13 episodes

Explore Modern Art history including Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and other key Modernist art movements. Join artist and educator Klaire Lockheart as she examines famous artists and artwork through a 21st century intersectional feminist lens. Whether you’re an artist, student, or patron of the arts, you will hopefully learn something new about Modern Art.

History of Modern Art with Klaire Klaire Lockheart

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Explore Modern Art history including Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and other key Modernist art movements. Join artist and educator Klaire Lockheart as she examines famous artists and artwork through a 21st century intersectional feminist lens. Whether you’re an artist, student, or patron of the arts, you will hopefully learn something new about Modern Art.

    12 Postmodernism: Let’s Make the Art World a Better Place

    12 Postmodernism: Let’s Make the Art World a Better Place

    If you enjoy rebelling against established institutions, you’ll enjoy some aspects of Postmodern Art and the work it inspires today. Host Klaire Lockheart will briefly review Modernism before explaining the Postmodernism movement. Discover the legacy of the Guerrilla Girls, and learn about an epic feud over the blackest black paint.

    Artists and Artwork: Damien Hirst (Away from the Flock), Colleen Wolstenholme, Jeff Koons (String of Puppies), Art Rogers (Puppies), Chuck Close, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Al Diaz, Andy Warhol, Guerrilla Girls (Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?; When Racism And Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, How Much Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?), Anish Kapoor (Cloud Gate), and Stuart Semple

    Additional Topics: Modernism, SAMO©, Neo-Expressionism, Linda Nochlin, James Elkins (Stories of Art), the Bean, Vantablack, Culture Hustle, Black 3.0, and “Art Workers’ Coalition: Statement of Demands”

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    • 34 min
    11 Pop Art: Polkadots, Appropriation, and Kitsch

    11 Pop Art: Polkadots, Appropriation, and Kitsch

    When Pop Art hit its peak in the 1960s, artists embraced polkadots, popular culture, and consumerism. If you’re curious about how soup cans and comics became fine art, join Klaire Lockheart as she shares the details of this Modernist art movement.

    Artists and Artwork: Yayoi Kusama (Accumulation No. 1, Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, Infinity Mirror Room [Phalli’s Field], All the Eternal Love I have for the Pumpkins), Georgia O’Keeffe, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Andy Warhol (Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych, Cow Wallpaper), Lynn Goldsmith, Claes Oldenburg and Patty Mucha (Soft Calendar for the Month of August), Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg (Spoonbridge and Cherry), and Roy Lichtenstein (Look Mickey, Drowning Girl)

    Additional Topics: Appropriation, Intersectionality, Soft Sculpture, Jason Pargin (What the Hell Did I Just Read), Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg (“Avant-Garde and Kitsch”), Marilyn Monroe, Serigraphy, Comic Books, CMYK Printing, and Ben-Day Dots

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    • 35 min
    10 Abstract Expressionism: Modern Art Galleries are Full of Farts

    10 Abstract Expressionism: Modern Art Galleries are Full of Farts

    Abstract Expressionism is a complex art movement from the mid 19th century that requires a fair amount of cognitive dissonance to embrace. Whether you find this movement intriguing or confusing, listen as Klaire Lockheart describes this Modernist art style. She’ll also reveal why it makes her salty.

    Artists and Artwork: Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock (Number 17A, Mural), Mark Rothko (Untitled [Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red]), Hilma af Klint, Olga Rozanova (Non-Objective Composition. Color Painting), Barnett Newman, Alma Woodsey Thomas (Orion, A Fantastic Sunset), and Lee Krasner (The Seasons, The Eye of the First Circle)

    Additional Topics: Sublime, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Action Painters, and Color Field Painting

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    • 36 min
    09 Surrealism: Forget Dalí, Make Room for Magritte and Kahlo

    09 Surrealism: Forget Dalí, Make Room for Magritte and Kahlo

    Surrealists, such as Magritte, Cahun, and Dalí created dreamlike compositions, and they wanted to show the unseen. Explore the strange, weird, and upsetting aspects of Surrealism with Klaire Lockheart. Discover that Surrealism has more to offer than just melting clocks, such as Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits.

    Artists and Artwork: Salvador Dalí (Persistence of Memory), René Magritte (The Treachery of Images, Son of Man), Meret Oppenheim Object [Luncheon in Fur], Glove [for Parkett no. 4]), Claude Cahun (Self-Portrait [I am in Training Don’t Kiss Me]), Marcel Moore, Frida Kahlo (Frieda and Diego, Two Fridas), and Diego Rivera

    Additional Topics: André Breton (“Manifesto of Surrealism”), Sigmund Freud, World War II, Gender Roles, Photography, and Self-Portraiture

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    • 33 min
    08 Dadaism: Early 20th Century Nonsense and Chaos

    08 Dadaism: Early 20th Century Nonsense and Chaos

    Dadaists made photomontages, sculptures, and readymades that were weird and absurd. Artists such as Hannah Höch, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Marcel Duchamp pushed the boundaries of what could be considered art. If you’ve ever felt like the world doesn’t make sense, then you’ll want to tune in for Klaire Lockheart’s explanation of Dada.

    Art and Artwork: Marcel Duchamp (Fountain ), Jean/Hans Arp (Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance), Sophie Tauber-Arp (Dada Head), Hannah Höch (Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum), Raoul Housmann, Alfred Stieglitz, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (Enduring Ornament, God, Fountain), Morton Schamberg, and André Breton

    Additional Topics: Existential Crisis, World War I, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Cabaret Voltaire, Tristan Tzara, World War II, “The Painter,” American Society of Independent Artists, Beatrice Wood (“The Richard Mutt Case”), and Richard Mutt

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    • 30 min
    07 Suprematism: Not All Modern Art was Made in Paris

    07 Suprematism: Not All Modern Art was Made in Paris

    Suprematist art appears simple and non-controversial at first glance, but these geometric paintings by Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, and El Lissitzky were revolutionary. Listen as Klaire Lockheart examines Russian avant-garde artwork and art forgeries.

    Artists and Artwork: Mary Cassatt, Kazimir Malevich (The Black Square, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, Suprematist Composition), Olga Rozanova (Airplanes over the City, Non-Objective Composition. Color Painting,) and El Lissitzky (Prounenraum, Proun 12E)

    Additional Topics: Impressionism, Abstract Art, Art Education, 0, 10: The Last Futurist Exhibition, Theosophy, Alphonse Allais, Alexei Kruchenykh, Faktura, and Forged Art

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    • 32 min

Customer Reviews

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50 Ratings

50 Ratings

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History of Modern Art

I found this podcast told with a feminist twist and focus as very educational and easy to listen to. I thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes and even went back to look at some of the painting that were mentioned. Thank you for researching and explaining modern art and its painters!

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Super informative and well done

Well-researched information laid out in a clear way and delivered with an engaging voice. Some shows like this can lose you pretty easily, but this one totally had me locked in for a long drive.

btabbess ,

Informative and annoying

Good information but the host projects her progressive modern worldview and values onto the past too much. It’s enough to point out the inequalities of society and the art world. We don’t need to be repeatedly beat over the head with the unfairness of the past (and present) we can draw conclusions on our own from a factual statement/ disclaimer.

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