Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist best known for his tendency to be a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. His name is a blocked search term on some social media platforms, he was detained by the government, he destroyed and defaced ancient artworks, he modeled the Olympic stadium after a toilet seat, and he was a top rated blackjack player. He is quite possibly the most interesting man i...

Every day this week, I am rebroadcasting a fan pick to celebrate 3 years of exploring visual arts in an audio medium. Today's fan pick is Jean-Michel Basquiat. This was the most popular episode in the early days. It was the first episode I had to get over 1,000 downloads. Thanks to everyone who has supported me with this podcast by listening, telling friends about the show, or leaving a rating/rev...

This week I am playing fan favorite episodes in the run-up to my 3rd anniversary show. To kick things off, I have this mini episode on Rangoli, which is perfect for this time as many people are creating Rangoli designs as a part of their celebration of Diwali right now. Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePu...

The late 1930s were a rough time in Europe. Nazis were on the rise, and museums began hiding their most treasured works or even shipping them off to safe locations. As all of these works were floating around in the art world and many pieces being hidden, Hans van Meegeren emerged as an art dealer with some lost Vermeers. As I explained in the previous episode about the Vermeer stolen from the Isab...

Who ARTed has been giving you weekly art history for three years now. Help me celebrate the milestone by telling my your favorite episodes from the last three years. Go to www. WhoARTedPodcast.com/vote to tell me your favorite episodes and get a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. There are only 36 Vermeer paintings in the world today and one was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum i...

William Mulmer was born in 1832. For historical context, the oldest known Daguerrotype is from 1837, so Mulmer was born right around the same time as photography, and he loved the new medium, but started off as a hobbyist. Mulmer worked as a jewelry engraver, but in his spare time, he liked taking photographs of his family and friends. In 1860 though, he took a selfie that would change the course...

Frank Lloyd Wright is one of America's most celebrated architects. He developed his distinctive prairie style emphasizing the horizontal planes of the landscape because he wanted his buildings to be in harmony with nature and fit in with their surroundings. While Wright was a highly respected and influential architect in the early 20th century, by the 1930s, he was seen by many as past his prime....

Who ARTed: Weekly Art History for All Ages is turning 3 years old on October 31. Please help me celebrate the milestone. Go to www. WhoARTedPodcast.com/Vote to tell me which were your favorite episodes. One voter will win a $25 Amazon gift card. The other day, one of my students asked me what would happen if he drank paint. He was joking, but it reminded me of a story of women who sometimes played...

My guest this week was Natalie for the podcast, Reframables. Click here for the link tree showing all the places you can find her podcast. Who ARTed is turning 3 years old. Go to www.whoartedpodcast.com/vote to vote for your favorite episodes and get a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. Hilma Af Klint was making abstract paintings before Kaninsky and Mondrian. She was exploring automatic writin...

In 1658, John Comenius created Orbis Sensualium Pictus, which translates to The World Around Us in Pictures. Comenius was a teacher from what is now the Czech Republic and he published his book in Latin and German, though it was a huge hit so it was quickly translated into English as well. Like so many teachers, he created his own resources to help his students learn. He created a book with 150 il...

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Paul Cezanne was an influencial post impressionist painter. He was a very thoughtful and deliberate painter taking an almost scientific approach to the landscape reducing nature to brush strokes that would indicate the various planes. He famously sought to reduce all subjects to a collection of geometric forms. For this episode, I was joined by Dr. Lex, host of the LuxeSci Podcast. Find her show o...

In 1908, Fantasmagorie premiered as the first hand drawn cartoon paving the way for artists like Disney and what we think of as modern animation. See Fantasmagorie here Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www. WhoARTedPodca...

This episode gives a brief overview of the life of Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, and one of his most famous works, the fresco on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. I was joined once again, by my good friend, Chuck Hoff who teaches art at the middle school my students feed into. When he first commissioned the painting for the ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, Pope Ju...

Who ARTed is the art history show dedicated to appreciating art in all of its forms from all sorts of artists. This week's mini-episode is about Pokemon. Pokemon is one of the biggest games in modern history. For over 25 years, hundreds of millions of people around the world have enjoyed videogames, card games, cartoons, and movies. But how did it all get started? For that we need to go back a lit...

Faith Ringgold is an accomplished painter, quilter, author and illustrator. Tar Beach is perhaps her best-known quilt and book. My guest for this episode is a quilter and fellow podcaster Myrtle. She hosts a new podcast A Series of Dysfunctional Events set to launch on October 1. You can find her on her website. Dysfunctionalevents.com Faith Ringgold began writing stories on the quilts as a way of...

Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe diptych is a post modern altarpiece. A diptych is a two-paneled piece. Traditionally, diptychs would be associated with religious artworks. Specifically Christian works. They often conveyed stories of the lives of saints or they were portraits of significant religious figures. A diptych would be a portable altarpiece, hinged so that the artwork could be closed off and prote...

Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist who became well known to most people after he was held by the Chinese government for what many believe to have been political retribution. He has been such a thorn in their side, that his name is a banned search term on some social media. He was a highly rated blackjack player comped in all the casinos of Atlantic City and in addition to monumental works such as...

The School of Athens was a Renaissance masterpiece depicting numerous ancient Greek philosophers and a little selfie by Raphael. If you want to learn more about the Renaissance, check out my other podcast, Art Smart. Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images o...

Martha Graham was a pioneer of modern dance. She was 17 years old when she saw her first dance performance by Ruth St. Denis. A few years later she began studying at Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. In 1922, she danced in a silent film that tried to synchronize the live sound with the film. Basically, they had the dancer and conductor on film an...

The great pyramids constructed by ancient Egyptians at Giza are the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still remaining. These massive stone monuments have left people awestruck for thousands of years. True to the distinction as wonders of the ancient world, people have wondered and speculated about how the great pyramids were constructed pretty much as long as they have been around. Wh...

This is an encore presentation of my episode on Charuvi Agrawal, the contemporary Indian artist. In 2014, she created a massive sculpture of Hanuman using 26,000 bells. I think what I love most about the piece is the way that her work engages the audience. Not only can we see, the piece, but people can touch it, and hear the bells ring out. The audience is not only a viewer, but a participant. Who...

Frida Kahlo was an interesting artist. I first became familiar with her work when I was a teenager after watching a bio pic in an art house theater. She has become an icon of not only art history, but also pop culture. When a person becomes an icon in the popular imagination, it can become a challenge to tell the woman from the myth. If I were to summarize Kahlo in one sentence, I would say she wa...

This is an encore presentation of my episode about Phil Hansen. New full episodes will be coming starting in September. In the meantime, you can find new episodes of Art Smart on your favorite podcast app every Wednesday, and I will be publishing new mini-episodes on Fridays. For images and resources, go to www. WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this week's episode I spoke with Kelly Beach about the contemp...

The history of photography has some really interesting and surprising facts. For example, the camera is about 2000 years older than photography. The earliest known camera obscuras were documented as far back as the 4th century BCE in China, while photography didn‘t really come about until the 18th Century. In the early 19th century, Louis Daguerre was working hard to improve the photographic metho...