Barbara Bloemink on Florine Stettheimer

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In episode 83 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the esteemed scholar, Barbara Bloemink, on the Jazz Age visionary, FLORINE STETTHEIMER!! *BOOK NEWS!* I have written a book! Order The Story of Art without Men here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-story-of-art-without-men/katy-hessel/9781529151145 A feminist, multi-media artist, Jazz-Age saloniste, poet and designer who captured the vibrancy and momentum of New York City’s growth between the World Wars, Stettheimer worked across words, painting, furniture and even costume design. To me was a revelation – and just as Georgia O'Keeffe so aptly observed in her friend: "Fantasy and reality all mixed up. She was perfectly consistent with any of her inconsistencies." Although painting the glittering world of Europe and New York at the start of the twentieth century, Stettheimer was so much more than that. Above all, she was a visionary, who pioneered every field she found herself in, whether it be making costumes for Getrude Stein’s opera or boldly presenting herself in a fully-nude self portrait aged 46, reclaiming Manet’s Olympia. Inventing a new language for modernism which was so brilliantly, charmingly and uniquely her own, with its whimsical figures who burst among the skyscrapers of NYC, Stettheimer drenched her paintings in bright shimmering colours and rich thick, textures. ENJOY! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Research assistant: Viva Ruggi Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Great Woman Artist podcast. It's Katie here and just before we get
0:05.5	today's episode on the brilliant Florin Settimer, I want to let you know I have written a book
0:11.3	which is out the September. Published by Penguin, The Story of Art Without Men, aims to retell
0:17.1	history with pioneering non-mail artists who spearhead of movements and redefined
0:22.6	the canon. It is available to pre-order now from Waterstones and more, and I have linked to the book
0:28.1	in the show notes. But in this series, I am so excited to be continuing my partnership with the
0:33.6	brilliant Allegieri Jewelry, who have been supporting the GWA podcast for the past two years.
0:39.7	Alligieri creates fragmented talismans of imperfection,
0:43.1	handcast in London's hat and garden from recycled silver and gold.
0:47.3	The brand was founded by Rosh Matani to guide her through a dark time.
0:51.6	Each piece has a story and invites you to unlock your own.
0:55.2	A love letter to Florence. In honour of Dante Day, Roche travelled back to Florence,
1:00.8	the hometown of the incredible Italian poet and inspiration behind the brand, Dante Alighieri.
1:07.6	Roche fell in love with Dante's work and the story of being lost in a dark wood, journeying through to find the light and find his way out of the dark. As an ode to Dante, the signature monogrammed Aligieri ring was launched to celebrate the inspiring poetry of Dante. Many believe that Dante Aligieri wrote the Divine Comedy as a love letter to Beatrice
1:28.9	Pontinari, a woman he longed to be with. Henry Holidays 1884 Dante and Beatrice
1:35.3	shows beer snubbing Dante on the Ponti Santa Trinita in Florence. The flame of desire
1:41.6	locket necklace is dedicated to the full love affair between the two.
1:45.9	The surreal heart-shaped amulet embodies the complexity of love and the ups and downs that it brings.
1:52.8	At the forefront of Rosh's love story with Florence is their Ily Medallion, one of the first pieces created by Rush after she had stumbled on an old Venetian coin in a market in Florence.
2:03.6	The coin had an engraving of a lion which she felt so clearly depicted the one which Dante had described throughout his work.
2:10.6	Rush took this as an inspiration and created her own medallion, which was a secret message to herself to be brave.
2:18.5	The Leone Medallion is the perfect starting piece for any layering look to bring you strength and courage on your adventures.
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