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EP 0: Intro to La Vie Creative
La Vie Creative
03/27/20 • 2 min
Born out of the Corona Virus, this podcast consists of interviews with artists in Paris, France. This podcast was built to help and bring attention to all the wonderful artists in Paris as well as inspire others to discover their creative gifts.
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EP 44: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Sylvia Beach)
La Vie Creative
09/28/20 • 33 min
Sylvia Beach, the sweet woman that had a love of books and sharing them with others in her legendary store Shakespeare and Company holds the spotlight in this week's episode.
Arriving in Paris during WWI to study French Literature, a flier would lead her to a book shop on Rue de l'Odeon and into the door and heart of Adrienne Monnier.
Opening her first store on November 19, 1919, on Rue Dupuytren she would welcome James Joyce as an early customer and later partner in publishing Ulysees.
Her shop would become the post office and gathering spot of the American ex-pats in Paris and each of them would form deep respect and love for the kind Sylvia, especially Ernest Hemingway.
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EP 20: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Victorine Meurent)
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07/06/20 • 22 min
Out today, another story of one of the amazing women in French history. Victorine Meurent was born in Paris on February 18. 1844 and from an early age she was drawn to art. In 1862 Edouard Manet walked into Thomas Couture’s studio and met a young girl. On this one day, Victorine-Louis Meurent was in Couture’s studio when Manet arrived. She was just 16, with red hair and nicknamed La Crevette and would go on to become the muse for some of the biggest artists at that time. He would paint her for the first time in The Street Singer, with her piercing eyes that we would come to know so well in two of his most famous and controversial paintings. Victorine would sit for him 8 or 9 times.
Many may know her name because of one fantastic painting, Olympia. The painting that rocked the Salon of 1863 with its suggestive subject of the courtesan laying naked on her bed while her servant brings her flowers from one of her admirers. Given the name Olympia, a name associated with prostitutes and the many small elements that hint at her wealth, many of which transferred over to the model herself. Victorine was nothing close to the woman in the painting, Born to a well established artistic family she would become an artist herself and present her work at the Salon in 1870.
However it is her Manet paintings that we know so well. Now the other most famous painting may or may not even be her. In 1862 when Manet painted Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, another painting that would shock the art world he may have used her as the model, but it is more likely that he used his lover Suzanne Leenhoff. However at the end he would use the face of Victorine to conceal the woman he was in a secret relationship with.
She would sit for him a last time in 1873 for The Railway before they parted ways. Through her own art classes she preferred the academic style and Manet never liked being defined by any style.
Sadly only two of her paintings remain at the museum in Colombes. Other than Berthe Morisot and Suzanne Valadon, , Victorine is a beautiful face we know so well from the brush of Manet.
https://www.claudinehemingway.com/paris-history-avec-a-hemingway-podcast-1
Ep 146: Frances takes us inside the world of Versailles Immersive Experience with Eat the Cake Studio
La Vie Creative
09/15/21 • 39 min
FRANCES BIO:
Frances is a Latina powerhouse creative with over 30 years of experience in the arts and entertainment industry spanning theater, cinema, and video games. She has a passion for creating rich and dynamic story worlds that conjure curiosity and inspire play. She is co-founder and CEO of Eat the Cake Studio, a women-run immersive entertainment studio dedicated to redefining the experience of storytelling and audience engagement. Frances is also passionate about history and thrives in showcasing fascinating women from history at the heart of her projects. Performing artist, scriptwriter, businesswoman, and even mixologist... Her unconventional path through life has made her versatile, curious, and always ready for a challenge!
PROJECT BLURB:
Eat the Cake Studio’s signature universe is Versailles Imagined, an immersive universe around Versailles and one of its most iconic residents, Marie Antoinette. In 2019, Eat the Cake Studio began production on LET THEM EAT CAKE - THE SHOW, an intimate immersive show set around Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. With the pandemic, the company had to put the live production on hold and pivoted to creating immersive, interactive online content with their show cast, including BEAUTY AND GOSSIP FROM THE 18TH CENTURY - an Airbnb Online experience; LADIES OF VERSAILLES, an online encounter with Marie Antoinette and her favorites (also available in person!), and SCANDAL AT VERSAILLES: IN THE SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE: a create-your-own-adventure multimedia online experience based on the scandal that rocked the court: The Affair of the Necklace (currently in development.) They plan to launch a Western-based universe shortly and they hope to restart production on their live show soon!
If you are in Paris and you would like to spend a couple of hours living like royalty with the Queen or one of her favorites, then look no further! Eat the Cake Studio will make those wishes come true!
PROJECT LINKS:
www.airbnb.com/experiences/2515977
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Instagram: Versailles_Imagined
Facebook: Let Them Eat Cake_The Show
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eat-the-cake-studio - https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesvierasblanc/
10/27/21 • 31 min
Kyra is the founding Paris Artistic Director of Dance Theatre Surreality. A choreographer, teacher, and performer, she collaborates with artists from a wide range of disciplines on feminist and spiritual themes. Her works have been presented at various Parisian art galleries and theaters, as well as in Detroit, her city of origin. Kyra leads consent and bodily autonomy workshops in France and the United States and is a full-time contemporary dance teacher in the Paris region. She has recently earned her French State Diploma in dance pedagogy and holds a Masters in Translation from Université Paris VII and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.
Project title: solo-cum-trio
Goals: solo-cum-trio is a community engagement performance project. This work seeks to raise awareness of holistic healing techniques, mental health, and self-defense in underserved communities in Vitry-sur-Seine and the La Chappelle neighborhood of Paris through a Franco-American movement research and wellness cultural exchange.
Description: solo-cum-trio uses dance to explore three spiritual archetypes: the healer, the saboteur, and the warrior. The work brings together experts from the fields of holistic healing, psychology, and martial arts at the service of the community.
Choreographer Kyra Hauck is being hosted in residency by Espace Canopy, an art gallery in Paris, in August-December 2021. The gallery is providing rehearsal space to develop the work, as well as a performance venue. Performance events will include self-defense and martial arts workshops provided for free to the community and round table discussions with panelists from each field. The performance, workshop, and round table will be projected on a double-facing screen at Espace Canopy and streamed simultaneously at the host institution in New York City, TheaterLab, as well as online.
https://dansetheatresurreality.org/
@danse_theatre_surreality
12/18/23 • 24 min
EP 36: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Berthe Morisot)
La Vie Creative
08/31/20 • 28 min
Berthe Morisot, one of the few women of the Impressionist Movement, with her dark locks and stunning gaze, was the perfect model for Édouard Manet. However, she would become an artist in her own right stepping behind the canvas to create paintings that showed everyday family life, forging her own path among the male dominated Impressionists
Born on January 14, 1841 to a wealthy family, her father was the prefect but also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her mother was the niece of the Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard, she was born with art running in her veins. In 1852 they moved to Paris and her parents let Berthe and her sister Edma take art lessons from Joseph Guichard.
The two girls visited the Louvre as art students and spent their day copying the great masters under the watchful eye of Guichard. One day artist Henri Fantin-Latour took his friend Édouard Manet to the Louvre to meet the Morisot sisters who were copying a Rubens painting. It would be the start of a very long friendship.
Following Manet’s shocking of the Parisian Salon with Olympia and Déjeuner sur l’herbe he was looking for a new model, and Berthe would have everything he wanted. In 1868, Manet painted The Balcony for which Berthe would pose after much apprehension. Being a model for an artist was not the profession for a woman of society in Paris at the time. Continuing to work with Manet for six years, he would capture her many times including his hauntingly beautiful painting, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets that can be seen in the Orsay. Painted in 1872 Morisot is in black mourning attire after her father's death. You almost miss the violets as you are so drawn to her striking face. Morisot and Manet had a relationship built on great respect and between two artists. I can stand in front of this painting for hours and lose all track of time.
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EP 77: Paris History Avec a Hemingway (Marie Bracquemond)
La Vie Creative
01/18/21 • 21 min
When the Impressionist artists ruled Paris, there were a few women that made their way into the exclusive club. Known as Les Trois Grandes Dames, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Marie Bracquemond mixed and mingled with the likes of Manet, Degas, and Renoir.
Marie Bracquemond however had a very different life than Morisot or Cassatt. Raised in a family that had very little money but with a love of painting early on, she created her own paint colors using flower petals.
Without money or family support it was difficult to find a teacher until Auguste Vassor agreed to take her on. Under Vassor at just seventeen years old she finished and presented her first painting to the Paris Salon. The painting of her mother and sister was accepted and displayed for all to see including Ingres. Quite impressed with the young girl's talent, he invited her to his atelier to learn under the master. Ingres didn’t take women very seriously and only gave them images of flowers and fruit to paint. Marie grew very tired and left looking for other challenges.
Empress Eugene, wife of Napoleon III and a big promoter of women in art saw her work and commissioned her to paint a few paintings for her. Marie's career was really taking off until she met her future husband Felix Bracquemond. At first, he was supportive of her art, he was an artist himself. As an engraver and porcelain painter he would share his craft with her and also become angrier with her talent.
Marie today is mostly forgotten and little of her work remains. Listen to her whole story and the few things that kept her going during her unhappy marriage in this week's episode
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EP 109: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Juliette Drouet)
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05/10/21 • 25 min
The life of Juliette Drouet is closely tied to Victor Hugo, but she wasn’t always his mistress.
Juliette’s beautiful head turning looks was garnering the attention of Paris, especially the men. In a way to help fund her shopping sprees, a life as a courtesan and on the stage fit the bill. Not exactly a natural actor, but her looks got the attention of the producers and audience and repeatedly got her roles onstage at the Theatre du Parc de Bruxelle in Paris. In 1833 a small role in Victor Hugo’s Lucretius Borgia would instantly catch the famed writer's attention. Mrs. Hugo, Adele even sent her a note that her husband would love to meet her.
The first six months after they met it stayed very friendly until he couldn’t resist the fiery Juliette who had a reputation as a dominatrix. Toto, as she called Hugo in no time, paid off her debts and rented an apartment for her near his Place des Vosges home on the Rue Sainte-Anastase, but came with a very high cost. Her old ways on stage or as a courtesan had to stop and wasn’t allowed to leave her home without Victor Hugo.
For fifty years, the two stayed together and she served as his secretary and copied each of his books and articles he wrote. Adele was aware of their relationship and even left in her will that her sons look after her in case Victor died before her. Adele had her own relationship with a former close friend of her husband Sainte-Beauve resulting in their somewhat open marriage.
Shortly after, Hugo was forced to exile to Brussels and out of the clutches of all the other women. Juliette set up his papers and a place to stay and traveled with him and stayed nearby allowing them to have a somewhat normal relationship. During his exile, Adele died back in Paris in 1868 and upon his return in 1870 Juliette was finally allowed into the doors of the Place des Vosges home and home on the now Avenue Victor Hugo.
After 50 years together, on May 11, 1883 Juliette died of stomach cancer, she was 77 years old. Hugo was destroyed and would die two years later.
Listen to the episode to learn more about her life that inspired art.
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How many episodes does La Vie Creative have?
La Vie Creative currently has 479 episodes available.
What topics does La Vie Creative cover?
The podcast is about Learning, Photography, Self Improvement, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Art, Podcasts, France, Self-Improvement, Education and Travel.
What is the most popular episode on La Vie Creative?
The episode title 'EP 0: Intro to La Vie Creative' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on La Vie Creative?
The average episode length on La Vie Creative is 31 minutes.
How often are episodes of La Vie Creative released?
Episodes of La Vie Creative are typically released every 4 days, 13 hours.
When was the first episode of La Vie Creative?
The first episode of La Vie Creative was released on Mar 27, 2020.
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