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Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

By: Kyle Wood
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 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.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Art Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • TLDR Claude Monet | Water Lilies

    TLDR Claude Monet | Water Lilies
    Sep 8 2025
    As it is back to school season, I thought I would try making a series of episodes that are short and to the point to give students and anyone else interested a quick overview of the artist. Each of my TLDR episodes will give a very brief overview of the artist, 5 interesting things to know about them and a little insight into one of their major works. Claude Monet was a central figure in the Impressionist movement. His childhood in the coastal town of Le Havre shaped his lifelong fascination with light and water, leading him and his contemporaries to leave the studio and paint en plein air. This new approach, focused on capturing the fleeting sensory experience of a moment rather than a detailed representation, was initially mocked. The movement itself earned its name from a critic's dismissive review of Monet's painting, Impression, Sunrise. Delve deeper into the obsessive genius of the artist, from his custom-built floating studio on the Seine River to the world-famous garden he cultivated at his home in Giverny. This garden, and particularly its water lily pond, became the sole subject of his work for the last three decades of his life, resulting in approximately 250 oil paintings. Discover fascinating details about Monet's life, including his passion for gourmet food, his perfectionism that led him to destroy hundreds of his own canvases, and the remarkable story of how cataract surgery in his later years allowed him to perceive ultraviolet light, profoundly changing the colors in his final masterpieces. Check out my other podcasts Fun Facts Daily | Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • TLDR Gerhard Richter | Betty

    TLDR Gerhard Richter | Betty
    Sep 5 2025
    Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, is a towering figure in contemporary art, whose life and work were forged by the tumultuous history of 20th-century Germany. Growing up under the Nazi regime and later living in Communist East Germany, Richter's early artistic education was in the state-sanctioned style of socialist realism. In 1961, he escaped to West Germany, where his career began to flourish. Rejecting adherence to a single style, Richter has spent decades exploring the possibilities of painting. His vast and varied body of work includes blurred photorealistic paintings based on found and personal photographs, monumental abstract pieces created with a giant squeegee, somber historical paintings, and modern stained glass designs. Richter's artistic practice is marked by a systematic and conceptual approach. He meticulously numbers each of his works in a catalogue raisonné, emphasizing their place in an ongoing investigation of how images are made and understood. His iconic abstract paintings are often created by dragging a large squeegee across layers of wet paint, a technique that introduces an element of chance and removes the traditional artist's hand. Richter's work frequently delves into the complex nature of memory and history, using his own family photographs—including a haunting image of his "Uncle Rudi" in a Nazi uniform—as source material. This tension between the personal and the historical, the abstract and the figurative, is powerfully captured in major works like his enigmatic 1988 portrait of his daughter, "Betty," and his celebrated stained-glass window for the Cologne Cathedral. Check out my other podcasts Fun Facts Daily | Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    13 mins
  • TLDR Georges Braque | Violin and Palette

    TLDR Georges Braque | Violin and Palette
    Sep 1 2025
    Since it is back to school season, I thought I would make a series of episodes optimized for classrooms to give students a quick overview and a few interesting facts about an artist. I am labeling these episodes with TLDR and each of them will follow the same format. First, I will give a very quick bit of biographical information. Second I'll list 5 interesting facts about the artist. Finally I'll talk about one of the artist's works. This week I covered Georges Braque and his painting Violin and Palette from 1909. Georges Braque co-founded the groundbreaking art movement of Cubism. Discover his beginnings in a family of house painters, where he learned decorative techniques like creating faux woodgrain that would later influence his fine art. The summary traces his artistic journey from early Fauvist-inspired works to the pivotal moment he met Picasso. This led to one of art history's most famous collaborations, an intense period where Braque and Picasso deconstructed traditional perspective to invent Analytic Cubism, working so closely they compared themselves to the Wright brothers. Learn how Braque's service in World War I and a severe head injury profoundly changed him, leading him to develop a more personal, contemplative style focused on still lifes for the remainder of his celebrated career. Delve into the specific innovations that cemented Braque's legacy, including his 1912 invention of papier collé (pasted paper), a technique that evolved into collage and forever changed the definition of art. We also uncover the surprising origin of the term "Cubism," born from a critic's dismissive remark about Braque's paintings being made of "little cubes." The discussion highlights a key masterpiece, Violin and Palette (1909), a prime example of Analytic Cubism. The painting breaks down its subjects into fragmented, geometric planes with a muted color palette, inviting viewers to analyze form and perception from multiple viewpoints at once, challenging the conventions of Western art and paving the way for abstraction. Check out my other podcasts Fun Facts Daily | Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
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