Monthly Archives: August 2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/31~

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This photographer dropped out during her senior year of high school, knowing she wanted to do something in the arts though she could not draw well; she found the answer in 1931 while assisting in the darkroom of a portrait photographer in the Bronx.

This artist started her career at age 46, when she enrolled in classes with the intent of making quilts for her daughters to take to college; she eventually graduated from traditional patterns to abstract designs and narratives of African American history and heritage.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/30~

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One of France’s most influential painters, this artist led a life of controversy for his support of the French Revolution, his friendship with Robespierre, and his approval of the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

This Dutch artist and writer, an important abstract painter of the early 20th century, was the founder and editor of the art journal De Stijl, which led to the formation of a new artistic collective with the same name.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/29~

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What 17th-Century Italian artist’s paintings consist primarily of devotional images of the Virgin and Holy Family in a 15th-Century Raphaelesque manner?

What French Neoclassical painter assumed guardianship of traditional Neoclassicism against the Romanticism represented by his nemesis Eugene Delacroix?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/28~

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Which English painter, illustrator, and designer, a founding member of William Morris’s decorative arts company, had a low-key career until he gained overnight fame with eight paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877?

Which children’s illustrator said that she was the reincarnation of a sea captain’s wife who lived in the 1800s, and that it was this earlier life she was depicting with her pastel watercolors and delicately penciled lines?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/27~

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This Dutch Golden Age artist, specializing in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes, often included an image of a red admiral butterfly (symbolizing life, death and resurrection) in various locations within her paintings.

This American artist, once described as combining “bad taste and good ideas”, worked in every conceivable medium — found objects, textile banners, assemblage, collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, music, video, and photography.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/26~

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What Mexican painter brainstormed with printmaker and publisher Luis Remba to create Mixografia, a bas-relief printing process that results in works that are mural-sized yet three-dimensional in texture?

What 20th Century African-American artist and art educator worked in both figural and abstract styles, with forms inspired by the dynamic compositions of African sculpture, painting, and textile design?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/25~

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After she entered her 80s this American artist, well known for her vivid Surrealist imagery, began to concentrate on writing: producing a novel, an autobiography, and poems that appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Yale Review and The Paris Review.

From 1935 to 1941, this renowned cartoonist worked for Walt Disney as a story man and animator, with credits on Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia; his work also appeared in comic books for the company that became DC Comics, and for Dell’s Animal Comics.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/24~

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Which Renaissance painter, regarded as the first woman artist outside a court or convent, was commissioned to make not only portraits — the typical subject matter for women painters — but also religious and mythological paintings?

Which feminist artist — noted for her series such as Black Paintings and War Series — expressed her outrage and anger in both art and action, joining several activist groups including the Art Workers Coalition and Women Artists in Revolution?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/23~

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Which Scottish artist and sculptor died in 2008 at age 100, having been the last living link with the art nouveau period in Glasgow?

Which artist produced ground-breaking works in the 60s that established his reputation as one of America’s leading conceptualists?

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