Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All...
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, and more. Who Arted is written and produced by an art teacher with the goal of creating a classroom resource that makes art history fun and accessible to everyone. Whether you are cramming for your AP Art History exam, trying to learn a few facts so you can sound smart at fashionable dinner parties, or just looking to hear something with a more positive tone, we’ve got you covered with episodes every Monday and Friday.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat - Untitled Skull (Encore)
This is a rebroadcast of one of the most popular episodes of Who ARTed. For this episode, I spoke with Todd Leban about one of his favorite artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat.During my winter hiatus, I will continue to release new fun fact Friday mini-episod...
30 min
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Fun Fact Friday - The Terracotta Army
Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor created an incredible tomb for himself. He was buried with around 8,000 life-size terracotta statues of different types of soldiers in formation ready to protect him in the afterlife. If that weren't enough he also ha...
3 min
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Barbara Kruger - Don’t Be a Jerk(Encore)
This is an encore of last season's episode about Barbara Kruger and her piece, Don't Be a Jerk. As with previous seasons, I will be taking a bit of a break for December. I will continue to put out new fun fact mini episodes on Fridays, but the Monday ep...
22 min
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Norman Rockwell - Freedom from Want
This week's fun fact friday mini episode is coming on a Thursday in honor of the American Thanksgiving holiday. In this episode I share a little bit about Norman Rockwell and his painting, Freedom from Want.
Freedom from Want was a part of a series he c...
6 min
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Walt Disney
I think a solid argument could be made that Walt Disney was one of the most influential artists in Western history. He not only excelled and pushed boundaries in his art form, but created new categories of art that shaped popular culture around the world...
33 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Dazzle Camouflage
In World War 1, the US and British Navies realized they could not perfectly camouflage their ships and consequently decided to steer hard in the other direction. Instead of trying to hide their ships, they decided to razzle dazzle them and I can only ass...
6 min
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Auguste Rodin.- The Burghers of Calais
Auguste Rodin is considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was a skilled artist capable of sculpting figures with tremendous precision, but he also innovated by combining portions of different cast pieces in his studio creating sculptural mashups. F...
39 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Lascaux Cave Art
On September 12, 1940, a dog fell down a fox hole and four boys went in after it. They descended into a cavern with a makeshift lamp and hopes of finding their dog, but they found way more creatures than they were expecting. The next day they returned be...
7 min
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Rene Magritte - The False Mirror
For this episode, I sat down with my friend and fellow elementary art teacher, Emily Fiedler to talk about Rene Magritte. Those listeners familiar with the work of Rene Magritte probably assume I would devote the second segment of this episode to discus...
26 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Rangoli
It is the start of Diwali, the major festival of light celebrating the triumph of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, light over dark. It is one of the most popular celebrations for Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists. During the festival, one comm...
3 min
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Keith Haring (encore)
Keith Haring is one of my absolute favorite artists, and although this episode was one of the first I recorded (and admittedly a bit rough) it appears to be among the most popular. The thing about Haring's work is that while at first glance, it seems inc...
20 min
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Fun Fact Friday - The Mummy‘s Curse
This episode is about the idea of the Pharaoh's Curse and the untimely demise of people who dared to disturb Tutankhamen's burial chamber. In 1923, Howard Carter and his team broke into the burial chamber of Tutankhamen, commonly referred to as "King Tut...
9 min
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Jim Davis
In this episode I spoke with Lyndsey Little, the illustrator and creator of the Oni Girl comic about Jim Davis, the creator of the classic comic strip, Garfield.Davis was born July 28,1945 in Marion Indiana. He grew up on a cow farm. He actually wanted ...
36 min
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Fun Fact Friday - The Scream
The Scream is one of the most widely recognized and widely parodied modern artworks. It was the inspiration for the mask in the horror movie Scream, as well as the famous scene in Home Alone where a young Macaulay Culkin screamed after applying aftershav...
6 min
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AWESOME ANNOUNCEMENT - Art Explora Academy
The Art Explora Foundation has created an online academy, and it is completely free! The Art Explora Academy includes 11 courses and learners can earn a certificate supported by Sorbonne University. In addition, this incredible resource has a rich media ...
2 min
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Dan Santat
For this episode, I spoke with Tony Kresl, one of my favorite librarians. For a while, I have been wanting to do an episode on an illustrator, and Tony shared one of his favorites, Dan Santat. Dan Santat is a writer and illustrator based out of Californ...
31 min
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Fun Fact Friday - The World‘s Oldest Art
Recently, an argument has been made that the oldest artwork we have is in the form of fossilized handprints and footprints left in travertine on the Tibetan plateau. Dating back 169,000 to 226,000 BCE, there is no real argument that these would be the ol...
4 min
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Vincent Van Gogh (Part 2)
In this episode, I continued my discussion with Chuck Hoff about Vincent van Gogh. We covered the later part of his life and career after he moved to France. The painting we specifically focused our attention on was The Starry Night from 1889. During the...
41 min
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Fun Fact Friday - DayGlo Colors
For this week's fun fact Friday mini episode, I share a little bit of the history of DayGlo colors. The corporation and their eye catching colors were developed by two brothers in the early 20th century, and they are responsible not only for rad, psyched...
7 min
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Vincent Van Gogh (Part 1)
This week's episode is going to be a 2 part episode. My good friend, fellow art teacher and former mentor, Chuck Hoff joined me to talk about one of my favorite artists of all time, Vincent Van Gogh.In part 1, we discuss his early life and his first maj...
40 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Take the Money and Run
For this week's #FunFactFriday mini episode, learn about the conceptual art piece that has been getting headlines recently. Jens Haaning is a Danish artist who was loaned $84,000 to re-create 2 of his previous works for an exhibition at a museum. He deci...
8 min
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Salvador Dali
For this episode, I spoke with author, Kristina Parro about one of the oddest artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dali. Parro was fascinated by Dali and included him as one of the characters in her historical fiction work, Lucky: A Novel. He was known ...
32 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Who Created The Smiley Face?
For this week's Fun Fact Friday mini episode, learn a little bit about the smiley face. The iconic image of a yellow circle with two dots and a smile actually has a surprising history. The design was commissioned to boost morale around the office at an i...
5 min
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Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami is one of the most prominent contemporary Japanese painters. I spoke with Toki from the podcast Japan Explained to get some insights into Murakami and how his work is a reflection of modern and traditional Japanese culture. Takashi Mura...
26 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Jackson Pollock Rags to Riches
Jackson Pollock grew up in a family that struggled financially. He was expelled from two different high schools and bounced around doing odd jobs early in his adulthood. When Peggy Guggenheim started to collect his work, it was like Jackson Pollock won t...
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