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Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery
Season 9
Maria Martinez belonged to the Tewa-speaking Pueblo people, known for their rich artistic heritage. Pottery-making was deeply rooted in Puebloan cult…
1 year, 11 months ago
Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay
Season 9
The Bay was painted in 1963 as Frankenthaler had refined her soak and stain process. While Mountains and Sea was made with diluted oil paints, The Ba…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thomas Jefferson | Monticello
Season 9
Thomas Jefferson may be a surprising person to find in an art history podcast, but the writer of the Declaration of Independence, third president of …
1 year, 11 months ago
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Horn Players
Season 9
Jean-Michel Basquiat has created some of the most highly valued American paintings ever to go on auction. Basquiat sought to remake art history in hi…
1 year, 11 months ago
JMW Turner | The Slave Ship
Season 9
Turner's painting of The Slave Ship from 1840 was originally titled "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying" and the event that inspired this …
1 year, 11 months ago
Raphael | The School of Athens
Season 9
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 arch…
1 year, 11 months ago
Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (mini)
Season 9
Michelangelo was considered to be one of the greatest examples of a Renaissance man. He is also one of the worst examples of personal hygiene. Learn …
1 year, 11 months ago
Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper
Season 9
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
Donatello | David
Season 9
Donatello’s statue of David, just like the story, seems straightforward and simple at first glance, but with great art, there is always more than mee…
1 year, 11 months ago
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation
Season 9
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creatio…
1 year, 11 months ago