Secrets Behind the MasterpiecesConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 1312, Segment 2
Jun 28, 2022 • 22m
Forget linear perspective and chiaroscuro, lets get the stories behind the masterpieces: Maybe Van Gogh was murdered and didn't commit suicide after all. Who is the woman who pushed Norman Rockwell in a more political direction? Why would the CIA secretly pour funding into abstract expressionism? Art has never been so engaging before.
Guest: Jennifer Dasal, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art; creator and host of the podcast ArtCurious; author of “ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History”