Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

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 Jetty is as the name would suggest, a spiral. Part of what makes it special is the enormousness of it. 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 forms a path out onto the lake. It is intended to be not only witnessed, but experienced. Walking the spiral would be an almost meditative act similar to circumambulating or walking around a hindu temple. The spiral allows people to walk out onto the lake. A small speck on a vast lake witnessing the entropy of nature as the water erodes the foundation. The gigantic piece built from thousands of tons of stone has been decaying from the moment it was built. It was a giant monument to nature demonstrating the concept of entropy. It was born out of a time of social upheaval and changing norms leaving in which people were rethinking the ways they related to both nature and the constructed environment which now that I’m saying it out loud could just as easily be a description of pretty much any time period as the only true constant is change.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Buy me a coffeeAs 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 Impressionist movement was named after one of Claude Monet's paintings. In this episode, we discussed a bit about Monet and his life as well as one of his most famous series of works, Water Lilies. Monet loved painting his garden and over his lifetime, he created about 250 paintings of Water Lilies.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me:Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show:Merch from TeePublic | Buy me a coffeeAs 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

One Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is not housed in a museum. It is in the Convent of Santa Maria in Milan Italy. It seems totally fitting for a depiction of the last supper was painted on the wall in the convent’s dining hall. Visitors today are often surprised by how enormous the work it. The People are life sized on this massive 15 by 29 foot painting. Another surprising fact is that while people flock to see Leonardo’s work on the wall of the convent, very little if any of what we see there today was actually painted by Leonardo.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic | Buy me a coffeeAs 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

This is sort of the finale for season 3. I will be taking a short break but will continue releasing episodes on my regular schedule. I will be running some encore presentations for a few weeks, but I will continue to release new mini-episodes so it won't be all re-runs. The Friday mini-episodes will largely focus on artworks from the AP Art History list as at this time of year a lot of students are working to prep for the test and I want to do my part to help provide them with resources to the extent that I can. After six weeks and thousands of votes cast, we have narrowed the field from 64 great artists to 1 ultimate Arts Madness champion. I read a few statements on why people chose this artist, followed by an encore presentation of the episode about this artist. Thank you all for participating in the tournament and I hope it helped you discover some new artists to inspire you. Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In America, a lot of high school students are studying for the AP Art History Exam to try to earn college credit. I am trying to make sure my podcast can be a helpful resource for learning about art history and in a lot of my fun fact mini episodes I cover works of art that are required for the test. This mini episode covers a bit about Rodin and the story behind his piece, The Burghers of Calais.If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating or review on your favorite podcast app to help others discover the show.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have the finals for our Arts Madness Tournament. Katsushika Hokusai is up against Yayoi Kusama. To make exploring art history a little more fun for my fellow art teachers and their students, I put together an Arts Madness Tournament so listeners can weigh in on their favorite works. The final round is between Katsushika Hokusai and Yayoi Kusama.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is about Arthur Boyd the Australian painter known for his use of symbols from mythology to express his philosophical views.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This #FunFactFriday mini-episode is about the Apollo 11 stones, artifacts that show how far back humanity goes and named after a mission showing there is no limit to how far humanity may go in the future.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are down to our final four artists in this year’s Arts Madness Tournament. This week I read a four of the statements issued by students around the US explaining why they picked these artists as their favorites to win the tournament.Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this week's episode, I was joined by Kelly Henrikson, art teacher at Park Junior High, to talk about Ivan Albright. Ivan Albright is considered to be a great macabre painter. He is known for his portraits and still lives that have a sense of rot showing the frailty of life. His style is considered magical realism. He meticulously rendered portraits that were unlike anything else in his day. In this episode, we discussed the painting he created for the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. The Picture of Dorian Gray is housed at The Art Institute of ChicagoWho ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast.As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.WhoARTedPodcast.comConnect with me: Website Twitter Instagram TiktokSupport the show: Merch from TeePublic Buy me a coffee Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices