19th century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron; through the lens of her camera and cumbersome wet collodion process, Cameron reveals the beauty, intelligence and spirit of her sitters. We will look closely at the image "Cassiopeia," from 1864. I also highlight the contemporary photographer Zach Rubin from Z Rubin Photo. Follow links below to learn more.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: www.themetmuseum.org and Victoria and Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk and Zach Rubin Photo at https://zrubinphoto.myportfolio.com or @zrubinphoto on Instagram.

The art of expatriate American painter Romaine Brooks cannot be separated from her life as woman and a lesbian. Come into her world through her painting White Azaleas.

You can see the images @beyondthepaintpodcast on Instagram or at my website beyondthepaint.net Image Credits: Smithsonian Museum https://americanart.si.edu

Suzanne Valadon, an early modernist painter, reflects her experience as a sitter for artists like the Impressionist Renoir, turning the convention of the ideal female form on its head. She presents us with a "modern" woman who has little care for the standards of beauty.

Links to the works discussed: "The Blue Room," Musée National d'Art Moderne and "Venus of Urbino," https://www.uffizi.it/en/the-uffizi

Explore the visual world through the medium of colorful threads and fabrics in the miniature works by American textile artist Sheila Hicks. This podcast episode is dedicated to my friend Wendy. :)
Learn more at https://www.sheilahicks.com

Painter Esphyr Slobodkina creates compositions of hard-edged forms and colors, structures\ that express a universal visual vocabulary not found in nature.

Links to learn more about Slobodkina include her foundation at https://www.slobodkinafoundation.org/. She also authored and illustrated children's books including "Caps for Sale." Image Credit: New Britain Museum of American Art (www.nbmaa.org)
Visit www.beyondthepaint.net.

Dive into the aura of pure color through the paintings of 20th-century painter, Sonia Delaunay.

"Electric Prisms," oil on canvas, 1914; Collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

References I used for this podcast episode include, "Sonia Delaunay," Arthur A. Cohen and the Museum of Modern Art (www.moma.org)

Explore the daring and innovative artist, considered the first modern woman to reconfigure the nude and challenge traditional representations of the female body in art.

Resources used in this podcast episode include: "Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist," by author Diane Radycki and Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
https://www.museen-boettcherstrasse.de/museen/paula-modersohn-becker-museum/

Explore utopian ideas of pure abstraction in the paintings by Russian avant-garde painter Kazimer Malevich.

Work discussed, "Untitled," oil on canvas work, 1916 is part of the collection at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Learn more at https://www.guggenheim.org.

Dive into the painting, "Suburbs of Berlin 1912" and experience the vision and interpretation of a cityscape in Berlin, Germany by Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

I want to acknowledge two authors who provided valuable resources for the preparation of this episode: Eric Zafron and Paul Paret ("Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art") and a wonderful book that gives an excellent overview of Modernism: Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Modern Art."
Image Credit: Wadsworth Atheneum: thewadsworth.org

Enter into the evocative images of 20th-century photographer Ruth Bernhard. I highlight two works in this podcast episode, “Two Leaves” and “Two Forms.” Image Credit: International Center of Photography. http:// https://www.icp.org