Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Season 6 is covering the artists in this year's Arts Madness Tournament. I will be releasing 64 mini episodes in 64 days to give you a quick refresher on all the different artists and artworks in the tournament.By the 1960s Roy Lichtenstein was intrigued by the ideas of pop art and began dabbling in the style. Of course, if you want fresh new ideas, the best source is often the younger generation. Roy Lichtenstein was pushed by his young son. One day in 1961, the younger Lichtenstein taunted his father holding up his copy of the Disney book Donald Duck: Lost and Found. He pointed to an illustration and said, “I bet you can’t draw something as good as that?” In what can only be described as one of the greatest “so there’s” of all time Roy Lichtenstein made a direct copy of the illustration painting onto a canvas four feet tall and almost six feet wide. In doing so, he was not only successful in sticking it to his son, Roy Lichtenstein became a tremendous success in the art world.Arts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (I'll send a $50 Amazon gift card to the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27) Episodes to check out for further learning: Who ARTed - Roy Lichtenstein Art Smart - Pop Art Art Smart - Abstract Expressionism Who ARTed - Zaria Forman Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am releasing a mini episode every day in the run up to this year's Arts Madness Tournament to give you a quick refresher on all 64 artists/artworks. In this mini episode, I covered Christian Dior and The New Look from 1947.If you want to learn more, you can listen to the full episode I recorded back in October with Cassie StephensChristian Dior | BarArts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (I'll send a $50 Amazon gift card to the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27) Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 everyone was on board with the design. Audiences today may be surprised to hear that many Parisians thought the design was an eyesore and a blight on their beautiful city. The architect Stephen Sauvestre was commissioned to work on the design to make it less ugly. He drafted arches, glass-walled halls on every level, stonework around the base, and other ornamental details throughout the structure. Ultimately they stripped it down to a more utilitarian structure but they kept his idea of arches at the base. The form of the tower is largely determined by the engineers' calculations to cut down on wind resistance. The primary resistance came from writers and artists who criticized the tower throughout its construction. I think my favorite description came from Francois Coppee who called it “this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed.” Of course, this criticism faded as the world’s fair began and the tower was a huge hit. Over 2 million visitors came to marvel at it. While it did prove successful, the Eiffel tower was not intended to be a permanent fixture in the city. It was built to wow visitors in the fair and then to be torn down later. Eiffel only had a permit to have the structure stand for 20 years. The idea that the tower would be temporary provided an interesting opportunity for another sort of creative visionary. A truly remarkable con artist named Victor Lustig sold the tower for scrap… two times. While truly awful, his plan was quite clever. He posed as an official with the French government, but instead of claiming a high-status post, he pretend to be a mid-level, government official. He met with heads of various scrap iron companies telling them that because of the sensitive nature of such a high-profile project he was trying to meet with people discretely to get bids for the roughly 7,300 tons of iron used to build the tower. He then met privately with the least successful of the bidders and tried to appear empathetic. He told the guy, look I know you are up and coming, it’s hard to compete with these bigger companies, I feel for you. I’m just a mid-level government employee, I’m struggling too. Maybe we can help each other out. He actually got the guy to bribe him for the contract for all the scrap iron which did a few things. It made him seem a little more credible to the guy he was conning, but more importantly for Lustig, it made his mark less likely to report the crime as doing so would be not only embarrassing but also implicate him for bribery. Lustig got the money and then fled to Austria where he watched the papers to see if there were any reports of his crime. He was correct that the businessman would be too embarrassed to report the crime. In the ultimate show of hubris, Lustig returned to Paris and attempted to repeat the same scam. The second time around he was not so successful and ended up fleeing the country yet again. He went on to carry out numerous other audacious crimes before he was arrested and sent to the notorious Alcatraz prison in the United States.Arts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (I'll send a $50 Amazon gift card to the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27) Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 6 is all about the annual Arts Madness Tournament. I am releasing 64 mini episodes over 64 days to give you all a quick refresher on the diverse artists that will be up for consideration as we narrow the field down to just one ultimate Arts Madness Champion. To make it more fun, I will be using my ad revenue from the month of February to give out some prizes, so tell your friends about the show. The more listeners we get, the more prizes I can give out.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.Arts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (I'll send a $50 Amazon gift card to the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27) Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for this year's Arts Madness Tournament with a quick refresher on Salvador Dali. Season 6 of Who ARTed will have 64 mini episodes over the next 64 days to help you learn about all the artists/artworks listeners can vote on in this year's tournament.Arts Madness Tournament links: Check out the Brackets Tell me which artist you think will win this year's tournament Give a shoutout to your favorite teacher (I'll send a $50 Amazon gift card to the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27) 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 the most widely recognized and referenced images of the surrealist movement. For those who don’t know it by name, you will likely recognize the description of clocks melting in the desert. The melting of clocks much like the ambiguous figure in the middle of the composition reference a metamorphosis. Things are in a state of flux. Ants crawl all over the clocks like fruit left to rot on the ground. Dali referred to this work describing time as a soft cheese and yet with all of the absurdity, there are realistic elements drawn from the landscape of his home in Spain. There is an unsettling mix of the real and absurd which served as a device surrealist artists would use to call into question the rational world and whether things truly are as hard and fast as we might at first perceive them to be. The clocks melt because even time, like all things, is relative and malleable. Other episodes to check out: The full episode on Salvador Dali from season 3 Art Smart - Surrealism Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I want to talk to you about a few things. First off, as it is Friday, I want to share a fun fact about one of my absolute favorite artists, Keith Haring. One of his most famous and popular images, the three eyed smiley face came about by accident. In October 1981, Haring was invited to paint directly on the wall of the Annina Nosei Gallery. He was participating in a group show of Neo Expressionist Painting, because in the early days, that’s how Haring’s work was categorized. So he began painting. He started outlining the border and working his way in to fill out the composition. Keith was an artist who always brought a youthful, joyous spirit ot his work and he decided to pull some inspiration from his childhood. He thumbed through the pages of his old workbook and decided to paint following the instructions for a guided drawing of Mickey Mouse. He started with a large, grinning mouth then added one of Mickey’s oval eyes. Except he quickly realized he had rendered it off center. The eyes were too far apart, but he couldn’t exactly wipe it off the wall and start fresh. He compensated by adding a third eye to balance the composition in one of the most compelling proofs that Bob Ross was right in declaring "We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zaria Forman is known for her pastel drawings documenting the environment and climate change. The thing is, her work is so much bigger than that statement would lead you to believe. Her works are not your average pastel drawings. First off, they are massive. They are of a size that forces you to stop and take notice. The choice of soft pastels is fitting as these drawings, much like the environment, are beautiful but fragile.My guests were Kaitlyn and Corbie, hosts of the podcast, Those Art Teachers. You can find Those Art Teachers on your favorite podcast app, and they are active on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While many artists took inspiration from all types of flowers Vincent van Gogh became closely associated with one type in particular. While he did color studies using several types of flowers, he loved the sunflowers. Vincent wanted to be known as the painter of sunflowers. The man and the flower became so closely associated that at his funeral many friends paid their respects bringing sunflowers to the funeral. The sunflower is an interesting choice though. Most artists shied away from sunflowers. They preferred the soft and delicate petals of roses, carnations and lilies. The sunflower was coarse and unrefined. I would say that is likely what drew Van Gogh to the sunflower. He always had a soft spot for those on the fringes. Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Fuller first earned viral fame with a pie that appeared to have a human face in it. He has appeared on a few shows: Halloween Baking Championship (2018), Candy Land (2020) but the Netflix hit baking competition show, Is it Cake? really catapulted him to the next level. On this episode, I talked with Nathan Ragland, host of Post Modern Art Podcast about Fuller and his mindblowing, hyperrealistic cake.You can find Post Modern Art Podcast on all the major platforms. Here are links to find Nathan and his work: Website Discord MerchOf course, as we are talking about Andrew Fuller who is doing such amazing things all the time, you may want to check out his site https://www.sugarfreakshow.com/ which has links to his social media so you can follow him to see more.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Buddhist monks of Tibet who are known for their tradition of sand mandalas destroy the work after completing it. The word mandala comes from Sanskrit meaning “circle” but a mandala is not your average two-dimensional shape consisting of an outer boundary called the circumference made up of points all equidistant from a fixed center point. A mandala representation of the universe. While many people talk about Mandalas in reference to radial symmetry, mandala designs have spiritual significance beyond mere repetition. The act of creating a sand mandala is meditative. It requires monks to focus, to be calm, still and deliberate in their actions. And then, after completing the construction, they move on to a ritual deconstructing the piece. Even the deconstruction is a part of the artistic process with spiritual significance. Destroying the sand art is a reminder of the transitory nature of the universe.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Make a DonationAs always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.com and of course, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app. You might hear it read out on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices