Art Smart
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Block Printing
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is about block printing. For the history segment, I talked a bit about Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese woodblock printer in the 19t...
Photography
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is about photography. While numerous scientists were conducting experiments with light sensitive materials as early as the 18th ce...
Film and Video
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share a little bit of the history of how film developed with early pioneers of motion pictures. For my interview, I spoke with Stef...
Paper
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are all sorts of different papers out there from standard construction paper to fine art papers. Learn a little bit of history how paper was dev...
Screen Printing
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Warhol famously said that he wanted to be like a machine producing artworks in his factory studio. The irony is of course he played with colors a...
Crayons
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I got the story of Herb Williams, an incredible crayon artist. While most people look at crayons as a drawing tool, Williams uses cra...
Markers
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markers were one of my favorite media growing up. I loved the immediacy of being able to draw with markers and create bright, bold colors. When I got ...
Paint
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's episode, we are focusing on paints. Painting is one of the oldest artforms, and as I have said many times before, art is the most impo...
Glaze
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode we learned about clay and this week, I found out about glazes. Learn a bit about different kinds of glazes, what they are made of ...
Clay
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Clay was one of the first art materials humans learned to work with. It is one of the only art materials that has been in continuous use by cultures a...
Pencils
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I explored the most commonly used and probably least thought about art material, the pencil. Have you ever wondered why we call the c...
Announcing Season 3
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 of Art Smart will start next Feb. 1. For season 3, I am talking to the makers of media to learn stories behind different materials, how they ...
Looking Ahead to Season 3
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 1 of Art Smart focused on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Season 2 covered a variety of different art movements. Please let me kn...
Baroque
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Baroque era came after the Renaissance, while both eras often focused on biblical and historical subjects and both art forms prized highly polishe...
Fauvism
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matisse and Derain showed their work at the Salon de Automne in 1905, and at that salon, a critic Louis Vauxcelles was walking around looking at all t...
Abstract Expressionism
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When most people hear of the Abstract Expressionist movement, the first thought is of Jackson Pollock and his drip paintings. While he was probably th...
Prehistoric Art
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art is as old as humanity. I have often said that art is what defines us as human. It is why and how we got out of the trees. The ability to express o...
Cubism
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1907, Pablo Picasso and George Braque developed art from a new perspective. They began creating works that seemed fragmented and at times almost un...
Art Nouveau
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art Nouveau was a style that rose to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I would say the heyday for art nouveau was from around 1890...
Ancient Egyptian Art
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In two-dimensional art, the ancient Egyptians practiced an approach referred to as frontalism. Each feature was shown from the ideal, most recognizabl...
Ukiyo-e
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term Ukiyo-e means images from the floating world. The word Ukiyo initially referred to the Buddhist idea that life and the material world were ep...
The Renaissance
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The word Renaissance means re-birth. Around 1400 CE there was a tremendous shift in visual arts and other aspects of culture. One major influence in t...
Op Art
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Time Magazine coined the term Op Art in 1964. The article was about a show called Optical Paintings by the artist, Julian Stanczak. Of course, the ter...
Surrealism
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Breton, was a poet, but he had also studied medicine and psychiatry. He was well versed in Freud’s theories and in 1924, Breton wrote the surr...
Pop Art
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode gives a quick overview of the Pop Art movement. Learn the ideas behind it and a few great examples of Pop Art. If you are interested in l...
Impressionism & Post Impressionism
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode covers Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Learn a little bit about how technology led to the development of the style which revolution...
Post Modern Art
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Postmodernism is much more idiosyncratic (The Simpsons famously defined post modern as "weird for the sake of weird"). Postmodernism is rooted in sket...
Modern Art
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most art historians tend to say the shift to modernism started in the mid to late nineteenth century. This was an era of rethinking the old rules, bre...
BONUS: How to Understand Art
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Who ARTed, every week, I discuss a different work of art with a guest. I have been asked how I make sense of so many different artworks. Honestly, ...
Art Smart Trailer
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art Smart explains art in terms anyone can understand because art is for everyone. Each episode is just a few minutes long to give you the information...
The Principles of Design - Unity
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final episode in this series about the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. In this episode, I talked briefly about unity and making ...
The Principles of Design - Scale and Proportion
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the design principles of scale and proportion. You can find more helpful resources at www.artsmartpodcast.com Learn more about ...
The Principles of Design - Rhythm & Movement
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Much like scale and proportion, Rhythm and movement are related and I am going to lump them together for this episode. To start with, let’s define t...
The Principles of Design - Pattern
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of my series of episodes on the Principles of Design. For this episode, we focused a bit on repetition and pattern. Repeating an element ...
The Principles of Design - Emphasis
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emphasis is drawing attention and making something stand out. A lot of the elements and principles are somewhat related. Contrast can be a great means...
The Principles of Design - Contrast
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Contrast is one of the Principles of Design. Basically contrast is a difference between things. Artists will manipulate different elements to create c...
The Principles of Design - Balance
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a part of my series on the Principles of Design. Specifically, I focused on balance in this episode. Balance is the distribution of el...
The Principles of Design
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a quick overview of the Principles of Design. While not everyone is in agreement about what they are or even how many there are, I cov...
Elements of Art: Space
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art, Space. In addition to the depth created in the foreground, middle ground and background, artist think about ...
Elements of Art: Texture
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art, Texture. The texture of a piece is referring to its surface quality. Texture has to do with the sense of tou...
Elements of Art: Value
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art: Value. When we talk about value in the art context, we are not talking about quality in relation to price. V...
Elements of Art: Form
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art: Form. When shapes become three dimensional we call them forms. For example, a square is a shape but a cube i...
Elements of Art: Color
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art: Color. Learn about what color is, how we see it, and the different sets of primary colors. If you enjoy t...
Elements of Art: Shape
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the Element of Art: Shape. A shape occurs when a line bumps into itself. Learn about different types of shapes and their uses wi...
Elements of Art: Line
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about the Element of Art: Line. In Art, we consider a mark with length and direction to be a line. Lines can be long or short, the...
Art Smart Trailer
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visual art is all around us. I would go so far as to say that art is the most significant development in human history. Art is how and why we got out ...