Art Smart

This week's episode is about block printing. For the history segment, I talked a bit about Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese woodblock printer in the 19th century, and I interviewed Speedball Art Products to learn about modern materials and methods. To learn more about Speedball, check out their website: https://www.speedballart.com/ Fill out the Airwave Media Network survey to give me feedback and get a chance to win a $500 gift card: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I share a little bit of the history of how film developed with early pioneers of motion pictures. For my interview, I spoke with Stefanie Hubbard, an independent film producer and owner of Pure Magic Pictures. Check out Pure Magic Pictures: IG: @puremagicpictures www.skyehoshi.com www.puremagicpictures.com In this episode, I referenced an episode of my other show Who ARTed. Listen to that episode about Louis Daguerre and The World's First Photobomb Fill out the Airwave Media Network survey to give me feedback and get a chance to win a $500 gift card: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Warhol famously said that he wanted to be like a machine producing artworks in his factory studio. The irony is of course he played with colors and exposures, leaning in to the imperfections of an over exposed image or printing without perfectly aligning his screens. He put a human touch into the mechanical process elevating pop culture subjects to the realm of fine art. In this episode, I spoke with Melissa Sorenson from Speedball Art Materials to learn how screen printing works. She shared some insights into how the materials are produced and how we can make the most of them in our studios. To learn more about Speedball, check out their website: https://www.speedballart.com/ Fill out the Airwave Media Network survey to give me feedback and get a chance to win a $500 gift card: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Markers were one of my favorite media growing up. I loved the immediacy of being able to draw with markers and create bright, bold colors. When I got a little older, I became frustrated with the limitations as the colors always seemed flat. Now as an adult I have found that markers are surprisingly versatile. In this episode, I talked about the artist, Tom Deslongchamp and his incredible marker drawings. You can see a video of him explaining and demonstrating his technique on his website https://www.tomdeslongchamp.com/about Tom also recently came out with a book of his drawings. https://www.tomdeslongchamp.com/shop/nowheretonowbook For this episode, my guest was Rita Gibson from Prang art materials explaining how markers are made and sharing some tips. Check out Prang on their website https://www.prang.com Fill out the Airwave Media Network survey to give me feedback and get a chance to win a $500 gift card: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the last episode we learned about clay and this week, I found out about glazes. Learn a bit about different kinds of glazes, what they are made of and how to make the most of them. For this episode, I spoke with Kathy Skaggs from Amaco Clay to learn more about glazes. You can find incredible educational resources including tips and tricks for working with clay at Amaco's website. Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. You can help me and get a chance to win a $500 gift card by filling out the network survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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 this episode, I explored the most commonly used and probably least thought about art material, the pencil. Have you ever wondered why we call the core of a pencil lead even though it is graphite? Have you ever wondered how they get that graphite rod into the middle of a pencil, or what those letters and numbers on the pencil mean? I talked to Becky Trudeau from Dixon Ticonderoga to learn all about it. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

Season 1 of Art Smart focused on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. Season 2 covered a variety of different art movements. Please let me know what you would like me to focus on for Season 3 which will be coming into your feed starting in January. Go to www.ArtSmartPodcast.com/vote to tell me what you want me to cover. Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

Matisse and Derain showed their work at the Salon de Automne in 1905, and at that salon, a critic Louis Vauxcelles was walking around looking at all the works when he saw a renaissance sculpture surrounded by the modern works of Matisse, Derain and their friends. Vaucelles was heard to remark “Donatello au milieu de fauves” meaning “Donatello among the wild beasts” Like the Impressionists, the fauvists took the term a critic used to insult their work and transformed it’s meaning. They were considered to be wild because of their bold use of color. The fauvist style is a sort of extension of the post-impressionist movement further flattening the images, making things more abstract with bolder colors and more expressive, painterly styling. If you want to learn more about Matisse, check out Who ARTEd Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

Art is as old as humanity. I have often said that art is what defines us as human. It is why and how we got out of the trees. The ability to express ourselves creatively is what allows humans to come together, to understand each other, to envision a better future. While prehistoric art predates recorded history and therefore we have no artist’s statements giving us certainty into the intentions behind these works, we do see clues in the designs, the materials used by the aritsts, and the placement of the pieces. My 5 favorite prehistoric pieces (links to episodes of Who ARTed when applicable): The world's oldest artwork - handprint fossils The Apollo 11 Stones The Running Horned Woman Stonehenge The Lascaux Cave Paintings Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

Art Nouveau was a style that rose to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I would say the heyday for art nouveau was from around 1890 to 1910, but of course, there is not a specific start and end date for any art movement. People can’t even agree on when or where the term first appeared. Some say it was in an art magazine in Belgium in the 1880s, while others say the origin of the name came about in Paris when the collector Sigfried Bing named his gallery, La Maison de’l Art Nouveau which means, the house of the new art. Art Nouveau was a deliberate attempt to create a new art style. Illustrators, jewelers, architects and interior designers wanted something fresh that would stand apart from the historic pieces that had been dominant in the European art world for most of the previous century. I would say another big factor was the industrial revolution. As hard-edged steel and glass forms sprung up, the art nouveau movement gave people soft, organic flowing lines. It was a breath of fresh air, creating a new style by looking at the oldest inspiration of all nature as a counterbalancing force to modern industrial design. Here are links to episodes of Who ARTed where you can learn more about a few of the artists referenced: Alfonse Mucha Louis Sullivan Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The term Ukiyo-e means images from the floating world. The word Ukiyo initially referred to the Buddhist idea that life and the material world were ephemeral. It seems rather ironic that the term referring to the Buddhist philosophy of not becoming overly attached to the material world would then be used in this art that is very much about the material world. The Ukiyo-e images of the floating world were celebrations of the joys of life for these newly wealthy people. Here are the artists and images I recommend looking at to better understand Ukiyo-e. Hokusai - The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa Toyoharu - Perspective Pictures of Places in Japan Harunobu - Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow Hiroshige - Bamboo Yards Kyobashi Bridge Hokusai - Peonies and Canary Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

Time Magazine coined the term Op Art in 1964. The article was about a show called Optical Paintings by the artist, Julian Stanczak. Of course, the term Op Art is used to refer to abstract, non-objective art that creates optical illusions. Commonly the illusions might be a suggestion of movement, vibrant effects of contrasting colors, hidden images, after images or creating an appearance a surface bubbling out, going deeper into space or warping in some other manner. Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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

This episode gives a quick overview of the Pop Art movement. Learn the ideas behind it and a few great examples of Pop Art. If you are interested in learning more, check out the episodes of Who ARTed linked in the show notes or on the website www.ArtSmartPodcast.com My Pop Art collection includes: Roy Lichtenstein | Look, Mickey Andy Warhol | Grevy's Zebra Keith Haring | Best Buddies KAWS | The KAWS Album Burton Morris | Nightstand Portrait of Andy Warhol Art Smart is an Airwave Media Podcast. Connect with me: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok Support the show: Merch from TeePublic | Make a Donation As always you can find images of the work being discussed at www.ArtSmartPodcast.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