Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/12~

What artist studied painting, but chose to devote himself entirely to commercial photography and photojournalism until his untimely death in 1959 from a plane crash?

What American Abstract Expressionist painter was particularly well known for his large scale hard-edge paintings, although multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/11~

What American painter, loosely grouped with the Precisionists, tried his hand at a number of realistic and quasi-realistic movements before achieving his somehow abstract yet hyper-real style?

What American painter and draftsman said in the late 1950s, “It never occurred to me to join a group which advocated a particular philosophy of art. It would have been unnatural to me”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/10~

Living only thirty-six years, and plagued by frequent illness, this painter rose from an obscure background to achieve fame in Paris during the eighteenth century.

This Swiss sculptor and painter is best known for the tall, unnaturally thin figures which he sculpted in the late 1940s, a period followed by his rapid rise to fame.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/9~

Which 18th century French sculptor’s designs of figure groups for the Sèvres Manufactory porcelain factory are better known than his large-scale sculptures?

Which American neoclassical artist is celebrated as the first female professional sculptor, credited with opening the field of sculpture to women?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/8~

This German artist, one of the leading exponents of Impressionism in Germany, combined his interest in music and drawing in a famous series of portraits of a celebrated Portuguese opera singer.

This American artist began her career in the 1960s as a painter but is best known for her reinterpretation of quilts as art combining painting, fabric, and stories of her life and the lives of others in the black community.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/7~

What experimental artist, known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles, was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation?

What Quebec painter and sculptor was the only Canadian artist involved with the seminal post-World War II École de Paris (School of Paris)?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/6~

This artist’s 1893 essay, Das Problem der Form (The Problem of Form), asserted that truth is revealed in form, with subject matter of relatively minor importance.

This Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer was one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/5~

Which 18th Century Italian painter, from a family of artists, is considered to be among the last practitioners — along with his brothers — of the classic Venetian school of painting?

Which English sculptor and designer, being not as well known as some of his contemporaries, has been described as “the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/4~

What French painter, one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France, portrayed the dignity of agricultural laborers?

What American artist’s paintings, illustrations, sculptures, and writing played a major role in creating our popular image of the West?

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