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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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There is no Art Assignment this week. @ us and # us with a photo of your completed Art Assignment, along with the episode’s title.
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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.
Check out Red Colored Elegy from Drawn & Quarterly! Our Art Pantry Quickie of the week is ‘cels’.
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.
Our Art Pantry Quickie of the week is Gouache.
Our Art Quickie Politicky entry of the week is Anarchy.
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We discuss Three Flags; a drawing from 1960 based on a sculptural painting by the same name from 1958.
Our Art Pantry entry of the week is Encaustic. Our Art Assignment is to make your own personal flag. In this episode, we discuss Jasper John’s disruption of the 1950’s post war New York art scene.
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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