Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/9~

Which 18th century French sculptor’s designs of figure groups for the Sèvres Manufactory porcelain factory are better known than his large-scale sculptures?

Which American neoclassical artist is celebrated as the first female professional sculptor, credited with opening the field of sculpture to women?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/8~

This German artist, one of the leading exponents of Impressionism in Germany, combined his interest in music and drawing in a famous series of portraits of a celebrated Portuguese opera singer.

This American artist began her career in the 1960s as a painter but is best known for her reinterpretation of quilts as art combining painting, fabric, and stories of her life and the lives of others in the black community.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/7~

What experimental artist, known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles, was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation?

What Quebec painter and sculptor was the only Canadian artist involved with the seminal post-World War II École de Paris (School of Paris)?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/6~

This artist’s 1893 essay, Das Problem der Form (The Problem of Form), asserted that truth is revealed in form, with subject matter of relatively minor importance.

This Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer was one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/5~

Which 18th Century Italian painter, from a family of artists, is considered to be among the last practitioners — along with his brothers — of the classic Venetian school of painting?

Which English sculptor and designer, being not as well known as some of his contemporaries, has been described as “the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/4~

What French painter, one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France, portrayed the dignity of agricultural laborers?

What American artist’s paintings, illustrations, sculptures, and writing played a major role in creating our popular image of the West?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/2~

Which 18th century landscape painter and his brother, two of the many famous painters from the Dutch city of Dordrecht, were pupils of their father?

Which photographer studied painting in college but pursued photography instead, becoming best known for her portraits of VIPs and celebrities?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/1~

This photographer is known for her images of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury and for portraits of rock artists in the late 1960s, but she has also photographed landscapes and conceptual projects.

This Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, was a member of the second generation of “Dutch Italianate landscape” painters.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/30~

What American experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor was best known for his films, which combine painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, photographs, and other materials?

What photographer captured many of the defining images of the U.S. civil rights struggle, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her husband?

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