beginning of Peggy and Sandy’s lives when each experienced serendipitous moments that changed the trajectory of their lives, their paths running parallel to one another until art brought them together resulting in the one-of-a-kind work discussed in today’s episode.
Topics include secret bookstores, a hefty inheritance, a miniature circus, baguette bopping, and Stephanie’s encounter with a too mobile mobile.
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Our Art Pantry of the week is Craft.
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In your snack-size serving of Art History this week, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker are on vacation - BUT they’ve compiled a sampler of previous episodes for easy sharing with friends who might enjoy the show.
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Episode Clips Featured:
1. Ep 08: Vincent Van Gogh X Utagawa Hiroshige - 1887 / 1857
2. Ep 05 & 07: The Three Witches (Part 1 & 2) Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna and Remedios Varo
3. Ep 04: WTFlag - Jasper Johns “Three Flags” - 1960
4. Ep 03: Three Disturbing Presents - Edvard Munch, “The Scream”, 1893 / Remedios Varo, “A Disturbing Presence” 1959
5. Ep 09: Sculpt to the Future - Augusta Savage - “Lift Every Voice and Sing” 1939 - Music by Kris Keough
6. Ep 10: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit: Part 1 - “Detroit Industry Murals” 1932
7. Ep 05 & 07: The Three Witches (Part 1 & 2) Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna and Remedios Varo
8. Ep 12: Suddenly Subtly Psychedelic - Charles Burchfield - “Childhood’s Garden” 1917 / “The Coming of Spring”1917 - 1943
9. Ep 11: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit: Part 2 - “On the Border...”1932
10. Ep 08: Vincent Van Gogh X Utagawa Hiroshige - 1887 / 1857
11. Ep 05 & 07: The Three Witches (Part 1 & 2) Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna and Remedios Varo
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In this week’s episode, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker immerse themselves in the sensory watercolor world of the prolific artist and writer Charles Burchfield: from his early psychedelic Golden phase, through his Regionalist period, and finally, the works he made toward the end of his life after revisiting those Golden Phase paintings. They explore what exactly drove the vibrant works that bookended his career spanning several decades.
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Charles was just a small town boy, born and raised in Ohio. He was known as a lunch pale artist, clocking in Monday through Friday and spending time with his family and dogs on nights and weekends. While his paintings sold enough to support his family, even during the Great Depression, something was unresolved in his artistic career . . . something that had been unresolved before he became the beloved Regionalist.
Toward the end of his career, his splice-of-life watercolors transcended into multi-sensory and psychedelic landscapes vibrating with the songs of crickets and the buzzing of telephone wires. Stephanie and Russell find out that the answer to "Was this Mr. Rodger’s - type figure popping LSD in the woods? Or was he so deeply connected to the nature all around him?"
Our Art Pantry of the week is Watercolor.
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In this 2 part series, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker discuss Frida Kahlo’s and Diego Rivera’s time in Detroit, Michigan - a moment in time that proved to be a turning point in both of their artistic careers as well as their personal lives.
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Frida’s chronic pain, sudden loss and heartbreak, combined with the disillusionment of the USA during her time in Detroit. All the while, she’s soaking in everything and discovering she is a woman of complex identities, leading us to “Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States”. Our Art Pantry of the week is Metal (Painting).
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker discuss Frida Kahlo’s and Diego Rivera’s time in Detroit, Michigan - a moment in time that proved to be a turning point in both of their artistic careers as well as their personal lives.
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“Detroit Industry Murals Manifesto”, starts with Diego Rivera’s epic Detroit Industry Murals where a universal vision of equality was taken to new heights (literally).
Even though Rivera’s commission came with controversy and criticism from the start due to his Communist beliefs, nevertheless Detroit Industry brilliantly combined Renaissance fresco with a modern and inspiring narrative of the working class. And even after 88 years, they still stand at the Detroit Institute of Arts as a reminder of a desperate and hopeless time when such a bold statement of unity brought inspiration to the workers of the Ford Motor Company yet it still resonates to this day.
Frida Kahlo is also introduced as she leaves Mexico for the first time, along Diego’s side, and gets to experience how the ‘American Dream’ involves individualism and Capitalism, among the modern and industrializing city of Detroit.
Our Art Pantry of the week is Fresco.
This week’s Art Assignment is: share your favorite mural! Be safe if you can physically travel to it or use Google maps - and share a pic or screenshot and tell us why you like it!
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker discuss Augusta Savage’s unstoppable ambition that knew no bounds.
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Her talent and courage culminated in her World’s Fair masterpiece, “The Harp”. Featuring her classic academic precision along with a refreshing quasi abstracting element - “The Harp” was and remains a piece like non other. Her monument extended to teaching the future African American Artists like Jacob Lawrence.
Our Art Pantry of the week is Plaster. Topics Include: The 1939 World’s Fair, Rose Gold Mussolini “robot,” The Great Migration, Jim Crow Laws, The Harlem Renaissance, phallic monuments, carrot and potato hats, a brief cameo by Basel Ricketbottom III; mudpies, the racist vapors, and the introduction of the Art Slice Museum’s new sculpture wing.
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker discuss the Collab of the 80s - the 1880s that is, Van Gogh’s master studies of Japanese printmaker master Utagawa Hiroshige.
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We try to unpack the difference between influence, appropriation, and just good ol’ fashion theft. We discuss the subtle ways Van Gogh was forever changed into the artist he is known for by the wholly new-to-the-west Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. But do VG’s studies belong in the Art Slice Museum???
Hopefully by the end you’ll agree that Pablo Picasso was a dipshit, and great artists do not, in fact, steal. They instead give credit where credit is due, stay open to the world around them, and process their influences into something unique to them.
Our Art Pantry of the week is Negative Space. In this episode, we discuss Hiroshige’s lasting influence on Van Gogh.
Topics include: Japonisme, World’s Fairs, Ukiyo-e prints, Kano School of Painting, Japanese Woodblocks, and English Basel’s polymer clay Sailor Moon figurines.
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We dive into Part 2 of Las Tres Witches and discuss three works including the ethereal "The House Opposite" painting by Leonora Carrington, an image from Kati Horna’s supernatural "Ode to Necrophilia Series," and lastly, another fantastic work by Remedios Varo, "Centaur Tower Landscape."
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The Art Assignment this week is to write and illustrate your own spell!
In this episode, we discuss how Mexico’s magical side inspired the witches’ imagination and how it manifested not only in their works but also in their equally captivating lives.
Topics include witch hat hair, hyena housemate drama, Italian predellas, unwanted gifts, dancing centaurs, Sur La Table’s future artisanal line of witch kitchenware and Frida Kahlo’s true feelings towards Las Tres Witches.
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We discuss Red Colored Elegy; a ground-breaking graphic novel that shook the manga world with its unusual illustrations and depictions of the everyday mundane and raw human emotion in 1960s-70s Japan.
Probably inspired by his own life experience, Hayashi gives us a glimpse into the manga machine churning out content for the hungry masses.
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Our Art Assignment is to make your own sequential narrative in 2-4 panels on a single page. In this episode, we discuss Hayashi’s lasting influence on 20th century manga.
Topics include: faceless rejection, Hayao Miyazaki, the birth of Astro boy, manga, and anime. The summer wind, lamentations of aging hands, and of course Pantrémons - fun stuff!
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In your snack-size serving of Art History this week, Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker briefly discuss the influence of Tarot Cards on artists from the 20th century with a couple contemporary examples sprinkled in including Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Andre Breton and (some of) the Surrealists, Remedios Varo, Yoshitaka Amano and Suzanne Treister.
Topics include: the history of Tarot, taro (root), card spread on baguettes, Speed Racer, and Madonna’s image thievery. The Art
Assignment this week is: Design or create your own tarot card! Redesign an existing tarot card OR if one doesn’t speak to you, create your own a la Breton.
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We introduce the fascinating lives of The Three Witches aka Remedios Varo, Kati Horna and Leonora Carrington.
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We discuss the war, heartbreak and trauma that brought these powerful female artists together in Mexico City, world’s away from their native Europe. Topics include: cassette covers, Bayer aspirin, 1940s Mexico City, running from Nazis (again), debutante balls, lots of hyenas, a J. Crew sock and tequila.
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We discuss Three Flags; a drawing from 1960 based on a sculptural painting by the same name from 1958.
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Topics include: Prodigal Stephanie’s return to grey, Peach Cobbler seduction, Abstract Expressionism’s appeal to a changing America, Robert Rauschenberg’s bird like wing, day dreaming about going on amazing journeys while looking at boring art, ‘scribbins,' and WTF flags mean to us.
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker save a Demon Reindeer from Christmas cheer. To do so they cover not one but two spooky artworks: The Scream, a 1893 painting by Edvard Munch and A Disturbing Presence, a painting by a lesser known artist, Remedios Varo from 1959.
Our Art Pantry quickie of the week is Tempera.
In Part One, we discuss Edvard Munch’s troubled upbringing, the start of expressionism, the Bad Boys of Post-Impressionism Painting, Steve Painttube, and we try not to throw our pitchforks at The Scream.
In Part Two, Stephanie is interrupted by A Disturbing Presence 1959, we discuss toxic chair relationships, witchy science, and the bad girl behavior that made her too hot for Art History to handle.
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We discuss Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero); a language packed and illustrative painting of 80’s era Lower East Side by a lesser known artist, Martin Wong, from 1984.
In this episode, we discuss Martin Wong’s time in, and inspiration from, the crumbling New York of the 1980s.
Topics include: Boutique Yoga Studios and a multitude of Jerry Seinfelds over running NYC throughout the decades. Hey Arnold. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists thumbing their noses at the conventional art genres. The first ever Graffiti museum. Wong’s short life and interest in the people around him. And some groans for the Supreme x Martin Wong collection.
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Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker, your artist sherpas, answer all of your itching syphilis-ridden questions and discuss Dominant Curve; a vibrant, athletic, and abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky from 1936.
Our Art Pantry entry of the week is Oil Paint.
Our Art Assignment is to make an abstract composition, with whatever materials you have (including your cat), based on an instrumental musical composition.
In this episode, we discuss what this podcast is all about. Topics include: Was Kandinsky a low-key cult leader? What is the Bow Wow Haus? Positive vibes and finding that Haystack Feelin’ in the face of a global pandemic, Turkish Airlines’ ridiculously cramped seats, the best pizza in Florence, and of course, the art: A really fantastic painting by Wassily Kandinsky.
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