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Episode #112: Modern Love--Robert Rauschenberg, with Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns (Season 13, Episode 5)
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 homing in on the love affairs of Robert Rauschenberg, moving from Cy Twombly and on to Jasper Johns—a series of relationships that lasted only briefly, but whose effects on modern art are still felt to thi...
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The Art Curious Podcast is sponsored primarily by Anchor Light, artist studios, exhibition space, and more. Please visit anchorlightraleigh.com. I often share the story of my experiences with art and art making from when I was a kid. And by my experiences, I mean, I hardly had any.
With the exception of one pretty terrible art teacher when I was in middle school. That art teacher was so bad, so demanding, that she took all the fun out of art. And for me, someone who wasn't already all that invested in art, that was a big deal. It turned me off of art even further than I already was, and that intensely negative
feeling stayed with me for almost a decade, all the way until I found myself, against my hopes, in my very first art history class in college. The gist of this story is one that I think many of us can understand. That a person, like an art teacher, can pass through our lives, or it's an event, however fleeting, that occurs.
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