Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~

This 18th century Venetian artist’s frescoes for the Ca’ Sagredo palace met with terrible critical reception, which may have led to his shift toward small genre paintings of everyday life.

This Cubist sculptor studied medicine at the University of Paris but gave up school for a career in art, previously an avocation, when rheumatic fever forced him to abandon his studies.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/4~

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This Italian Baroque artist created easel paintings and large decorations in Rome, Naples, Mantua, and Bologna for patrons including Pope Paul V and Italy’s top royalty.

This 20th Century artist would work for as long as it took to realize his vision, sculpting without looking at the clock and saying, “I’m in no hurry. It’ll take a year if need be.”

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/3~

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What Italian Baroque painter, together with his cousin and his older brother, was painting Europe’s most radical and innovative pictures during the 1580s?

What artist documented American life from the 1920s to the 1970s, earning a reputation as one of the country’s  most influential photographers?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/03/november-3/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/2~

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What 18th-century French artist is best known for his still lifes, a category which he helped to elevate to a new level of respect?

What French illustrator is best known to contemporary audiences for his illustration of Cosette from “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/31~

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What painter ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists but was much less well known in his own day than today, primarily because he produced just a small number of paintings?

What artist was one of the most important and controversial photographers of the 20th Century, creating highly erotic, bold, and provocative fashion and editorial photos?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/30~

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Which artist, born in Switzerland and seen as a child prodigy, went on to be one of the only two women founder-members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London?

Which artist, a British citizen who spent most of his life in France, was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/28~

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This 18th century Italian painter of views of Venice (and also England during a sojourn there) produced a vast number of scenes of Venice, some representing actual sites while others were imaginary.

This Irish-born British figurative painter, known for his emotionally charged imagery, was in the 1937 group exhibition “Young British Artists” but the response was so dispiriting that he destroyed his paintings.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/27~

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What painter created a series in the late 1940s called Little Images: grid-like structures filled with markings that look like symbols or letters, none larger than three feet?

What celebrated Pop artist gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find, and then go on to alter or improve it?

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