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
Pablo Picasso | Guernica
Pablo Picasso was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and Guernica is possibly his greatest work. While I am not a fan of Picasso as a person, his significance as an artist is unde…
00:08:53 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Andy Warhol | Marilyn Diptych
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…
00:07:37 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave off 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 starting…
00:12:43 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was an artist, teacher and art theorist in the early 20th century. His work was very influential in the development of modern, abstract art. He was likely able to paint differently …
00:09:06 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Benin Bronzes | Equestrian Oba and Attendants
The Benin Bronzes, a collection of exquisite brass and bronze sculptures originating from the Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria), stand as a testament to the artistic brilliance, historical signi…
00:07:45 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Marcel Duchamp | Fountain
Marcel Duchamp liked to portray himself as a rebel and an outsider courting controversy. While he was bold and pushing boundaries, he also came from a family of artists and he served as an advisor to…
00:12:00 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Meret Oppenheim | Object (Luncheon in Fur)
In 1936, Meret Oppenheim sat down in a cafe with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Picasso took note of Oppenheim's bracelet and commented that anything could be wrapped in fur. Meret replied "even this t…
00:11:12 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Henri Matisse | Goldfish
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…
00:10:36 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Yayoi Kusama | Narcissus Garden
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular contemporary artists with her infinity rooms drawing massive crowds wherever they are installed. In the infinity rooms, the walls are covered in mirrors creati…
00:14:49 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Claude Monet | The Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet loved his garden and made about 250 paintings of water lilies. He and his Impressionist contemporaries were focused on color, light, and how our eyes perceive the world, but I would say …
00:08:35 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Edvard Munch | The Scream
As a young adult, Edvard Munch studied art. He was influenced early on by the Impressionists, but he really came into his own when he began using painting as a way of expressing his inner struggles. …
00:10:51 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Alfred Stieglitz | The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz is considered by many to be the father of modern photography. He looked at the camera as not simply a tool to document the world, but an artistic medium. His photograph The Steerage …
00:12:15 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Louis Daguerre | The Artist's Studio
Louis Daguerre was an early pioneer of photography. While he didn't invent the medium, he did come up with a method that was workable, and perhaps most importantly, he made his method open source, so…
00:07:56 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Paul Cezanne | Mont Sainte-Victoire
Cezanne is widely celebrated today, but he struggled early on. He was rejected by Beaux Arts multiple times. He went back home to work at the bank for a while but he felt compelled to pursue the arts…
00:08:04 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
Diego Rivera | Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park
Today Diego Rivera is less of a household name than his wife Frida Kahlo, but in the early 20th century, he was the more established artist. In Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park by …
00:10:19 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Frida Kahlo | The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo was a painter in the early 20th century associated with the Surrealist movement. While she had some moderate success as a painter during her lifetime, her fame grew in the decades after h…
00:12:26 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Olowe of Ise | Veranda Post
The bulk of Olowe’s carvings seem to have been both decorative and functional artworks for the Yoruba kings and prominent families. One of his celebrated works for example is the veranda post that si…
00:07:52 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Shiva Nataraja | Shiva the Lord of the Dance
In this depiction of Shiva we see the natural rhythms to everything in the cosmos. Birth and death, creation and destruction are symply phases all things will go through. In this bronze work from 11t…
00:07:06 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
The Longmen Caves
China's Longmen Caves or Longmen Grottos are a UNESCO world heritage site. Starting in the 5th century CE, artists chiseled away at the limestone carving out around 2300 caves and 110,000 statues. Be…
00:10:21 |
Mon 08 Jan 2024
Stonehenge
Stonehenge has captured the imagination of people for centuries. It is hard to categorize the massive stone work. Is it a feat of engineering, sculpture, architecture? Is it a work of deep spiritual …
00:09:06 |
Sun 07 Jan 2024
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