Tag Archives: Designer
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/3~
What painter had a nearly sixty-year career on two continents, moving from Boston to London in 1774 and adapting his successful American portrait style to the more painterly British approach?
What Hungarian artist was a painter but earned his living from poster and graphic design works, writing and publishing extensively about commercial art?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/03/july-3/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/26~
This English late 18th-century painter had early professional success and produced a huge amount of work, in spite of leading a dissolute life and often being drunk, in hiding from his creditors, or in prison.
This designer, illustrator, co-founder of Pushpin Studio, and 2009 National Medal of the Arts award recipient (the first graphic designer to receive this award) also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/26/june-26-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/24~
What Pennsylvania artist and collector built his tile factory, museum, and house using coarse-textured and unconcealed reinforced concrete, an especially unusual building material for a house?
Of what artist did a writer for the Chicago Daily News state in 1934: “[He] might have developed into America’s greatest painter had he not chosen to become America’s greatest art teacher”?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/24/june-24/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/5~
Which designer studied human anatomy, mathematics, and engineering at Los Angeles University to help bolster the quality of his shoe designs?
Which artist took the monumental scale of New York School Abstract Expressionism and applied it to his collage paintings?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/05/june-5/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/16~
Which post-war Soviet Union painter, despite the mixed critical reception to his work, was able to lead a highly successful career due to his many supporters in the state cultural bureaucracy?
Which contemporary French fashion designer enrolled in art history and museum studies, planning to become a museum curator, until he realized that his true calling was fashion and costume design?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/16/may-16/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/8~
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?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/08/may-8/
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 4/17~
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 4/8~
This 19th century artist worked almost entirely in watercolours or chalks, although his style was such that at first glance his paintings look like oils.
This former schoolteacher came to be known as one of the most influential British fashion designers of the 20th century, often cited as punk’s creator.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/08/april-8/
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