Flora Yukhnovich

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In Episode 26 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the highly-acclaimed, sensation of a painter, FLORA YUKHNOVICH! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] And WOW was it an honour to interview Flora at her studio (the week before lockdown!) and discuss in-depth her INCREDIBLE works that adopt the language of the Rococo, reimagining the DYNAMISM of works by 18th century artists such as Tiepolo to Fragonard! Fusing high and low cultures through a filter of contemporary Cultural references, including film, food, and music videos – think Katy Perry to Niki Minaj! – Flora brings in painterly traditions in a more consciously feminine realm by featuring wisps of millennial pinks and purples. Variation is a driving force with mark making ranging from delicate flourishes through dramatic and gestural brushstrokes heightening the rhythmic sensuality that play that conjure up in her MASTERPIECES. Since graduating from City and Guilds in 2017, Flora has gone on to exhibited widely – including at the likes of Leeds Art Gallery, Parafin, Jerwood Gallery, as well as completing the Great Women Artists residency at Palazzo Monti (!) and has a current (now online!) exhibition at VICTORIA MIRO! Check it out: https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/558/ In this episode we uncover Flora's meticulous process, her references, beginnings as an artist, and her love for the Rococo – as well as such an insight into its history. Wow. We also discuss her experience living in Venice, where she visited the Tiepolos on a daily basis, and reimagined them in her masterpieces!!! Flora is a GENIUS, and one of the most highly regarded young painters in the WORLD right now, so please do enjoy this episode! This episode is sponsored by Alighieri https://alighieri.co.uk/ @alighieri_jewellery Use the code: TGWA for 10% off! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Amber Miller (@amber_m.iller) 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 Artists podcast. I hope you are all doing well.
0:07.0	I am really delighted that this episode is sponsored by one of my favourite jewellery brands, Alighieri.
0:14.0	During this difficult time, Alighieri will be donating 10% of all online sales to refuge, the country's largest provider of support to women
0:23.9	and children escaping domestic violence. Alighieri is also offering 10% off for Great
0:30.6	Women Artist listeners with the code TGWA at checkout. See www. www.
0:38.3	a laigieri.com for more.
0:40.5	Here are a few words
0:41.5	from their founder,
0:42.7	Rosh Matani,
0:43.6	and I hope you enjoy
0:44.7	this episode.
0:48.1	In the 12th
0:49.2	canto of purgatory,
0:50.7	Dante finds himself
0:51.5	confronted with great works
0:52.9	of art
0:53.4	from artists such as Chimabue and Jotto,
0:56.0	who he admired so much.
0:58.0	The entire canto is an ode to these fantastic artists and the power of art to lead us through difficult times.
1:06.0	He writes,
1:07.0	What master of brush or chisel could have portrayed the shapes and outlines there,
1:12.2	which would have filled with wonder a discerning mind?
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