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, 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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 641
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Mona Lisa Vanishes (encore)
In what many would consider a major upset last week, Leonardo da Vinci was knocked out of our Arts Madness Tournament. I love the stories surrounding Leonardo and his work, so I thought this would be…
00:35:34 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Arts Madness and a Fun Forgery Story
This week we are wrapping up Round 3 of Arts Madness 2024. The matches are very close. Last week, Emily Kame Kngwarreye beat Keith Haring by a single vote. This week, one of the most famous artists o…
00:09:48 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Margaret Shepherd | Learn American Calligraphy
This week I interviewed Margaret Shepherd, a calligraphy artist and author. She has written several books, but her latest is Learning American Calligraphy. As she explains in the interview, calligrap…
00:33:39 |
Mon 11 Mar 2024
The Rubik's Cube | Work of Art and an Art Medium
The Rubik's Cube is a fun puzzle toy, but some have begun looking at it as a medium to create pixelated masterpieces. Learn a little bit about Erno Rubik, his cube, and a young artist using it in a w…
00:10:27 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Artist Interview | Herb Williams
Herb Williams is an incredibly talented sculptor bringing crayons to a whole new dimension. I sat down to talk to Williams about his background, his artistic influences, and exactly how and why he us…
00:55:53 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
Quick Announcements & The Unbelievable Story of Han van Meegeren
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 floatin…
00:14:31 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Keith Haring | DJ Dog (encore)
Keith Haring is one of my absolute favorite artists because he was earnest and direct in his paintings. In his works, he would reduce complicated messages to clear and catchy slogans. He used bright …
00:40:59 |
Thu 29 Feb 2024
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec | At The Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was associated with the Moulin Rouge since it first opened in 1891. He was captivated by the unique spirit of the club where people of all walks of life would mingle and enj…
00:06:52 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Gustave Eiffel | The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was by far the largest structure built for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. Eiffel was an entrepreneur and he had two engineers working with him to plan the iron tower, but not everyo…
00:07:37 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory (encore)
Salvador Dali's most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory from 1931. The painting is surprisingly small just 9 ½ by 13 inches or slightly larger than the average sheet of paper. It is one of …
00:08:13 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Jean-Honore Fragonard | The Swing
Jean-Honore Fragonard’s painting, The Swing is one of those rare pieces that feels so immediately accessible it has begun to make the leap from the museum gallery wall to pop culture. Early in the im…
00:07:25 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Johannes Vermeer | Woman Holding a Balance
Vermeer created stunning works and he is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This painting, Woman Holding a Balance is a work intended to encourage temperance a…
00:10:00 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Kwakwaka’wakw artist | Eagle Transformation Mask
The transformation mask is a carved and painted sculpture, a status symbol, a costume element and a simple machine all at once. Pulling the strings on the mask allows the wearer to move parts that ef…
00:07:33 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Auguste Rodin | The Burghers of Calais
Today's mini-episode is about Auguste Rodin and his sculpture of The Burghers of Calais. The story behind the piece is an inspiring tale that defines courage. During the Hundred Years' War, the Engli…
00:08:23 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
On the peninsula at Rozel Point on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Smithson created his most famous monumental sculpture using over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth from the site. The spiral…
00:08:13 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could learn from. The Starry Night came about late in h…
00:08:32 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Jean-Antoine Houdon | George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon was one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors in the late 18th century. Shortly after the American Revolution, the governor of Virginia asked Thomas Jefferson to find a sculptor …
00:13:27 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Piet Mondrian | Composition with Red Blue and Yellow
Piet Mondrian is best known for painting primary colored squares and rectangles. For this episode, fellow art teacher, Jeff Arndt and I talked about the big ideas that led Mondrian to make such simpl…
00:42:11 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
Rachel Ruysch | Fruit and Insects
Rachel Ruysch was an incredibly skilled Dutch painter in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was renowned for her still lives. The objects in this work were carefully selected and the image i…
00:35:27 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas
Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre painting, Las Meninas is a sort of mix of both. We se…
00:09:38 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
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