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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/22~

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Which artist’s “House by the Railroad”, a gift of an anonymous donor in 1930, was the first oil painting to be acquired for the permanent collections of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art?

Which artist introduced moving parts into his work in 1931, then over the following decades created variations on this concept including “gongs”, “towers”, ”totems”, and “animobiles”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/21~

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The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.

This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/20~

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What Hungarian-born American painter, photographer, and educator was highly influenced by Constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and science into the arts?

What influential American feminist artist, author, and educator helped establish the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/19~

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What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?

What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?

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Max Fleischer: Born July 19, 1883

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In 1900 Max began to work as an errand boy at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. By 1904 he was a staff artist.MF2 In 1905 he married his childhood sweetheart, Essie Gold; they had two children. After he left the Eagle, Max briefly did artwork for two companies and then became art editor of Popular Science Monthly in 1914. There his childhood interest in mechanical matters was reignited.

In fact, it was a mechanical problem that pulled Max Fleischer into the field of animation. Early animation was frequently very choppy. Max theorized that if live-action footage were traced, frame by frame, fluid motion could be achieved. He enlisted the help of his brothers Dave and Joe, and the three developed the Rotoscope, a camera mounted under a piece of frosted glass with a crank to advance the film, so each frame could be traced.

MF1It took the brothers a week to build the Rotoscope, but it was a full year before they finished their first cartoon. Dave donned a clown suit, and Max and Joe filmed him. Then they traced the clown on the Rotoscope. Work on the cartoon was completed in 1916, and a patent for the Rotoscope came through a year later.
FROM http://anb.org/articles/20/20-01567.html

The Fleischers put popular, modern music at the center of many of their films, building entire cartoons around jazz legends such as Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Don Redman. These cartoons often featured the Fleischers’ signature MF3combination of live action and animation; in fact the earliest known footage of Cab Calloway in performance can be seen in the Fleischer classic Minnie the Moocher.

In 1929 the Studio made a major agreement with Paramount that would allow Paramount to distribute all Fleischer films. That same year the Studio changed its name to ‘Fleischer Studios.’
FROM http://www.fleischerstudios.com/history.html


OUT OF THE INKWELL~  https://youtu.be/KHDeCkDUNlk
Max Fleischer NEWS SKETCHES compilation~ https://archive.org/details/max_fleischer_news_sketches
Lambiek Comiclopedia~  https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/18~

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Which painter’s portrait of Louis XIV in his coronation costume set the image of what a state portrait should be: column and background landscape, glistening drapes, solemn pose, intense colors?

Which artist conveyed Futurism’s fascination for the energy of modern life with  his own personal style, approaching pure abstraction and rendering motion by showing simultaneous aspects of a moving object?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/17~

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This artist designed the cover for the Bauhaus 1919 manifesto written by Walter Gropius: an expressionist woodcut called “Cathedral”.

During 1929-38, this artist photographed New York’s buildings, documenting the old before it was torn down and recording new construction.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/16~

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This 18th century painter believed that portraiture could rise above its traditional status as mere ‘face-painting’ by making reference to the great art of the past.

Until he began to get official recognition in his mid-forties, this French artist lived on a small allowance from his parents, who fondly regarded him as a talentless amateur.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/15~

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What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?

What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/14~

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In 1897, this painter led a group of 19 avant-garde artists that broke away from Vienna’s conservative Künstlerhaus (the main exhibition venue for contemporary art) to form a new movement: the Vienna Secession.

This sculptor’s later works included a monumental figure commemorating the bombing of Rotterdam and a monument to van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise.

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