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
George Lucas | Star Wars
George Lucas is responsible for some of the most popular films of all time. Early in his career, he began working on a script for a science fiction story following the hero's journey as outlined by t…
00:35:38 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Arts Madness Round 1
Every year in the US, 64 college basketball teams compete in a single elimination tournament known as March Madness. For years, I have created a similar bracketed tournament having my students vote f…
00:03:32 |
Sun 26 Feb 2023
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
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…
00:07:12 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Alexander Calder | Streetcar (encore)
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 episode is Streetcar from 1951…
00:32:15 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Phyllida Barlow - Untitled: upturnedhouse2, 2012 (encore)
This episode is about Phyllida Barlow. I spoke with Greg Daniels, an art teacher out of the UK who runs www.theartteacher.net It was a pleasure talking to him and learning about a unique contemporary…
00:30:41 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Andy Warhol
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 li…
00:08:05 |
Thu 23 Feb 2023
Henri Matisse
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 Pari…
00:11:30 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Grant Wood
Grant Wood was one of the most prominent painters of the Regionalist movement. He became a star of the art world pretty much overnight when his painting, American Gothic won an award then was purchas…
00:09:33 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto has developed some of the most popular games of all time including Mario which is the most successful game franchise ever. Mario has actually been in 250 videogames and The Super Mar…
00:10:11 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte's painting, Son of Man, is among the most famous images of the Surrealist Movement. It is one of the few artworks that transcends the museum and has become a part of pop culture. Actual…
00:11:14 |
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Martha Graham (encore)
Martha Graham was a pioneer of modern dance. She was 17 years old when she saw her first dance performance by Ruth St. Denis. A few years later she began studying at Denishawn School of Dancing and R…
00:43:03 |
Sat 18 Feb 2023
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg came on the scene in the 1940s and made a name for himself with the idea of the combine. He not only blurred the lines, he eliminated the distinctions between media as he combined…
00:10:46 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was an incredible artist. He was not always respected as an illustrator, but his nostalgic images of small town America were incredibly popular as they graced the covers of the Saturd…
00:07:27 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Alma Thomas
Alma Thomas was an amazing African American painter known for her abstract paintings with bold brush strokes that take on a mosaic quality.
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00:08:09 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was a conceptual artist who became well known in the 1980s and 90s for his works that broke down the barrier between artist and audience. Many of his works invited the audience …
00:08:38 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
The Apollo 11 Stones
The Apollo 11 Stones were not from the moon and really had nothing to do with the NASA mission, but they happened to be discovered as news of the moon landing came over the short-wave radio. Still th…
00:05:45 |
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Arthur Boyd
Arthur Boyd drew a lot of inspiration from religion, mythology and his own personal experiences. In the painting of Nebuchadnezzar on Fire Falling Over a Waterfall, he draws parallels between the bib…
00:09:14 |
Sun 12 Feb 2023
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby created some of the biggest names in the golden age of comics including: Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, Black Panther, The Incredible Hulk. He basically populated the Marvel Universe…
00:09:53 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson decided to make monumental sculptures using perhaps the world’s oldest material, the earth itself, but he used modern tools to shape it in a way and on a scale rarely seen. Spiral Jet…
00:06:53 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave Off of 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 start…
00:11:05 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
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