Monthly Archives: August 2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/22~

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What artist’s most famous work, created in 1876 and originally titled Yankee Doodle, was so popular that he painted a number of different versions during the remainder of his life?

What sculptor is remembered for his achievements in the development of Cubism, transforming the formal characteristics of the style from painting into three-dimensional works?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/21~

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What painter, born in 1725, is fabled to have convinced his father of his natural aptitude for painting when the parent mistook his son’s pen-and-ink drawing of Saint James for an engraving?

What illustrator’s fame was established when the first volume of  The Yellow Book — an art and literature quarterly for which he served as art editor as well as contributing drawings and covers — appeared in April 1894?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/20~

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Perhaps the most famous father-son duo in the architectural world, these two designers left profound influences upon the cities where they did their work, were awarded AIA Gold Medals, and share the same day of birth.

Starting in 1957 this photographer’s husband-and-wife team traveled through Europe and North America taking photographs of industrial architecture and organizing them into series based on functional typologies.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/19~

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This house-painter and handyman was the center of a furor in 1927 when he became the first living self-taught artist to be recognized by the American art establishment, upon his acceptance to the Carnegie International exhibition.

One of the members of the Bloomsbury circle, this painter, sculptor, writer, and educator began to study pottery at the age of 25 and in 1935 went to Staffordshire to acquire the necessary technical knowledge.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/18~

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Which realist painter-printmaker had significant experience as an actress from 1909 into the 1920s, supplementing her income from acting with work as a muralist and illustrator as well as studying at the Chicago Art Institute?

Which artist is considered one of the most important painters and engravers in Puerto Rico, and has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/17~

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Which American sculptor was best known for her genre statuettes, contributing to the popularity of small bronze sculpture in America?

Which German-American photographer began her career at age twelve, assisting her father in the darkroom and working in the family studio?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/16~

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Which Italian painter and printmaker, born into a family of renowned artists, was also a popular and skilled teacher whose anatomical studies were later engraved and used for almost two centuries as academic teaching aids?

Which photographer had brief careers as model, stage actress, and silent film actress — appearing in three films, the last one in 1922 — before discovering her true talent as a photographer?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/15~

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This 18th Century Italian landscape painter, whose Arcadian scenes with picturesque peasants earned him an international reputation, often included a figure with a gourd bottle because zucco is Italian for “gourd”.

This contemporary sculptor has moved between laminated wood, stainless steel, corrugated iron, polycarbonate, marble, clay, vinyl, foam and leather; he explained in 2005, “Changing materials from one work to the next is a way of beginning again each time”.

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