Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages
Episodes
Bisa Butler
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I spoke with Dr. Rosemary Lee an artist far more serious and accomplished than myself to gain some insights into the work of Bisa Bu...
Fun Fact Friday- Blue
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a part of my series of fun fact Friday mini episodes about different colors. This week you can learn a bit about the history of different pigm...
Marcus Bromander
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Bromander is one of the co-creators and co-designers of the extremely popular game, Among Us. For this episode, I spoke with Jeff Arndt, a fell...
Fun Fact Friday - Green
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the voting in round 1 of the Arts Madness tournament will begin Monday, March 1. Visit www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com for more information. This ...
Joe Mills
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this week‘s episode I talked with Chuck Hoff about Joe Mills. Joe is an artist based out of Chicago and both Chuck and I were lucky enough to wo...
Fun Fact Friday - Yellow
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Voting for the Arts Madness tournament will begin March 1. Right now, you can check out all 64 artists and enter your prediction to win at www.WhoArtE...
Duff Goldman
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode I sat down with my good friend David Pittman to talk about the amazing work of Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes. Duff Goldman is a culi...
Fun Fact Friday - Orange
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I am continuing my fun fact series about colors. This episode is all about the color orange. I compiled a few fun facts about the color orange. For ex...
Grant Wood
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Wood was the American regionalist painter who rose to prominence almost overnight with his 1930 painting, American Gothic. In this episode, I sp...
Fun Fact Friday - Red
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last week I began a series of mini episodes exploring color. For this week's episode, I share some interesting bits about the color red. The color red...
Claude Monet
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Impressionist movement has been appealing to art lovers for about 150 years. While Claude Monet was not the sole inventor of the style, the moveme...
Fun Fact Friday - What is Color?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's mini episode, I wanted to take a little time to explain what color is and how we perceive color. This is going to be the first in a se...
Ernie Barnes
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not a lot of great painters were also professional football players. Ernie Barnes was an American artist who grew up in the South during the Jim Crowe...
Fun Fact Friday - The Curious Case of Nat Tate
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The art world is full of interesting characters. In so many ways, the artist‘s biography can be as important as their work. Nat Tate was an interest...
Homer Simpson
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I wanted to start 2021 with something fun, so I decided to do an episode about a classic episode of The Simpsons. In season 10 episode 19 titled Mom a...
Season 2 Recap (Part 2)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a second mini episode recapping the takeaways from the artists covered thus far in season 2. In this episode, I share my takeaways from the ep...
Season 2 Recap (Part 1)
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I will be taking a bit of a break. This week and next week will be the podcast equivalent of a clip show as I will rundown just the main takeaways I h...
Fun Fact Friday - Art Was An Olympic Event
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Few people know this, but Art used to be an Olympic event. Starting in the 1912 games, artists could win Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals in fiv...
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I talked to Janet Taylor, art teacher and writer for the Art of Education. She actually taught be about Njideka Akunyili Crosby, the...
Fun Fact Friday - Michelangelo Stunk
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michelangelo is one of the most celebrated artists in history. He is known for having created some of the finest masterpieces in the world including t...
Charuvi Agrawal
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charuvi Agrawal is a contemporary artist from India. She is tremendously talented as a painter, sculptor and animator. She is probably best known for ...
Fun Fact Friday - The Erased Masterpiece
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this week‘s fun fact friday, learn about how Robert Rauschenberg created a famous work of art simply by erasing another artist‘s drawing. The ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Michel Basquiat became a star of the art world in the 1980s. He grew up in New York and started making a name for himself through his collaborati...
Fun Fact Friday -It Really Seems Like Leonardo da Vinci Had ADHD
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To be accurate, this one is a little more of a ”Fun Speculation Friday” as we will never know for a fact whether he had ADHD. He was not diagnosed...
Pablo Picasso
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Picasso is arguable one of the most talented and influential artists of the 20th century. He is certainly one of the most famous and successful....
Fun Fact Friday - The World‘s First Photobomb
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The history of photography has some really interesting and surprising facts. For example, the camera is about 2000 years older than photography. The e...
Wassily Kandinsky
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist and art theorist. He is known as one of the early pioneers of abstract art. Learn a bit about Kandinsky‘s bac...
Fun Fact Friday - The Primary Colors: Way More Complicated Than You Thought
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this week‘s Fun Fact Friday, I wanted to share a little bit about the Primary Colors. In Art class, we are traditionally taught that all the col...
Phil Hansen
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For images and resources, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this week's episode I spoke with Kelly Beach about the contemporary American artist, Phil ...
Fun Fact Friday - Pablo Picasso: Art Thief
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more information and resources, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com Pablo Picasso is credited with numerous quotes including, "Good artists copy. Gr...
Barbara Kruger
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For images and more to explore, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this episode, we talked about the Barabara Kruger. She is known for her collages u...
Spooktacular Bonus - The Art of the Lego Hidden Side
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As always you can find more information and resources on my website WhoARTedPodcast.com I thought it would be fun to do a bonus episode this Halloween...
Fun Fact Friday - Killer Wallpaper
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more information and resources check my website www.WhoARTedPodcast.com This week's fun fact Friday episode focuses on Scheele's green which wa...
Alexander Calder
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As always you can find a picture of the work and more at www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this week's episode we learn a bit about Alexander Calder, the ...
Fun Fact Friday - The Lego House
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As always, you can find pictures and more information at www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For this week's fun fact friday, you can learn about everyone's fir...
Yayoi Kusama
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To see the work discussed in this episode, visit www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com Yayoi Kusama is among the most popular contemporary artists. In addition to ...
Fun Fact Friday - The Feud Between Stuart Semple and Anish Kapoor
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more information and resources you can visit www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com In this minisode, we learn about some of the petty behavior of "sophistic...
Burton Morris
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com to see the work being discussed. This week we talked about the American Pop Art painter, Burton Morris. His work has ga...
Fun Fact Friday - What‘s up with ROY G BIV?
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This season I thought it would be nice to do a series of minisodes on Fridays. The Fun Fact Friday series will consist of short episodes with little a...
Marcel Duchamp
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For pictures of the works being discussed, go to www.WhoArtEdPodcast.com For Season 2, I decided to start by taking a deep dive into Fountain from 1...
Jen Stark
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I met with my friend Jeff Arndt, the art teacher at Ranch View Elementary, and we decided to record a quick episode while we were setting up an art sh...
OK Go
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I thought it would be fun to do something a little different. We looked at the work of OK Go, specifically their video for The One M...
Bobbi Cyr
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I spoke with Mrs. Pradel about Bobbi Cyr, a local artist known for her paintings and prints featuring hand lettering. Click here to se...
Carl Larsson
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every episode explores a different artist/work first with a discussion of the context, then looking at one specific piece and finally we share our tak...
Diego Velazquez
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talked with Rita Woker about Diego Velazquez and his masterpiece, Las Meninas. It was a great privilege to learn from Woker's insig...
Mid Season Review - 10 Takeaways from the first 10 Episodes
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode shares the 10 bits of advice I would pass on based on what I have learned over the course of the first ten episodes. Click here to view t...
Frida Kahlo
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we discussed Frida Kahlo and her Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird from 1940. In each episode, we have 3 segments: I...
Leonardo da Vinci
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we discussed Leonardo da Vinci, the artist known to embody the Renaissance ideal of study and mastery of diverse topics. First we di...
Romare Bearden
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we focused on Romare Bearden and his collage The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pinturricchio and Benin). My guest was Hugh Boger, th...
Chuck Close
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I sat down to talk with Chuck Hoff, an amazing art teacher who has mentored me and and collaborated on numerous projects. We talked ...
Keith Haring
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we discussed the work and legacy of Keith Haring. He rose to prominence for his Pop Art in the 1980s, but even decades later his work...
Alphonse Mucha
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on Alphonse Mucha, the Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. We specifically are looking at the poster of the actress Sarah Bernhar...
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Yannima Pikarli, more commonly known as Tommy Watson, was an indigenous Australian painter known for his wonderful sense of color. In this episode we ...
Mukenga (African Mask)
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
African masks have a rich tradition dating back thousands of years. For this episode, we sat down to talk a bit about African masks in general and co...
Katsushika Hokusai
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the iconic woodcut print, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai. This piece was part of his series 36 Views of ...
Georges Seurat
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Georges Seurat is best known for his painting, Sunday on la Grande Jatte. In this episode, we discuss the pointillist masterpiece. Every episode featu...