Tag Archives: Cartoonist
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/15~
What Seventeenth Century painter explained that, to him, various subjects made different demands on an artist and required very different expressive means to properly fulfill them?
What artist–renowned for drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture–drew the famous 1976 New Yorker cover “View of the World from 9th Avenue”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/15/june-15/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/2~
What American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book artist helped create the long-running Marvel Comics characters Millie the Model and Patsy Walker?
What Dutch photographer’s major theme, people in transitional moments, was formed when she began her breakthrough Beach Portrait series (begun in 1992)?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/02/june-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/31~
This painter was only five years old when his father died and he grew up in Florence under the care of Il Bronzino, a family friend.
Best known for the creation of the “Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers”, this artist was one of the pioneers of the Underground Comix movement.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/24~
In the early 19th Century, this sculptor began scouring the French countryside for medieval antiques to sell to raise money; this resulted in a personal collection which forms a core part of The Cloisters in New York City.
In 1956, this artist designed an updated version of the DC superhero Flash, the character that heralded the wholesale return of superheroes and the beginning of what fans and historians call the Silver Age of comics.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/15~
What American painter explained that his imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, and maps of the US?
What cartoonist/illustrator, his provocative work rejected by editors in London, began traveling back and forth to the US in search of a more hospitable publishing environment?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/5~
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.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/05/may-5/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/11~
Which Indian artist combined a modern art interpretation with the tradition of Bengali folk painters?
Which artist, who drew her popular comic strip for forty years, assumed a sexually ambiguous first name when originally trying to be published?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/11/april-11/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/3~
What cartoonist, whose strip debuted November 15, 1907, was one of the first to copyright and control their work?
What designer is credited as one of the first to explore the potential of aluminum and for “bringing (it) out of the kitchen”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/03/april-3/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/17~
What French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer is especially remembered for his naturalistic scenes of animals and of hunting?
What comic strip artist is also a cartoon historian who co-authored a book about the art of George Herriman?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/17/march-17/
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