Art History for All

There are lots of different types of bodies in the world, but artist Fernando Botero focuses on the rounder kind–in this episode, Allyson tells you about Botero’s 1998 painting L’Odalisque, and talks about how it relates to body image and ideas of the “other.”

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

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Additional Music Credit:

Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Cool Vibes” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Allyson discusses Filipina artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s Girls with Baskets (1966), and how colonialism, class, and global politics affect even the most sentimental of art.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

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Additional Music Credit:

Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Infados” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Allyson discusses Myra Albert Wiggins’s The Lacemaker (1899, Portland Museum of Art), workin’ hard for the money, and types of labor that we might not see as labor. This one’s for you, needleworkers!

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

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Additional Music Credits:

“Serenity” by Jason Shaw, Audionautix.com (https://audionautix.com/Music/Serenity.mp3)
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Breaktime” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
“Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Esther Mahlangu’s Untitled, 2008 has simple geometry, but a complex context–Allyson talks about its connections to commerce, soccer, and… BMWs? 

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:
“The Complex,” “Enchanted Journey,” and “Babylon,” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

It’s a mind-bending episode as Allyson guides you through Roberto Matta’s surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its connections to physics and psychology.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:

“Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“Thunderbird” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Allyson guides you through the eleventh-century Chinese handscroll painting Summer Mountains, (北宋 傳屈鼎 夏山圖 卷) by little-known painter Qu Ding (屈鼎).

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:

“Dreams Become Real” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“Perspectives” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Allyson teaches you all about québécoise painter and stained glass artist Marcelle Ferron, whose windows at the Champ-de-Mars Métro station in Montréal are a unique example of public art.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Additional Music Credits:

“Let That Sink In” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. 

“You’re Enough (version a)” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. 

In this episode, Allyson goes down under and discusses the life of Albert Namatjira, his watercolor painting Catherine Creek, Northern Territory (circa 1950), and the situation of Aboriginal Australians in the early to mid-twentieth century.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Additional Music Credits:

All background music for this episode was composed by Bruce Healey.

Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get into the shipwreck on which it was based as well as how it’s used today in pop cultural milestones like Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APES**T” video.

You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Additional Music Credits:

“Betrayal” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Caught in the Beat” by Broke for Free (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Hagia Sophia has had many lives over the centuries: from church, to mosque, to secular museum, it’s always taken center stage in its city, whether you call it Istanbul or Constantinople. This episode explores its history, from the violent to the serene, and how the building remains a site of change and shifts in power.

You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category.

© 2018 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2018 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall 

Additional music credits:

“Between Worlds (Instrumental)” by Aussens@iter via ccmixter.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

“Rite of Passage” by Kevin MacLeod via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

“Photo theme: Window like” by Antony Raijekov via ccmixter.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic License.

“Virtutes Vocis” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.