Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/4~

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This artist blazed a spectacular but short-lived trail through Flanders during the second quarter of the 16th Century as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, designer, writer, publisher, traveler and entrepreneur.

This painter was one of the artists dubbed the Irascible 18 after she and 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists signed an open letter to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accusing the museum of hostility to “advanced art”.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/3~

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This largely self-taught Hungarian-born painter and commercial artist gained a reputation as one of America’s finest children’s book illustrators during the 1950s and 60s.

This jewelry artist, educator and goldsmith also worked in automobile design, toy design, fashion design, illustration, experimental metal research, and product development.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/2~

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Which painter created a number of works that used stylized, abstract forms at a remarkably early date — 1910 and 1911 — and is considered the first American artist to have created such purely nonrepresentational imagery?

Which painter — who exhibited in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich, December 1911 — was the only American artist associated with this group of early 20th Century European Modernists?

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Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

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The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has letterpress survived in a digital age?

Worlds of each character emerge as unusual narratives—joyful, mournful, reflective and visionary—are punctuated with on-screen visual poetry, every shot meticulously composed. Captivating personalities blend with wood, metal and type as young printers strive to save this historic process in a film created for the designer, type nerd, historian and collector in us all.

 

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/1~

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Which painter began his training in Venice but — due to persistent brushes with the law, including a murder charge — worked in a multitude of European cities such as Rome, Milan, Florence, and Vienna?

Which graphic designer’s first commercial work came when he was 13, creating hand-drawn and lettered posters for the local Knottingley Cricket Club and earning sixpence a week for six posters?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/31~

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Which Italian high-Baroque sculptor was active in Rome and in his latter years controlled a large studio, becoming one of the major rivals of Bernini?

Which French painter and sculptor coined the term art brut (“raw art”, aka “outsider art”) for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/30~

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What Italian painter, architect, and writer is best known today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, which was first published in 1550?

What British sculptor turned down a knighthood in 1951 because he felt “such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists whose work has aims similar to mine”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/29~

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What American painter — best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and portraits of people both famous and unknown — was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

What British advertising designer, poster artist, and illustrator won first place in a poster competition held by the London City Council in 1935, and from that point on freelanced as a graphic artist?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/28~

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This French artistic revolutionary and pioneer of Dada eventually turned his focus to playing chess; although no longer considered to be an active artist, he continued to consult with artists, art dealers and collectors.

As a child, this artist became fascinated with the engraved illustrations in her grandfather’s books; as an adult, she made this medium her specialty, with detailed representations of both urban centers and rustic scenes.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/27~

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What Uruguayan-born American figural painter is known for his paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century, and Spanish life and society?

What American sculptor moved to California in 1955 where, in addition to his sculptures, he designed sets for TV studios and worked as art director for the Ernie Kovacs Show?

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