Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/25~
Which artist, born in Philadelphia in 1844, was in the vanguard of young painters who would shift the focus of American art from landscape to the figural subjects favored by the European academies?
Which American painter and illustrator enjoyed a career that lasted for more than half a century and helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and American visual arts?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/25/july-25/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/24~
Although he was considered a Spanish artist, this painter was born in Italy and most active in France, clearly more influenced by Parisian artists and never participating in national exhibitions in Spain.
A struggling and relatively unknown painter of Czech origin living in Paris, this artist achieved immediate fame when in December 1894 he accepted a commission to create a poster for Sarah Bernhardt.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/24/july-24/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/23~
What Washington, DC, painter & teacher was widely exhibited but did not seek publicity nor date her work, leaving her long career known only in outline and largely forgotten?
What New York painter abandoned his social realist style and established himself as the only African-American among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/23/july-23/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/22~
Which artist’s “House by the Railroad”, a gift of an anonymous donor in 1930, was the first oil painting to be acquired for the permanent collections of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art?
Which artist introduced moving parts into his work in 1931, then over the following decades created variations on this concept including “gongs”, “towers”, ”totems”, and “animobiles”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/22/july-22/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/21~
The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.
This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/21/july-21/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/20~
What Hungarian-born American painter, photographer, and educator was highly influenced by Constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and science into the arts?
What influential American feminist artist, author, and educator helped establish the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/20/july-20/
July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
Apollo 11 Image Gallery~ http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html
Moon Light by Edvard Munch
1895 / Oil on canvas / 36 3/5”x43 1/3” / National Museum, Oslo, Norway
The Moon in paintings and art~ http://www.popastro.com/moonwatch/moon_guide/art3.php
Moon in Painting~ http://www.artistsandart.org/2009/07/moon-in-painting.html
Moon Paintings of China and Japan~ https://owlcation.com/humanities/moon-paintings
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/19~
What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?
What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/19/july-19/
Max Fleischer: Born July 19, 1883
In 1900 Max began to work as an errand boy at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. By 1904 he was a staff artist.
In 1905 he married his childhood sweetheart, Essie Gold; they had two children. After he left the Eagle, Max briefly did artwork for two companies and then became art editor of Popular Science Monthly in 1914. There his childhood interest in mechanical matters was reignited.
In fact, it was a mechanical problem that pulled Max Fleischer into the field of animation. Early animation was frequently very choppy. Max theorized that if live-action footage were traced, frame by frame, fluid motion could be achieved. He enlisted the help of his brothers Dave and Joe, and the three developed the Rotoscope, a camera mounted under a piece of frosted glass with a crank to advance the film, so each frame could be traced.
It took the brothers a week to build the Rotoscope, but it was a full year before they finished their first cartoon. Dave donned a clown suit, and Max and Joe filmed him. Then they traced the clown on the Rotoscope. Work on the cartoon was completed in 1916, and a patent for the Rotoscope came through a year later.
FROM http://anb.org/articles/20/20-01567.htmlThe Fleischers put popular, modern music at the center of many of their films, building entire cartoons around jazz legends such as Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Don Redman. These cartoons often featured the Fleischers’ signature
combination of live action and animation; in fact the earliest known footage of Cab Calloway in performance can be seen in the Fleischer classic Minnie the Moocher.
In 1929 the Studio made a major agreement with Paramount that would allow Paramount to distribute all Fleischer films. That same year the Studio changed its name to ‘Fleischer Studios.’
FROM http://www.fleischerstudios.com/history.html
OUT OF THE INKWELL~ https://youtu.be/KHDeCkDUNlk
Max Fleischer NEWS SKETCHES compilation~ https://archive.org/details/max_fleischer_news_sketches
Lambiek Comiclopedia~ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fleischer_max.htm
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