Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/19~

What artist is best known for his standing nude female figures, robust despite seldom being more than ten inches tall?

What artist was also a teacher whose courses attracted young artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Robert Rauschenberg?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/19/march-19/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/10~

There is little biographical information available for this Dutch Golden Age painter, who mostly signed his works as Rvries.

By the mid-1950s, this artist’s furniture designs were selling so well that he was able to devote his time exclusively to sculpture.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/10/march-10/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/10~

This Russian artist was a member of almost all the European academies of fine arts, serving as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1828 to 1868.

This German painter is best known for seemingly realistic depictions of everyday objects, combining features of realism, Surrealism and Pop art.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/10/february-10

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/25~

What Dutch Golden Age artist’s early works were so similar in style and subject to Rembrandt that collectors once thought that they were Rembrandt’s?

What Japanese game designer’s all-time classic video game concept of eating in order to gain power was inspired by Popeye?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/25/january-25/

Ray Eames: Born December 15, 1912

Ray-Ray was the nickname given to Bernice Alexandra Kaiser by her family. Beyond that, little is known of her childhood in Sacramento, although Ray’s artistic talent was evidently recognized early on. After high school she left California with her widowed mother for New York City, where she studied with the German Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann and exhibited her paintings. After her mother’s death, Ray left New York for further training at the Art Academy in Cranbrook, Michigan, where Charles Eames was one of her teachers and mentors. After divorcing his first wife, Charles married Ray in 1941 in Chicago. The couple left immediately for Southern California, where they opened a design office.
An extraordinary personal and artistic collaboration began with this move, an unusually creative partnership that resulted in innovative designs for furniture, houses, monuments, exhibitions — even toys.
FROM http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/ray-eames/


Eames Foundation~ http://eamesfoundation.org/
Official site of Ray and Charles Eames~ http://www.eamesoffice.com/eames-office/charles-and-ray/

Bill Moggridge: June 25, 1943-September 8, 2012

In 2010, as the new director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Bill Moggridge rode into New York from California with a formidable resume: cofounder of Ideo, inventor of the first laptop computer, author of the seminal work on interaction design, educator, and winner of a slew of international design awards.
But as a city full of designers and design-lovers was quick to discover, rarely has such an illustrious bio been animated by such a delightful person.

“If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.”
FROM http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670751/in-remembrance-of-bill-moggridge-1943-2012