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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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist and art theorist. He is known as one of the early pioneers of abstract art. Learn a bit about Kandinsky's background, his personal journey from a teacher of Law and Economics to one of the most influential artists o...
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Fun Fact Friday - The Primary Colors: Way More ...
For this week's Fun Fact Friday, I wanted to share a little bit about the Primary Colors. In Art class, we are traditionally taught that all the colors we see are a combination of just red, yellow and blue. This is true to some extent, but teaching that ...
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Phil Hansen
For images and resources, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.comFor this week's episode I spoke with Kelly Beach about the contemporary American artist, Phil Hansen. The specific work being discussed was Hansen's piece Cobain, from his Goodbye Art 2 series. Hans...
28 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Pablo Picasso: Art Thief
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Pablo Picasso is credited with numerous quotes including, "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Interestingly, he may have stolen that idea from T.S. Elliot. It is not entirely clear ...
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Barbara Kruger
For images and more to explore, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this episode, we talked about the Barabara Kruger. She is known for her collages using text often on top of found images in a way that confronts the viewer raising questions about the con...
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Spooktacular Bonus - The Art of the Lego Hidden...
As always you can find more information and resources on my website WhoARTedPodcast.comI thought it would be fun to do a bonus episode this Halloween focusing on the artistry behind the spooky, fun Lego Hidden Side collection. For those who are unfamili...
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Fun Fact Friday - Killer Wallpaper
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This week's fun fact Friday episode focuses on Scheele's green which was a popular green pigment in the victorian era. Unfortunately, while the green was beautiful, it was also ...
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Alexander Calder
As always you can find a picture of the work and more at www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this week's episode we learn a bit about Alexander Calder, the mechanical engineer who became a pioneer of kinetic sculpture. The specific work we looked at in this epi...
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Fun Fact Friday - The Lego House
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For this week's fun fact friday, you can learn about everyone's first and favorite modular building material Lego, and how in 2009 on man (with the help of corporate sponsor...
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Yayoi Kusama
To see the work discussed in this episode, visit www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com Yayoi Kusama is among the most popular contemporary artists. In addition to her beautiful paintings, Kusama makes installations, sculptures, poetry, fashion. She has done a bit of e...
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Fun Fact Friday - The Feud Between Stuart Sempl...
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In this minisode, we learn about some of the petty behavior of "sophisticated" artists. Anish Kapoor has the exclusive rights to use vantablack, the world's blackest black, for art...
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Burton Morris
Go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com to see the work being discussed. This week we talked about the American Pop Art painter, Burton Morris. His work has gained quite a bit of notoriety as it was featured on the hit NBC sitcom Friends. In this episode we discus...
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Fun Fact Friday - What‘s up with ROY G BIV?
This season I thought it would be nice to do a series of minisodes on Fridays. The Fun Fact Friday series will consist of short episodes with little anecdotes about art history and interesting connections to science.
This week's Fun Fact is that the ROY ...
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Marcel Duchamp
For pictures of the works being discussed, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For Season 2, I decided to start by taking a deep dive into Fountain from 1917. Marcel Duchamp started his career as a painter, but his greatest legacy is the readymade which caused...
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Jen Stark
I met with my friend Jeff Arndt, the art teacher at Ranch View Elementary, and we decided to record a quick episode while we were setting up an art show at city hall. For this episode we discussed Jen Stark and her piece Inside Out from 2014.
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OK Go
For this episode, I thought it would be fun to do something a little different. We looked at the work of OK Go, specifically their video for The One Moment. It serves as a fun and accessible piece to start to break down how an audience can make sense of ...
29 min
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Bobbi Cyr
In this episode I spoke with Mrs. Pradel about Bobbi Cyr, a local artist known for her paintings and prints featuring hand lettering. Click here to see the specific piece we discussed in the episode.
25 min
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Carl Larsson
Every episode explores a different artist/work first with a discussion of the context, then looking at one specific piece and finally we share our takeaways to further one's own artistic practice. In this episode we looked at the Swedish painter, Carl La...
24 min
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Diego Velazquez
In this episode, I talked with Rita Woker about Diego Velazquez and his masterpiece, Las Meninas. It was a great privilege to learn from Woker's insights as a person who has seen the work first hand in Spain and her ability to share not only what she kno...
25 min
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Mid Season Review - 10 Takeaways from the first...
This episode shares the 10 bits of advice I would pass on based on what I have learned over the course of the first ten episodes. Click here to view the collection of works discussed throughout the first half of the season and reviewed in this episode. I...
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Frida Kahlo
For this episode, we discussed Frida Kahlo and her Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird from 1940. In each episode, we have 3 segments: In Situ where we discuss the context and biographical information, In Gallery where we discuss one specif...
25 min
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Leonardo da Vinci
For this episode, we discussed Leonardo da Vinci, the artist known to embody the Renaissance ideal of study and mastery of diverse topics. First we discussed the historical context and a little bit about his biography, then for our In Gallery segment, we...
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Romare Bearden
For this episode, we focused on Romare Bearden and his collage The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pinturricchio and Benin). My guest was Hugh Boger, the principal of Scott Elementary School as we discussed the personal history of the artist as well as the...
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Chuck Close
For this episode, I sat down to talk with Chuck Hoff, an amazing art teacher who has mentored me and and collaborated on numerous projects. We talked about one of his favorite artists, Chuck Close, and share some of Close's background and the obstacles h...
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Keith Haring
For this episode we discussed the work and legacy of Keith Haring. He rose to prominence for his Pop Art in the 1980s, but even decades later his work still feels fresh and young because so many of his themes and his imagery are timeless and universal. T...
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