Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/10~
Which American artist sketched and painted more than 1200 portraits of Native Americans from 125 tribes and is believed to be the only person to paint Geronimo from life?
Which American sculptor was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, with highly textured surfaces, improvisational gesture, and broad pictorial interpretation?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/10/august-10/
August 9, 1945: “Fat Man” is dropped over Nagasaki
In pictures: Nagasaki bombing~ http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-33769566
What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/09/what-nagasaki-looked-like-before-and-after-the-bomb/?tid=pm_world_pop_b
Nagasaki Official Visitor Guide: Peace Park~ http://visit-nagasaki.com/spots/detail/209
The Art of Peace, Nagasaki~ http://nuclearfutures.org/the-art-of-peace-nagasaki/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/9~
Which artist attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867 and designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon garden in Brussels?
Which artist was best known for “Alamo” (“the Cube”), originally part of a temporary installation in 1967 in the East Village which became permanent after residents in the Astor Place area petitioned the city?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/09/august-9/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/8~
The only painter to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey, this artist established himself as court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I, who made him a baronet in 1715.
This artist worked as a painter and engraver then turned to sculpture, first in wood but later in iron, exhibiting as a sculptor at the 1960 Venice Biennale, then returning to painting in 1967.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/08/august-8/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/7~
This French painter, when asked what school he belonged to, replied, “None. But if you absolutely insist on categorising me, I am an intimist”.
This German painter and printmaker, known for his violent religious works and his foreboding landscapes, was one of the first Expressionists.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/07/august-7/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/6~
What artist originally completed a degree in radiochemistry, but left his job at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project and pursued art full-time due to his dismay about the threat of atomic weapons?
What British painter and printmaker was evacuated with his mother and sister to the USA during WWII, where he first saw work by Stuart Davis, Matisse, and Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/06/august-6/
August 6, 1945: Enola Gay drops 5-ton bomb over Hiroshima
Masao Ohki, Symphony No. 5 “Hiroshima”
Composed in 1953 (eight years after the city’s bombing, and coinciding with the end of the American occupation of Japan), its six inner movements were inspired by six paintings by Iri and Toshi Maruki (the score’s original title was The Hiroshima Panels ), framed by a Prelude and Elegy. FROM https://arkivmusic.com/
MARUKI GALLERY FOR THE HIROSHIMA PANELS
Paintings bring Japan’s hellish aftermath into vivid focus
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum WesSite~ http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/5~
Which early member of the American Abstract Artists group articulated her philosophical theorems not only through her art but also through her writing, lectures, teaching, and poetry?
Which Russian-born Constructivist artist, a pioneer of Kinetic Art, used materials such as glass, plastic, and metal and created a sense of spatial movement in his work?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/05/august-5/
Roberta Dodd Crawford: Born August 5, 1897
In the 1920s and 1930s, Bonham mezzo-soprano Roberta Dodd Crawford (1897-1954) shot across the concert world like a rare comet, blazing with talent and demonstrating the power of black performers to seriously engage American and European critics and audiences. In the end, through bad luck and poor circumstance, she flamed out, dying broke and forgotten by the world she had made richer by her incandescent presence.
She came from humble circumstances, spent long years training her remarkable voice, toured extensively in the U.S. and France, socialized and worked with fellow ex-patriots in Paris during the 1920s and early 1930s, married an American World War I hero and, later, an African prince; and suffered physically and mentally while under Nazi detention during World War II.
FROM
http://ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=51&num=81273
Texas State Historical Association~
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr69
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