Art Slice - A Palatable Serving of Art History - 18: Deadly Roses & Haunting Wells: Hokusai - House of Plates, 1832 / Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - Perfumed Death, 1921

18: Deadly Roses & Haunting Wells: Hokusai - House of Plates, 1832 / Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - Perfumed Death, 1921

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12/30/21 • 61 min

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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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Spookephanie Dueñas and Russell Cryptmaker are back for this special Creature Double Feature episode:

Pick up our new Art Slice Museum Shirt by Son Siwakorn here: https://www.artslicepod.com/shop

Be sure to listen to all the cuts that didn’t make it into the episode (and there are plenty in this one) on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artslicepod

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.

Check out Austin’s beautiful, lost-wax technique jewelry on Instagram: @spicywitchsoup

Check out the new Art Crime podcast Caper:

https://ochentastudio.com/caper-podcast

Reviewing, subscribing, liking, and sharing really helps support the show:

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17: Maria Martins ;) Marcel Duchamp - The Impossible 1946 & Étant donnés 1946 - 1966

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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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19: The Giottosphere - Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes

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.

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The Art Pantry this week is Trompe L’oeil.

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