Tag Archives: Artists’ Birthdays
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/23~
What English landscape painter has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction?
What designer was a founding partner of digital type library FontShop, for which he has designed many typefaces including Industria and Blur?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/23/april-23/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/22~
What German-Swiss painter helped to create the Schillerschule, Frankfurt’s first school for girls, in 1908?
What photographer, to make a living during the Depression, published postcards, worked on a series of slides on archaeological subjects, and even operated a turkey farm?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/22/april-22/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/21~
Around 1582 this artist and his cousins founded an academy that emphasized drawing from life and offered an opportunity to study optics, anatomy, and other subjects considered important to painters.
This American modernist painter was influential in introducing innovations of the European avant-garde to US painters and sculptors.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/21/april-21/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/20~
What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial?
What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/20/april-20/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/19~
This artist’s most successful prints were produced during 1930 to 1938, with over forty colour linocuts as well as a collaboration on a series of posters for the London Passenger Transport Board.
This photographer/filmmaker/performance artist died, or disappeared, in 1975 at the age of 33 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 13 foot sailboat.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/19/april-19/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/18~
During the First World War, this painter was appointed as an official war artist and produced a number of large-scale allegorical works.
In 1930 this artist became the first American modernist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/18/april-18/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/17~
Which artist didn’t start painting until he was 26 but went on to become arguably Sri Lanka’s most celebrated 20th Century artist?
Which English designer wrote “What Is a Designer”, containing reminders of the importance of sound craftsmanship and moral responsibilities?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/17/april-17/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/16~
What French artist, Marie Antoinette’s favorite painter for a decade, published her memoirs in 1835–37?
What artist is probably best known for his sculptures built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/15~
This artist, scientist, naturalist and amateur inventor established what became the first public natural history museum in America.
This artist, along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, pioneered the regionalist movement in American art during the 1930s.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/15/april-15/
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