Category Archives: Birthdays
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/16~
What Russian painter and designer followed her early Impressionist period in the early 1900s with a succession of styles including a near-abstract Rayonist style, Cubism, Futurism and other idioms?
What artist, closely associated with the development of Pop art in the early 1960s, frequently affixed everyday objects such as tools, rope, shoes, articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink to his canvases?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/16/june-16/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/15~
What Seventeenth Century painter explained that, to him, various subjects made different demands on an artist and required very different expressive means to properly fulfill them?
What artist–renowned for drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture–drew the famous 1976 New Yorker cover “View of the World from 9th Avenue”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/15/june-15/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/14~
What British author and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in the 1930s and 1940s, was once a salesman of advertising space for the Daily Telegraph?
What politically radical graphic artist of the 1930s went on to acclaim as an illustrator of dozens of children’s and nature books?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/14/june-14/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/13~
This Swiss-German painter and printmaker was one of the most prolific and skilled creator of woodcut illustrations in the 16th century.
He considered photography his hobby, but this French photographer and painter is known for his photos of automobile races, planes and Parisian models.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/13/june-13/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/12~
What Austrian Expressionist is known for his erotic paintings, anguished self-portraits, and a life marked by scandal, notoriety, & an early death by influenza three days after the death of his pregnant wife?
What Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer of 13 wars produced his best-known photograph while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/12/june-12/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/11~
What English Romantic painter, famous for his landscapes, wrote that painting “is with me but another word for feeling”?
What painter (along with David Hare, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko) founded the Subjects of the Artist School, a short-lived (1948–9) school aimed at promoting avant-garde art?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/11/june-11/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/10~
This pioneering figure in the history of modernism flouted the authority of the state by publicly refusing the award of the Legion of Honor, declaring his independence from any form of government.
This painter was one of the principal exponents of Fauvism, however during his lifetime he went on to adopt Cubism and eventually Classism.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/10/june-10/
Jackie Wilson: Born June 9, 1934
They called him “Mr. Excitement,” and indeed Jackie Wilson was a gifted singer of considerable range and a charismatic showman who commanded a stage like few before or since. Wilson possessed a natural tenor. He sang with the graceful control of Sam Cooke and moved with the frenzied dynamism of James Brown…A mainstay of the R&B and pop charts from 1958 to 1968, Wilson amassed two dozen Top Forty singles, all released on the Brunswick label.
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Wilson launched his solo career in November 1957 with the single “Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet).” The song was written by Berry Gordy, Jr., a struggling songwriter who had yet to found his Motown empire. Another Gordy composition, “Lonely Teardrops,” was Wilson’s breakthrough, topping the R&B chart and becoming a Top Ten hit on the pop side. More R&B chart-toppers followed in quick succession
FROM https://rockhall.com/inductees/jackie-wilson/bio/
Jackie Wilson Discography~ http://www.discogs.com/artist/69375-Jackie-Wilson
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