Furio Rinaldi on Tamara de Lempicka

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the great women artists podcast is the renowned curator, scholar, and expert in 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings, Furio Rinaldi to discuss TAMARA DE LEMPICKA! Dubbed “the Baroness with the Brush'', Lempicka at the height of the 1920s found herself at the centre of Parisian life, and constructed some of the most radical, liberal and avant-garde images. From reworking traditional subjects to melding the meticulous techniques of Renaissance painting with cold and shiny art-deco aesthetics to evoke the fast-industrialising world. Born in Poland at the end of the 19th century, Lempicka was raised in Russia, but escaped at the outbreak of the revolution. From there, she settled in Paris: the centre of the avant-garde, and thrived. She painted celebrated characters in the highest fashions of the day, and embraced sexual liberations. Epitomising the modern woman, she was apparently known to break only for “baths and champagne”, this was, of course in her modernist apartment-slash-studio, designed by her equally successful sister, Adrienne Górska. Currently holding the post of Curator of drawings and prints at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the largest collection of works on paper in Western United States – where he has just staged the most extraordinary Botticelli exhibition – Furio is acclaimed for his work on Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. A writer – he has published extensively in The Burlington Magazine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal and more, but perhaps he is best known for his curatorial eye, having organised the fantastic Legion of Honor exhibition Color into Line: Pastel from the Renaissance to the Present, and next year, will curate a groundbreaking exhibition – and the first major show on the West Coast – on the Polish-born painter Tamara de Lempicka – who is very excitingly the artists we will be discussing today. -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to series 10 of the Great Women Artists podcast.
0:05.9	I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection,
0:10.6	a vast and varied art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to fantastic works by women artists.
0:17.4	The Levitt Collection's support for women in the arts is such that preparations are in full swing for the creation of the new museum, FAM, FAMM, which will be opening in June 24 in Mujan in the south of France.
0:31.6	It will be the first major museum in mainland Europe dedicated to solely female artists and will exhibit a myriad of
0:39.5	artworks all from the collection. Impressionist, surrealist, modern and contemporary art created by women
0:45.8	from around the world will take pride of place in the Levitt's new museum, female artists of the
0:50.8	Mujan Museum. But in the meantime, stay tuned by following at fam.m.m
0:56.1	and don't miss the beautiful book, Abstract Expressionists, The Women, published by Marelle,
1:01.4	which presents a selection of works from the collection, alongside richly illustrated essays by
1:06.2	scholars LNG Landau and Joan M. Marta, all available now. I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:17.0	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:25.2	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists. An Instagram account,
1:28.6	I set up in October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from
1:34.3	young graduates to old masters. Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is
1:40.5	all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:45.3	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators,
1:50.9	or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:54.9	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities
1:59.5	so you, the listener, can gain a look
2:02.1	into the greatest female artists working now
2:04.4	or from art history.
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