Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

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Disney's Folly May 22, 2023

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Walt Disney started making silly fun cartoon shorts, but he had a vision to elevate animation to the status of a feature film capturing the full scope of human emotions. Nobody believed he could do it. While there had been some feature length animations in other countries, they flopped. Disney pioneered new techniques to draw audiences into his fairy tale world. Learn how Disney's Folly became Disney's Triumph as he risked it all to create a work of art like nothing anyone had seen before.

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Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory (encore) May 19, 2023

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This is an encore presentation of my episode sharing some fun facts about Salvador Dali and a little bit about his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory. I am taking a break as I finish up the school year, and I am planning some new episodes to start coming into the feed in June.

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Alexander McQueen | Jellyfish Ensemble (encore) May 15, 2023

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This is an encore presentation of my first foray into the fashion world as Goldie Robinson helped me understand the brilliance of Alexander McQueen's 2010 collection. Specifically we looked at his Jellyfish Ensemble.

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Matt Groening | Homer Simpson (encore) May 12, 2023

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This is an encore presentation of my episode about Matt Groening and Homer Simpson. With Mother's Day coming up, I thought it would be a great time to rebroadcast the episode I recorded with my mother as we talked about a show I loved growing up and some of my questionable artistic choices that she always found a way to look at with a loving eye.

As the school year winds down I am re-broadcasting some older episodes through the summer, but as I have done on previous breaks, I will begin posting new solo episodes most weeks.

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Johannes Vermeer | The Concert (encore) May 08, 2023

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There are only 36 Vermeer paintings in the world today and one was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1991. The case remains unsolved to this day. In this episode, Emily Fiedler and I discussed the museum heist along with the Vermeer painting that has been missing for the last 30 years.

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Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper (encore) May 05, 2023

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As I know many high school students around the US are prepping for the AP Art History test, I thought it would be nice to put out an episode on one of the required works from the AP Art History curriculum.

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.

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Luisa Ignacia Roldán | Saint Ginés de la Jara May 01, 2023

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My guest this week was Paula Liz, founder of Anti-Racist Art Teachers. I invited Paula to come to talk to me about one of her favorite artists, and she picked Luisa Ignacia Roldán the Spanish Baroque-era sculptor. I had a great time learning about an artist I hadn't known much about prior to preparing for this episode.

In the episode, Paula referenced a wonderful video about this sculpture. You can find that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wb-T1F033Q

Find Paula Liz and her work at the following places:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulaliz.art/

Anti-Racist Art Teachers: https://www.antiracistartteachers.org/

Books:

https://quartoknows.com/books/9780760381328/anti-racist-art-activities-for-kids

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/creative-changemakers-paula-liz/1142950821

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The Taj Mahal (encore) Apr 28, 2023

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The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful man-made structures in the world. It is a UNESCO world heritage site considered to be one of the modern wonders of the world. The story behind its construction is equally beautiful as it is a tale of love and devotion between Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal who passed away shortly after giving birth to their fourteenth child.

The Taj Mahal has a massive dome stretching 240 feet covered in marble. The are four thin white marble minarets to mark the four corners. Of course without cranes, getting giant slabs of marble to such heights was no easy task. A ramp would be constructed to bring the pieces up, and to keep the incline manageable the ramp used for this construction had to be about 10 miles long.

Shah Jahan never really got over the loss of his wife. He remained in mourning for years before his position was usurped by his fourth son. He was imprisoned in a fort in Agra in 1658. He was forbidden to leave and spent the final 8 years of his life in the fort looking out the window at the Taj Mahal. When he died in 1666, Shah Jahan was reunited with his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal in the crypt beneath the Taj Mahal.

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Introducing: Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Apr 24, 2023

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My son has been watching me record podcasts for years and he has worked hard to produce his own. Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is a kids and family podcast dedicated to the study of everything awesome. Every week the show will focus on a different topic, but only the good stuff. It is filled with fun facts and trivia games the whole family can enjoy. Enjoy this sneak peak (the official launch for the show will be Tuesday, April 25) and please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Apple link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rainbow-puppy-science-lab/id1681654125

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/3RwY2oVW6yIHu7u0BGYm93?si=345e2c96ecd44aed

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Edmonia Lewis | The Death of Cleopatra (encore) Apr 21, 2023

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This is a#funfactfriday mini-episode about Edmonia Lewis and her sculpture The Death of Cleopatra. After it was exhibited in Philadelphia for the Centennial Exhibition, it was put into storage in Chicago. It would later sit in a saloon, mark the grave of a horse, and serve as an arts and crafts project for some local Boy Scouts before finally being professionally restored and displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of Art.

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