Tag Archives: Architect
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/20~
Perhaps the most famous father-son duo in the architectural world, these two designers left profound influences upon the cities where they did their work, were awarded AIA Gold Medals, and share the same day of birth.
Starting in 1957 this photographer’s husband-and-wife team traveled through Europe and North America taking photographs of industrial architecture and organizing them into series based on functional typologies.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/30~
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 6/18~
In his later years this 16th century Italian architect and sculptor was influenced by Counter-Reformation piety, repudiating his earlier nude sculptures as lustful and designing several austere buildings for the Jesuits.
This painter and illustrator was also a writer for Life and Judge, and even wrote and acted in silent films, but his most famous achievement is his painting of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/8~
What architect’s career spanned seven decades before his death in 1959 — during which he designed 1,114 architectural works, of which 532 were realized?
What artist moved his family and studio from NYC to rural New York just as he was achieving widespread recognition in 1951, remaining there for the rest of his life?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/20~
Which German baroque sculptor also worked as an architect and built many state buildings in Berlin during his role as Court Architect?
Which photojournalist and his wife became LIFE magazine’s first husband and wife photographer-reporter team to be sent overseas?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/30~
What architect played a prominent role in the battle over the introduction of modern architecture in Berlin during the 1920s?
Which Irish artist’s stone carvings of 1938–9 constitute an important contribution to Surrealist sculpture?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/27~
Harbor scenes were an important subject of this painter, which reveal his interest in depicting the light reflections on the water surface.
This leading German avant-garde architect and educator was the third and last Bauhaus director.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/15~
What 18th century artist came from a family of painters, creating portraits as well as history paintings?
What architect was the designer of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon and opened in 1804?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/6~
Despite changing course a number of times, this artist never employed violent color contrasts during any of his stylistic phases.
This architect served in both World Wars, fighting at the Italian front in the first war and serving domestically in the second.
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