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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, um Eves and Welcome to This

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Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a show that believes no day

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Speaker 1: in history is a slow day. Today is April six

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Speaker 1: The day was April sixth, nineteen seventeen. Artists and writer

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Speaker 1: Leonora Carrington was born in England. Carrington's work incorporated images

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Speaker 1: of domesticity, the occult, fantastical creatures, and autobiographical references. Carrington

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Speaker 1: was born into an upper class Irish Catholic family. Her

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Speaker 1: parents were Marie Moorehead Carrington and Harold Carrington. Leonora grew

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Speaker 1: up on their estate in Lancashire, England, where she was

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Speaker 1: surrounded by animals. She also grew up listening to fairy

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Speaker 1: tales and Celtic folklore, but she didn't completely subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the lifestyle that came with being part of the upper class.

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Speaker 1: She was rebellious and she was expelled from convent schools

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Speaker 1: for her behavior. Her parents wanted her to be a debutante,

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Speaker 1: but she was drawn to art. They sent her to

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Speaker 1: study art for a short time in Florence, Italy, where

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Speaker 1: she was inspired by the sculpture, architecture and paintings though

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Speaker 1: her parents still weren't fans of her artistic inclinations, she

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Speaker 1: was allowed to continue studying art When she returns to England.

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Speaker 1: She went to the Chelsea School of Arts in London,

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Speaker 1: and in nineteen thirty six she enrolled at an academy

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Speaker 1: founded by the French Cubist painter Amadie Osanfan. While at

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Speaker 1: the academy, Leonora found inspiration in a travel memoir written

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Speaker 1: by Alexandra da vide Nell, as well as a book

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Speaker 1: Surrealism by Herbert Read. Leonora attended the International Exhibition of

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Speaker 1: Surrealism in London, where she found herself drawn to surrealist esthetics.

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Speaker 1: In seven, she met Max Ernst, a German artist who

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Speaker 1: was an important figure in the data art movement and Surrealism.

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Speaker 1: The two of them fell in love, and after Ernst

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Speaker 1: and his wife divorced, he and Leonora settled in southern France.

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Speaker 1: Leonora became immersed in her own surrealist art and began

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Speaker 1: exhibiting internationally. During this period, she created paintings such as

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Speaker 1: the Meal of Lord Candlestick and Portrait of Max Ernst,

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Speaker 1: and she published her first short story, The House of Fear,

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Speaker 1: with artwork and an introduction by Ernst. In her early works,

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Speaker 1: she satirized the upper class and rejected parts of her

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Speaker 1: own upbringing, but the onset of World War Two disrupted

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Speaker 1: her and ernst relationship. He was arrested several times and

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Speaker 1: eventually fled to the United States. Leonora left France and

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Speaker 1: went to Spain. There, Carrington had a nervous breakdown and

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Speaker 1: was put into a mental institution. She was subjected to

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Speaker 1: shock treatment, and she later wrote about her challenges with

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Speaker 1: her mental health in the book down below. Once she

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Speaker 1: was released from the institution, she went to the US

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Speaker 1: and married Mexican diplomat Renato Laedu. Their marriage was short lived,

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Speaker 1: in by nineteen forty two, she had moved to Mexico.

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Speaker 1: There she married Hungarian photographer Chicki Vice, with whom she

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Speaker 1: had two children. Her time in Mexico marked a new

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Speaker 1: phase in her artwork. She explored spiritualism, Tibetan Buddhism, the Kabbalah,

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Speaker 1: and Celtic myths. She became close with other surrealists in Mexico,

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Speaker 1: including Romedios Vado and Benjamin Paray, and her artwork continued

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Speaker 1: to reflect her interests in mysticism, symbolism, and other worldly creatures.

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Speaker 1: She stayed in Mexico City for the rest of her life,

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Speaker 1: though she continued to exhibit internationally and visited the US.

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Speaker 1: Carrington died in two thousand and eleven due to complications

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Speaker 1: from pneumonia. I'm Eve Jeff Coote and hopefully you know

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