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Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Who Arted is art history and art education for everyone. While most art history podcasts focus on the traditional "fine art" we see in museums around the world, Who ARTed celebrates art in all of its forms and in terms anyone can understand. Each episode tells the story of a different artist and artwork including the traditional big names like Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol along with lesser-known artists working in such diverse media as video game design, dance, the culinary arts,

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10:05

Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/07

One Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is not housed in a museum. It is in the Convent of Santa Maria in Milan Italy. It seems totally fitting for a depiction of the last supper was painted on the wall in the convent’s dining hall. Visitors today are often surprised by how enormous the work it. The People are life sized on this massive 15 by 29 foot painting. Another surprising fact is that while people flock to see Leonardo’s work on the wall of the convent, very little if any of what we see

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11:32

Donatello | David

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/06

Donatello’s statue of David, just like the story, seems straightforward and simple at first glance, but with great art, there is always more than meets the eye. His bronze statue of the boy who slayed the giant depicts a figure who seems young and vulnerable yet with confidence and a bit of swagger. This was the first life-sized, free-standing nude statue since antiquity. Donatello and his David were triumphant helping to usher in a re-birth of ancient style for the Italian Renaissance. Ironically,

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12:04

Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/05

Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creation is an absolutely massive painting about 9 feet tall and 20 feet wide. She painted it in 1994 when she was around 84 years old. Most biographies will say that she only painted for the last 8 years of her life, but really, she was only painting for Western audiences for that period. She spent her life learning, practicing and creating in line with the

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8:17

Jan van Eyck | The Arnolfini Portrait

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/04

Jan van Eyck was a remarkable painter. He worked in oils during the Renaissance, and created stunning photorealistic portraits centuries before photography was developmed. In the Arnolfini portrait, he captures not only the subjects standing before him, but also a reflection of the room in a convex mirror showing the full scene and accurately rendering the distortions caused by the curved glass. Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast

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14:51

Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/03

Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the Sky as a monumental print. It is probably among the most ambitious, labor-intensive, and useless books ever to be printed in China or anywhere else. He created 4,000 unique characters on wood blocks to print this massive "book" but while those characters look like Chinese writing, they are actually completely meaningless. A Book from the Sky is one of the required artworks for AP Art History. Check out my Spotify playlist,

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12:32

Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/02

Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goal is to inspire, to make them feel. He talks about the challenge of creating feeling with inert materials. He says it is the movement that brings out a feeling. With his design in Bilbao, Spain, rather than simply designing a building to house a collection of some of the world’s most beautiful and inspiring art, Gehry made the building itself a work of art

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8:29

Louis Sullivan | Carson Pirie Scott Building

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/02/01

In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote about skyscrapers and architectural design in “The Tall Building Artistically Considered” This was the origin of the famous phrase, “form follows function.” What Sullivan actually said was “form must ever follow function” but regardless of phrasing, the meaning remains the same - architects should first consider how a building will be used then base the design on that. One of his most famous designs was for the Carson Pirie Scott building downtown Chicago. Today the

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8:23

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun | Self-Portrait

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/31

In 1778, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun met Marie Antoinette at the Royal palace in Versailles. The queen had heard of Le Brun’s talent and asked to paint her portrait. Marie Antoinette loved the way Le Brun painted her and from that point on, she was pretty much her official royal portrait painter. Le Brun painted 30 portraits of the queen. Almost as quickly as her star rose, her fortunes changed. In 1789, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was forced to flee France in a disguise and under the cover of darkness

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5:51

Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling Water

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/30

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous and influential architects. He famously said, "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other." It was this emphasis on unity between the construction and the surrounding landscape that made Falling Water such a breathtaking design. Related Episodes: Frank Lloyd Wright | Falling Water (full episode) Check out my other podcasts Art Smart

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12:47

Jacob Lawrence | The Migration Series

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/29

Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series was not his only narrative series of paintings, but it was his biggest hit. This collection of 60 painted panels tells the story of The Great Migration as millions of black families moved from the rural South to Northern cities around the time of World War 1. Lawrence was speaking to his experience and the experience of many black Americans in the period between the wars. I think this series resonates with a wide audience because it hits at the hope and the promise

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9:19

Christo and Jeanne Claude | The Gates

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/28

Christo and Jeanne Claude are best known for their monumental works using fabric to transform public spaces. These massive works outside of the museum or gallery context helped to bring art to the masses. Whether people wanted to or not, they were forced to reconsider the space as the building, or the coast was covered in masses of fabric. Related Episodes: Christo and Jeanne Claude | The Floating Piers (full episode) Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is

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9:24

Ai Weiwei | Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/27

Ai Weiwei is possibly the most interesting man in the world. He is not only a famous contemporary artist. He was a top rated blackjack player, a political prisoner and released a heavy metal album about his incarceration. His installation, Kui Hua Zi, consisted of 100 million hand-crafted, porcelain sunflower seeds. Related episodes: Ai Weiwei (full episode) Marchel Duchamp Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are

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8:53

Pablo Picasso | Guernica

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/26

Pablo Picasso was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and Guernica is possibly his greatest work. While I am not a fan of Picasso as a person, his significance as an artist is undeniable. Related Episodes: Pablo Picasso Art Thief? Art Smart: Cubism Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more

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7:37

Andy Warhol | Marilyn Diptych

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/25

In this portrait, Andy Warhol presented Marilyn Monroe in the format typically associated with religious artworks. This work was created just a few weeks after Monroe’s untimely death and it seems like a pop art shrine. Hers was a face that graced the pages of every magazine and tabloid. She was a young girl, Norma Jean who had been plucked from obscurity and celebrated around the world for her beauty, but outside of public view, she struggled with her mental health, failed relationships and

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12:28

Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/24

Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa, part of his series of 36 Views of Mount Fuji. His family was in the mirror business, but Hokusai showed a proclivity for art starting at a young age. When he was 14 he started apprenticing as a wood carver. He spent 4 years carving wood blocks to use as stamps for printmaking. He then went on to study under artists to produce his own designs. His first prints were of actors from the Kabuki theater in 1779. Some years later, he would

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9:06

Wassily Kandinsky

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/23

Wassily Kandinsky was an artist, teacher and art theorist in the early 20th century. His work was very influential in the development of modern, abstract art. He was likely able to paint differently because he experienced the world differently. Kandinsky is thought to have had a rare condition called synesthesia, which is a combining of the senses. For him sound and color were linked. He would see music and often used that for inspiration in his paintings as in the case with Improvisation 28 (second

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7:45

Benin Bronzes | Equestrian Oba and Attendants

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/22

The Benin Bronzes, a collection of exquisite brass and bronze sculptures originating from the Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria), stand as a testament to the artistic brilliance, historical significance, and the complex narrative of colonial exploitation. These bronze pieces were not merely decoration. They recorded the history of the people and the kingdom of Benin. Because the Benin Bronzes hold such great artistic, historical and cultural significance, it seems only fitting that the piece

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12:00

Marcel Duchamp | Fountain

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/21

Marcel Duchamp liked to portray himself as a rebel and an outsider courting controversy. While he was bold and pushing boundaries, he also came from a family of artists and he served as an advisor to the likes of Peggy Guggenheim and MoMA. Two of Duchamp's best known pieces were Nude Descending a Staircase 2 and Fountain. Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media

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11:12

Meret Oppenheim | Object (Luncheon in Fur)

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/20

In 1936, Meret Oppenheim sat down in a cafe with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Picasso took note of Oppenheim's bracelet and commented that anything could be wrapped in fur. Meret replied "even this tea cup" and thus found inspiration for one of the greatest Surrealist sculptures of all time. Other episodes for to explore: Meret Oppenheim | Object (full episode featuring Janet Taylor from The Art of Education University) Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Art Smart: Surrealism Check out my other

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10:36

Henri Matisse | Goldfish

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages ·

2024/01/19

Henri Matisse was born in Northern France on December 31, 1869. His father was a successful grain merchant. In 1887, Henri was well on his way to a successful, respectable career when he went to Paris. He was going to study law, and was working in that arena for a while then at age 20, he had appendicitis. His mom gave him a paint set so he could have something to do while he recovered, and he decided to become an artist. Links: Katsushika Hokusai Vincent van Gogh Henri de Toulouse Lautrec JMW

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