Fun Fact Friday - Art Was An Olympic Event
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 five categories of art. For more information and re...
18 Dec 20209min
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
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 contemporary Nigerian/American painter. Njiedeka ...
14 Dec 202034min
Fun Fact Friday - Michelangelo Stunk
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 the painting on the Sistine Chapel and the statue o...
11 Dec 20207min
Charuvi Agrawal
Charuvi Agrawal is a contemporary artist from India. She is tremendously talented as a painter, sculptor and animator. She is probably best known for two incredible works based on Hanuman. Shortly aft...
7 Dec 202034min
Fun Fact Friday - The Erased Masterpiece
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 piece is called ”Erased de Kooning Drawing” from 1953....
4 Dec 202010min
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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 collaborative graffiti project SAMO. In 1980, SAMO was dead a...
30 Nov 202033min
Fun Fact Friday -It Really Seems Like Leonardo da Vinci Had ADHD
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 in his lifetime and no credible diagnostician would p...
27 Nov 202010min
Pablo Picasso
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. The name Picasso has become synonymous with artis...
23 Nov 202033min
