Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/28~
What 18th century type designer‘s original letter stamps and matrices were donated to Cambridge University Press?
What 20th century painter’s method consisted of flinging and dripping paint onto an unstretched canvas laid on the floor?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/28/january-28/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/27~
William Blake’s visionary art was to have a profound effect on this key figure in 19th century Romantic landscape painting.
Considered one of the most talented Russian landscape painters of his generation, this artist founded his own painting society in 1909.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/27/january-27/
Barbara Kruger: Born January 26, 1945
Barbara Kruger ~ By Christopher Bollen ~ Published 02/28/13
Kruger’s spectacular corpus, spanning four decades, is often described as political—and it is. But just as much it creates these moments of internal identity confusion in which we don’t know if we are acting as victim, oppressor, or witness. Usually, we are all of the above.
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Kruger famously—and perhaps, at first, inadvertently—got her training as an artist the hard way: through a full-time job as a magazine designer at Condé Nast, starting out at Mademoiselle. And while some of those early layout techniques of bold graphics inform her work, a pulsating visual-linguistic triple-take keeps all of her pieces so alive that she’s become known for her own immediately identifiable, authoritative style—even if authority is what is being questioned in the authoritative typeface.
• http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html
• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/barbara-krugers-artwork-speaks-truth-to-power-137717540/?all
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