Ep 79: Resilience through Research (Pt 2) w/ Jennifer Coates

Pep Talks for Artists

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What can an artist do during times of political unrest and instability? In this episode (Part 2 of our series), we aim to find out. Jennifer Coates joins me again to share some stories from the past of how artists coped throughout history, because somehow research is very reassuring right now!

We looked at the ways these specific artists reflected and reacted to their time:

Goya: Made his most honest work in secret

Dave Drake: Created signed pottery and poetry and used them to comment on his life and times, even though enslaved

Otto Dix: Painted the horrors of the past in order to warn society against repeating them

Mario Mafai: Documented destruction of housing under Fascism

Felix Nussbaum: Painted even while hiding from the Gestapo

Piet Mondrian: Built a controlled world of harmony and equilibrium to escape to

George Grosz: Openly lampooned everyone in power & the media

Francisco de Goya works: "Goya's Graphic Imagination" exhibition at the Met 2021, "Disasters of War" Etchings 1810-20, "Still Life of a Lambs Head and Flanks" 1812, "The Black Paintings" incl "Saturn Devouring His Son" 1823, "The Dog" 1823, and "Witches Sabbath" 1823

Dave Drake: all examples of stoneware jugs and vessels

Otto Dix works: "The Trench" 1923, "War Cripples" 1920, "The Skull" 1924, "Mealtime in the Trenches" 1924

Mario Mafai works: "Demolition" 1936, "Destruction of the Neighborhoods" 1939

Felix Nussbaum works: "Self-Portrait with Jewish Identity Card" 1943, "Death Triumphant" 1944

Piet Mondrian work: "Tableau 1, Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray" 1926

George Grosz work: "Pillars of Society" 1926

Other artists/movements mentioned: DeStijl Movement, Futurist Movement, Dada Movement, Yves Tanguay

Part 3 is out now!

**Disclaimer: As we are not historians by trade, some factual errors may have slipped through. Apologies if so **

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Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!

All music by Soundstripe

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