Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/17~
What American figurative sculptor’s lifelike figures, made of cast fiberglass and polyester resin and dressed in everyday clothes, often fooled the public into believing that they were viewing real people?
What cartoonist left Havana for New York in May 1960, knowing only Spanish, but with his daughter acting as interpreter went to the offices of Mad Magazine with his drawings and was hired on the spot?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/15~
This youngest member of De Stijl worked in numerous mediums, but three-dimensional relief — which he developed into a high art form — came to dominate his output.
This American sculptor, printmaker, and draftswoman is a pioneer with her use of unconventional materials, including scavenging and repurposing objects.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/13~
Which Dutch Golden Age painter was one of the main pioneers of naturalistic landscape in early 17th-century Holland?
Which sculptor and craftsman is referred to as the father of the contemporary woodturning movement in the United States?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/11~
Which Philadelphia-born artist was the son of one famous sculptor and the father of another?
Which German-born American sculptor was one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/10~
This prominent late 19th/early 20th century illustrator’s most famous poster was a young woman dressed in a Navy uniform with the caption, “If I were a man, I would join the Navy”.
This American artist’s images depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and influenced the styles of the time, and have continued to define the jazz age for subsequent generations.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/8~
What Italian Baroque painter and printmaker became known for her ability to so quickly paint beautifully finished canvases that many visited her studio to watch her work?
What artist was one of the most universally admired painters of late 19th century Britain, so identified with that period that later on he was reduced to relative obscurity?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/5~
This self-taught Paris-born American painter was introduced into the circle of surrealist artists in 1924, and subsequently participated in all the Surrealists’ major exhibitions.
Known for his use of thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape paintings, this Russian-French painter was one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/3~
Which 17th-century European artist is considered the greatest French follower of Caravaggio, and one of the great champions of naturalistic painting?
Which Vermont-born artist, a neoclassical sculptor who worked in Florence for more than half a century, designed the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, IL?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/2~
What German expressionist’s ardor for war was extinguished during his experiences in WWI, with the result that he is mostly known for his later sculptures warning of war’s tragic consequences?
What American surrealist was one of only three Americans in the landmark 1932 exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in NYC, which introduced European surrealism to the United States?
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