{"id":18870,"date":"2018-10-05T01:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:28:42","slug":"leonor-fini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/10\/05\/leonor-fini\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonor Fini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been hoping for years that a proper documentary about the enigmatic Argentinian artist might surface, and here one is at last. Leonor Fini<\/em> (1987) was directed by Chris Vermorcken, and as a portrait of an artist it’s almost as good as the films the BBC used to produce for the Arena<\/em> arts strand. I say “almost” because the Arena<\/em> template tended to blend a biographical sketch with the life of the artist or writer at the present moment. Vermorcken encourages Fini to tell us about her early years in Trieste up to her meeting with the Surrealists in Paris, after which the discussion meanders to her vast company of Persian cats and the various forms of her painting and drawing.<\/p>\n

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Unlike most other films about Fini, this one is subtitled throughout so we can enjoy her reading from some of the stories that accompany her drawings, and also find out which films she liked. (Fellini’s Casanova<\/em> was a favourite.) There’s also an appearance by Konstanty Jelenski, one of the points of the bisexual m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois<\/em> formed by Jelenski, Fini and Count Stanislas Lepri, all of whom lived together in the cat-infested house. Essential viewing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Leonor Fini: comment vivre sans chat<\/a>
\n\u2022 Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Leonor Fini, 1907\u20131996<\/a>
\n\u2022 Surrealist women<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hoping for years that a proper documentary about the enigmatic Argentinian artist might surface, and here one is at last. Leonor Fini (1987) was directed by Chris Vermorcken, and as a portrait of an artist it’s almost as good as the films the BBC used to produce for the Arena arts strand. I … Continue reading “Leonor Fini”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,7,5,44,18,19],"tags":[9717,9718,9719,730],"class_list":["post-18870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-gay","category-painting","category-surrealism","category-television","tag-chris-vermorcken","tag-count-stanislas-lepri","tag-konstanty-jelenski","tag-leonor-fini"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}