Episode 62 - Leonor Fini

<p>Our story for this episode comes from our friends at the Dead Ladies Show NYC, which is organized and hosted by Molly O’Laughlin Kemper with Sheila Enright.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> Photographer, professional eccentric and guinea pig lover JR Pepper tells the tale of artist Leonor Fini, a glamorous, passionate iconoclast (and cat lover) with a brilliant creative mind who was fiercely independent — at a time when women were allowed to be muses, not painters.</p> <p>Fini is often called a Surrealist, but she didn’t consider herself one of their group due to their misogynistic attitudes, which included viewing women as either a childlike muse or femme fatale. Her paintings utilized the female gaze, and often featured catlike and other creatures inspired by Fini’s own appearance, accompanied by languid men. Leonor Fini’s life was as rule-breaking as her art; she had many lovers, and spent much of her life living in a happy throuple — along with about 20 cats.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire joins producer/host Susan Stone to introduce this episode’s featured Dead Lady.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>For more on Leonor Fini, please visit our episode notes at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><a href= "https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/04/13/podcast-62-leonor-fini/">https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/04/13/podcast-62-leonor-fini/</a></p> <p>For DLS NYC info and tickets, sign up to their newsletter here: <a href= "https://tinyletter.com/DeadLadiesShowNYC">https://tinyletter.com/DeadLadiesShowNYC</a></p> <p>or follow them on Instagram @deadladiesnyc</p> <p>Find JR Pepper on Instagram @girlduality<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space">and listen to her talk about Mae West here: <a href= "https://deadladiesshow.com/2022/08/17/podcast-56-mae-west/">https://deadladiesshow.com/2022/08/17/podcast-56-mae-west/</a></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-converted-space">Our episo