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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/14~

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Despite his great success as a portraitist, this 18th-Century artist always maintained that he preferred painting landscapes.

This Photorealist painter has long used projected 35-millimeter color slides as the basis of his images, which he then develops through layers of underdrawings and washes.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/13~

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What artist collaborated with Pablo Picasso, during which time among other things they developed Cubism, from 1909 until 1914?

In 1972, which German designer refined Olympic pictograms into the concise system that most people think of today as the symbols of the games?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/12~

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This painter, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was also a poet, illustrator, and translator.

This artist—noted for his work in the minimalism, hard-edge painting, and post-painterly abstraction movements—continues to live and work in New York.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/11~

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What artist, the leading French sculptor of his time, created works that form a prelude to the art of his student and admirer Auguste Rodin?

What artist went to Hollywood to work with Alfred Hitchcock on the film Spellbound, crafting a dream sequence full of psychoanalytic symbols?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/10~

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This Danish-German Neoclassical painter concentrated on heroic figure compositions; working primarily in pencil, chalk, watercolor, and tempera and rarely in oil.

This Russian artist began his career as an illustrator and painter but went on to revolutionize scenery and costume design and to influence the fabrics and fashions of his day.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/8~

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Which 17th century Italian painter, whose principal works are his frescoes, was also a renowned portraitist who won commissions to paint seven consecutive popes?

Which designer — who brought his minimal style to logos, packaging, corporate identities, and more — is best known for his film posters and title sequences?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/7~

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What court painter and tapestry designer later focused most of his activities on designing tapestries and stained glass, including windows for the Brussels Cathedral?

What abstract painter was also a singer who auditioned for the New York City Opera and became a success as a dramatic soprano?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/6~

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This artist contributed to development of the genre “monkeys’ kitchens”, allegorical scenes of monkeys enacting human vices popular in Flemish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.

This artist was one of the founders of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/5~

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This Philippine painter is best remembered for painting landscapes, portraits, and everyday scenes with people depicted as simple yet regal in their daily activities.

This artist worked on the classic ‘Mickey Mouse’ newspaper strip, and is the artist that shaped Mickey’s comics character and gave him his first big adventures.

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