Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

Charuvi Agrawal made a name for herself with a stunning computer-animated film about Hanuman. In 2014, she grabbed more headlines as she created a record-setting 25-foot tall monumental work comprised of 26,000 bells. 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 (the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27 will get a $50 Amazon gift card) 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

Frida Kahlo was a painter in the early 20th century associated with the Surrealist movement. While she had some moderate success as a painter during her lifetime, her fame grew in the decades after her passing. Today she is among the most popular figures in art history. She is best known for her self-portraits that give viewers a sense of her pain but more importantly, her strength.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 (the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27 will get a $50 Amazon gift card) 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

When you think of bold and revolutionary modern artists from the 20th century, you probably don't think of a grandmother laying across her living room floor painting, but maybe you should. Janet Sobel was a Ukrainian American painter who was dripping paint across the canvas long before Jackson Pollock "invented" the technique. More episodes to explore:Art Smart: SurrealismArt Smart: Abstract ExpressionismAi WeiweiAlexander CalderNorman RockwellRoy LichtensteinGeorgia O'KeeffeArts 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 (the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27 will get a $50 Amazon gift card) 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

Alexander McQueen quickly rose to prominence in the 1990s with his dramatic looks that were impeccably tailored. He is one of 64 artists selected for this year's Arts Madness Tournament where listeners will decide which artist is better in a series of head to head matches until just one is left. Listen to the full episode to learn more:Alexander McQueen | Jellyfish EnsembleArts 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

Jim Davis is famous for creating Garfield. He was born and raised in Indiana. As a child he wanted to be a farmer like his father, but found that he was much better suited to indoor life. He found his love of drawing early in life and developed his talents first in school, then working in advertising and assisting in the Tumbleweeds comic. Davis's first comic, Gnorm Gnat, was a bit of a flop. People felt his jokes and illustrations were great, but bugs just made for an offputting subject. Davis took the setback in stride and began developing a new comic about a cartoonist named Jon. The Jon comic was later renamed Garfield, and it went on to be published in hundreds of papers read by hundreds of millions of people.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 (the teacher who gets the most shoutouts on this form by Feb 27 will get a $50 Amazon gift card) 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

While Raphael sadly passed away just in his 30s his work has lived on for hundreds of years. Learn a bit about the great Renaissance painter and architect as well as his most famous work, The School of Athens.Other episodes to check out: Art Smart: The Renaissance Michelangelo 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

Pablo Picasso was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and Guernica is possibly his greatest work. While I am not a fan of Picasso as a person, his significance as an artist is undeniable.More to check out: The Art of Education University's NOW Conference Pablo Picasso Art Thief? Art Smart: Cubism 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

In 1936, Meret Oppenheim sat down in a cafe with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Picasso took note of Oppenheim's bracelet and commented that anything could be wrapped in fur. Meret replied "even this tea cup" and thus found inspiration for one of the greatest Surrealist sculptures of all time. Other episodes for to explore: Meret Oppenheim | Object (full episode featuring Janet Taylor from The Art of Education University) Art Smart: Surrealism 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

MC Escher is known for his tessellations, transformations and impossible realities. In many ways he defies categorization. His work is surreal with unexpected connections, but also very geometric and academic. Unfortunately, Escher was not super popular in the fine art world. A lot of the high-brow art establishment didn’t really like his work. He didn’t have the dramatic flair that a lot of well-known artists did. He was quiet and methodical in his work. He was in an odd space where he wasn’t doing the epic sort of lyrical and expressive work that was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but then he didn’t really fit with the conceptual avante garde that came a bit later. He found an audience largely with fans of psychedelics and math. He is probably the only person to have received fan mail from both the mathematician, Roger Penrose, and the musician, Mick Jagger.Check out these episodes to learn more: MC Escher | Circle Limit III MC Escher | Portrait of GA Escher Art Smart: Surrealism Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory 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

Barbara Kruger is a contemporary artist well known for her use of text and images. She started off in the late 1960s and 70s creating work reclaiming "craft" as a part of the feminist movement using materials that had long been marginalized. After she went to teach at UC Berkley, she started to gravitate toward words. In the late 1970s, she self published a book juxtaposing text and images. She would put a photo on one page and write a small poem or phrase on the page next to it. Her work really started to take off in the 1980s as she created bold graphic works in black, white and red overlaying text on found images. Her work speaks to how labels can define who we are and who we aren't as well as confronting the viewer very directly. The next evolution of her work came in the 1990s as she shifted from creating loud images to immersive installations that were viewers could not escape these messages. The text and image were no longer just out there in the gallery space, the text and images were the space.Some related episodes: Barabara Kruger | Don't Be a Jerk (full episode with Jen Leban) Bisa Butler | The Safety Patrol Faith Ringgold | Dancing at the Louvre 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