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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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...
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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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Janet Sobel
For the season opener, I was joined by Garret McCorkle of the podcast No Country for History. His podcast focuses on obscure bits of American history so we focused on an awesome, but largely forgotten American painter. Janet Sobel may not be a household ...
39 min
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Season 2 Finale -REBROADCAST The Arts Madness W...
I am wrapping up this season with the conclusion to my Arts Madness Tournament. Over the last 6 weeks, voters have narrowed the field from 64 down to 1 ultimate artist. I really appreciated everyone who took the time to participate. Hopefully you have le...
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Fun Fact Friday - From a King‘s Bathroom to an ...
The Louvre is one of the most famous museums in the world with an expansive collection of some of the greatest masterpieces ever created. Interestingly, it did not start out that way. The building actually started as a medieval fortress. It had a moat, w...
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Georgia O‘Keeffe vs. Yayoi Kusama
We are entering the final round of this year's Arts Madness Tournament. For those listeners outside the United States, every spring, there is a giant basketball tournament called, March Madness, as 64 different college teams compete. The Arts Madness Tou...
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Fun Fact Friday - The Art World is Bananas
In 2019, Maurizio Cattelan displayed a piece at Art Basel Miami, and it grabbed headlines around the world. The artwork titled Comedian consisted of simply a banana duct taped to a wall. Cattelan was offering 3 editions of this work and actually sold two...
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Georgia O‘Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe is considered the mother of American modernism. Her influence actually reached beyond American borders. Yayoi Kusama was not only inspired by O'Keeffe, but Georgia O'Keeffe was generous enough to give her advice and even offer to allow h...
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Fun Fact Friday - Georgia O‘Keeffe Painted in h...
For this week's Fun Fact Friday mini episode, I am sharing an interesting little tidbit I found about Georgia O'Keeffe. While she is best known for her paintings of nature specifically, her most popular works are close cropped images of flowers or images...
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a Cuban American artist who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with his poignant minimalist installations. His stack pieces of unlimited edition prints make the fine art gallery space more democratic. Patrons a...
29 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Andy Warhol had a Mummy Foot
Andy Warhol was an odd dude with an expansive and extremely odd collection. He basically hoarded all he could with boxes of stuff that could fill warehouses. His collection ranged from the ordinary objects that were the subjects of his iconic pop art, to...
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Andy Warhol
For this week's episode, we focused on one of the most famous and influential Pop Artists of all time, Any Warhol. Andy Warhol was born, Any Warhola but later dropped the 'a' because he loved mass production and tended to favor shortcuts, so I guess eve...
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Fun Fact Friday - Purple
For this fun fact Friday mini episode, I discuss the color purple. Purple has long been associated with royalty and that is largely because purple dyes have been hard to come by. The time consuming, labor and resource intensive process of producing purpl...
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Bisa Butler
For this episode, I spoke with Dr. Rosemary Lee an artist far more serious and accomplished than myself to gain some insights into the work of Bisa Butler. Specifically we talked about The Safety Patrol from 2018. For images, and more go to www.WhoArtEdP...
30 min
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Fun Fact Friday- Blue
This is a part of my series of fun fact Friday mini episodes about different colors. This week you can learn a bit about the history of different pigments used to create blue in artworks. For a long time, blue pigment was more valuable than gold. Blue pi...
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Marcus Bromander
Marcus Bromander is one of the co-creators and co-designers of the extremely popular game, Among Us. For this episode, I spoke with Jeff Arndt, a fellow art teacher, about Bromander and his work. Although Among Us is an online game, it was actually insp...
30 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Green
Remember the voting in round 1 of the Arts Madness tournament will begin Monday, March 1. Visit www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com for more information.
This week's Fun Fact Friday mini episode is about the color green. Learn a little more about associations with t...
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Joe Mills
The first round of the Arts Madness 2021 tournament will begin March 1. Voters can select which is better in a series of head to head matchups as a field of 64 diverse artists gets narrowed down to 1 ultimate champion. Go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com to se...
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Fun Fact Friday - Yellow
Voting for the Arts Madness tournament will begin March 1. Right now, you can check out all 64 artists and enter your prediction to win at www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com
This week's fun fact Friday mini episode is all about the color yellow. The ancient Egypti...
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Duff Goldman
Announcement: This year I will once again be hosting an Arts Madness tournament inviting people to vote on a series of head to head matchups narrowing the field from 64 down to 1. The tournament will start March 1, but you can go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.c...
25 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Orange
I am continuing my fun fact series about colors. This episode is all about the color orange. I compiled a few fun facts about the color orange. For example, before the orange was brought to Europe in the 16th century, the color was simply referred to as ...
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Grant Wood
Grant Wood was the American regionalist painter who rose to prominence almost overnight with his 1930 painting, American Gothic. In this episode, I spoke with Mike Divelbiss about Wood, his biography and his iconic work.Grant Wood was born in rural Iowa...
38 min
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Fun Fact Friday - Red
Last week I began a series of mini episodes exploring color. For this week's episode, I share some interesting bits about the color red. The color red is associated with both love and anger. While many mistakenly believe red will anger a bull, people loo...
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Claude Monet
The Impressionist movement has been appealing to art lovers for about 150 years. While Claude Monet was not the sole inventor of the style, the movement was actually named after one of his paintings. Claude Monet was born in 1840. The 19th century brough...
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