Category Archives: Birthdays
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/12~
What painter and sculptor settled in Paris in 1906 and rapidly established his own idiosyncratic style, with its easily recognizable elongated figures and heads, almond-shaped eyes, and simple, linear contours?
What realist artist, one of the most popular and also most lambasted in the history of American painting, created work which sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/12/july-12/
E. B. White: Born July 11, 1899
INTERVIEWER
You were also an artist. What did Thurber and the other New Yorker artists think of your drawings and New Yorker covers?
WHITE
I’m not an artist and never did any drawings for The New Yorker. I did turn in a cover and it was published. I can’t draw or paint, but I was sick in bed with tonsillitis or something, and I had nothing to occupy me, but I had a cover idea—of a sea horse wearing a nose bag. I borrowed my son’s watercolor set, copied a sea horse from a picture in Webster’s dictionary, and managed to produce a cover that was bought. It wasn’t much of a thing. I even loused up the whole business finally by printing the word “oats” on the nose bag, lest somebody fail to get the point. I suppose the original of that cover would be a collector’s item of a minor sort, since it is my only excursion into the world of art. But I don’t know where it is. I gave it to Jed Harris. What he did with it, knows God.
FROM http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4155/the-art-of-the-essay-no-1-e-b-white
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/11~
Although this artist’s paintings did much to popularize Cubism and broaden its influence just before WWI, he later abandoned the style and became one of France’s most influential advocates of traditional realism.
This early 20th century artist is best known for his multiple series of paintings exploring the Russian peasantry and their fraught relationship with a newly industrialized world.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/11/july-11/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/10~
What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?
What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/10/july-10/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/9~
What artist studied architecture briefly in Hanover and Stuttgart but in 1874, at about age twenty-one, became a student of painting at the Royal Academy in Munich?
What artist took up photography while very young but set it aside for a number of years to study botany, and later poetry, beginning to photograph seriously in 1937?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/09/june-9-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/8~
Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?
Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/08/july-8/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/7~
An important pioneer of postwar abstraction, this Belgian artist is best known for his paintings and sculptures primarily organized by vertical lines.
Born in 1947 in an East LA housing project, this artist was a high school senior when a friend gave him a photography textbook that had been left in a bathroom.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/07/july-7/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/6~
Which artist began his career modeling designs for Wedgwood, later becoming an illustrator and a prolific sculptor of funerary monuments and reliefs?
Which third-generation member of a family of artists once worked in the studio of his friend Andy Warhol, whose portrait he painted?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/06/july-6/
Jean Cocteau: Born July 5, 1889
The Misty Miss Christy 