Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/16~
This Italian sculptor completed more than 150 bronze sculptures, primarily of wildlife, working from live animal models at zoos and abandoning a piece if he could not complete it in one sitting.
This American photographer and filmmaker embraced the ideas of modern painting and sculpture but applied it to his photography, making him a pioneer in 20th century avant-garde photography.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/16/october-16/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/15~
What romantic American painter remained institutionalized after a breakdown in 1891, during which time prices for work he’d previously sold skyrocketed while his family languished in poverty?
What American modernist painter and photographer was an impressive Colorist, one of the first painters to bring Cubism to America, and a pioneer of the Precisionist movement?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/15/october-15/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/14~
Which 15th century Florentine painter was a follower of scientific realists and naturalists in artwork and contributed to the fledgling art of landscape painting?
Which 17th century portrait painter was prolific and successful but, as a painter at Charles I’s court, had the bad luck to be overshadowed by Anthony van Dyck?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/14/october-14/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/13~
What Italian High Renaissance painter started a studio with Fra Bartolomeo, whose technique he copied so well that for years their works were sometimes confused?
What prominent 18th century Scottish portrait-painter eloped with one of his drawing pupils, whose baronet father never forgave her for marrying an artist?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/13/october-13/
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/12~
What artist studied painting, but chose to devote himself entirely to commercial photography and photojournalism until his untimely death in 1959 from a plane crash?
What American Abstract Expressionist painter was particularly well known for his large scale hard-edge paintings, although multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/12/october-12/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/11~
What American painter, loosely grouped with the Precisionists, tried his hand at a number of realistic and quasi-realistic movements before achieving his somehow abstract yet hyper-real style?
What American painter and draftsman said in the late 1950s, “It never occurred to me to join a group which advocated a particular philosophy of art. It would have been unnatural to me”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/11/october-11/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/10~
Living only thirty-six years, and plagued by frequent illness, this painter rose from an obscure background to achieve fame in Paris during the eighteenth century.
This Swiss sculptor and painter is best known for the tall, unnaturally thin figures which he sculpted in the late 1940s, a period followed by his rapid rise to fame.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/10/10/october-10/
John Lennon: Born October 9, 1940
He was born John Winston Lennon on October 9, 1940. Like the other three Beatles, Lennon grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool. His parents, Julia and Fred, separated before he was two (Lennon saw his father only twice in the next 20 years), and Lennon went to live with his mother’s sister Mimi Smith; when Lennon was 17 his mother was killed by a bus. He attended
Liverpool’s Dovedale Primary School and later the Quarry Bank High School, which supplied the name for his first band, a skiffle group called the Quarrymen, which he started in 1955.
FROM https://www.rollingstone.com/music/
John Lennon didn’t invent rock and roll, nor did he embody it as toweringly as figures like Elvis Presley and Little Richard, but he did more than anyone else to shake it up, move it forward and instill it with a conscience. As the most daring and outspoken of the four Beatles, he helped shape the agenda of the Sixties – socially and politically, no less than musically. As a solo artist, he made music
that alternately disturbed and soothed, provoked and sought community. As a human being, he served as an exemplar of honesty in his art and life.
FROM https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/john-lennon
John Lennon’s first Rolling Stone interview~ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-lennon-1970-jann-wenner-rolling-stone-interview-w481395
John Lennon’s final interview~ http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/hear-john-lennons-final-interview-taped-on-the-day-of-his-death.html
Transcript~ http://www.beatlesarchive.net/john-lennons-last-interview-december-8-1980.html
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