Monthly Archives: August 2017
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/7~
This French painter, when asked what school he belonged to, replied, “None. But if you absolutely insist on categorising me, I am an intimist”.
This German painter and printmaker, known for his violent religious works and his foreboding landscapes, was one of the first Expressionists.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/07/august-7/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/6~
What artist originally completed a degree in radiochemistry, but left his job at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project and pursued art full-time due to his dismay about the threat of atomic weapons?
What British painter and printmaker was evacuated with his mother and sister to the USA during WWII, where he first saw work by Stuart Davis, Matisse, and Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/06/august-6/
August 6, 1945: Enola Gay drops 5-ton bomb over Hiroshima
Masao Ohki, Symphony No. 5 “Hiroshima”
Composed in 1953 (eight years after the city’s bombing, and coinciding with the end of the American occupation of Japan), its six inner movements were inspired by six paintings by Iri and Toshi Maruki (the score’s original title was The Hiroshima Panels ), framed by a Prelude and Elegy. FROM https://arkivmusic.com/
MARUKI GALLERY FOR THE HIROSHIMA PANELS
Paintings bring Japan’s hellish aftermath into vivid focus
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum WesSite~ http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/5~
Which early member of the American Abstract Artists group articulated her philosophical theorems not only through her art but also through her writing, lectures, teaching, and poetry?
Which Russian-born Constructivist artist, a pioneer of Kinetic Art, used materials such as glass, plastic, and metal and created a sense of spatial movement in his work?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/05/august-5/
Roberta Dodd Crawford: Born August 5, 1897
In the 1920s and 1930s, Bonham mezzo-soprano Roberta Dodd Crawford (1897-1954) shot across the concert world like a rare comet, blazing with talent and demonstrating the power of black performers to seriously engage American and European critics and audiences. In the end, through bad luck and poor circumstance, she flamed out, dying broke and forgotten by the world she had made richer by her incandescent presence.
She came from humble circumstances, spent long years training her remarkable voice, toured extensively in the U.S. and France, socialized and worked with fellow ex-patriots in Paris during the 1920s and early 1930s, married an American World War I hero and, later, an African prince; and suffered physically and mentally while under Nazi detention during World War II.
FROM
http://ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=51&num=81273
Texas State Historical Association~
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr69
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/4~
This artist blazed a spectacular but short-lived trail through Flanders during the second quarter of the 16th Century as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, designer, writer, publisher, traveler and entrepreneur.
This painter was one of the artists dubbed the Irascible 18 after she and 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists signed an open letter to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accusing the museum of hostility to “advanced art”.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/04/august-4/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/3~
This largely self-taught Hungarian-born painter and commercial artist gained a reputation as one of America’s finest children’s book illustrators during the 1950s and 60s.
This jewelry artist, educator and goldsmith also worked in automobile design, toy design, fashion design, illustration, experimental metal research, and product development.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/03/august-3/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/2~
Which painter created a number of works that used stylized, abstract forms at a remarkably early date — 1910 and 1911 — and is considered the first American artist to have created such purely nonrepresentational imagery?
Which painter — who exhibited in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich, December 1911 — was the only American artist associated with this group of early 20th Century European Modernists?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/02/august-2/
Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived in a digital age?
Worlds of each character emerge as unusual narratives—joyful, mournful, reflective and visionary—are punctuated with on-screen visual poetry, every shot meticulously composed. Captivating personalities blend with wood, metal and type as young printers strive to save this historic process in a film created for the designer, type nerd, historian and collector in us all.
via Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
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