Episode #111: Modern Love--Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso
ArtCurious Podcast

Episode #111: Modern Love--Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso

B2Upper-intermediateMay 15, 202331 min

This season, I’m rounding up stories about modern artists in love, in lust, in relationships— digging into these individuals, see how their liaisons, marriages, affairs, and connections played in or on their respective works of art, and how, if anything, they affected art history as we know it. I, for one, believe that it’s time for Modern Love. Today: we’re discussing the lives and loves of Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Sponsor ArtCurious for as little...

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The Art Curious Podcast is sponsored primarily by Anchor Light. Artist studios, exhibition space, and more. Please visit anchorlightraleigh.com. You know how lots of times celebrities end up marrying other celebrities?

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It's a power play a lot of the time, this way to merge two bright and shiny people into one bright and shiny partnership. Now, I, for one, cannot speak to this kind of relationship unless you count two professional independent podcasters as a celebrity couple,

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which would be delusional. But I've also thought that the whole celebrity relationship thing is probably built for many on one additional aspect, understanding. Famous people who live their lives in the limelight understand the pressures,

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