Art Slice - A Palatable Serving of Art History

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.

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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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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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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!

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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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