Tag Archives: Fashion
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/13~
What Russian-born American sculptor specialized in the carving of allegorical and mythological figures, including Europa and the Bull, a fountain group that was a feature of the 1939 New York World’s Fair?
What American photographer of 80s and 90s fashion and celebrities concentrated on black-and-white photography which often portrayed his subjects in the visual language of classical Greek sculpture?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/13/august-13/
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 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/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/11~
Which painter, from a family filled with notable persons, is best known for her Impressionist figure studies?
Which designer opened her first boutique on the King’s Road and became famous for popularizing the mini skirt?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/11/february-11/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/23~
What artist’s painting was considered the most shocking work in the 1865 Parisian Salon?
What costume designer advised Yul Brynner to shave his head for his role as the King of Siam?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/23/january-23-2/
Peter Max: Born October 19, 1937
“When Go-Go Met Day-Glo“
Biography~ https://www.parkwestgallery.com/artist/peter-max
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Irving Penn: Born June 16, 1917
The photographer Irving Penn put Marcel Duchamp in a corner, exposed Colette’s forehead and swaddled Rudolf Nureyev’s lithe body in layers of winter clothing. His subjects, who included many of the greatest creative talents of the 20th century, emerged from their portrait sessions with their carefully shaped personas profoundly shaken. Mr. Penn died on Oct. 7, 2009; he was 92.
As one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, Mr. Penn’s signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide.
FROM https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/irving-penn
Irving Penn Foundation~ https://irvingpenn.org/
Art Institute of Chicago: Irving Penn Archives~ https://archive.artic.edu/irvingpennarchives/overview/
Time Magazine: Appreciation –The Photos of Irving Penn~ http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1929105_1964784,00.html
Keith Haring: May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990
Renowned street artist Keith Haring…was born on May 4, 1958, in Pennsylvania, and died in New York in 1990. His eponymous foundation was established a year before his death, and provides grants to those affected by AIDS.
FROM 2016 https://news.artnet.com/people/keith-haring-birthday-2016-485381After graduating high school, he enrolled in the Ivy School of Professional Art, Pittsburgh but quickly discovered he had no desire to become a commercial graphic artist. He dropped out and in 1978 moved to New York where he joined the School of Visual Arts as a scholarship student.
FROM https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/keith-haring-biography/16012/
When not torn or cut from their locations by admirers, they would eventually be covered with new ads. The routine disappearance of these works, in fact, became an incentive for their replenishment and a catalyst for constant reinvention. While many were documented by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi…most of the drawings went unrecorded, thus creating one of the most epic and ephemeral projects in the history of the city.
FROM http://publicdelivery.org/keith-harings-subway-drawings/By the mid-1980’s, Mr. Haring was also doing oil and acrylic paintings, as
well as wall sculptures and free-standing constructions. He had 42 one-man exhibitions, and was represented in group shows like the 1983 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1984 Venice Biennale and exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His works are also in the permanent collections of museums like the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Whitney in New York and the Beaubourg at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
FROM http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/17/obituaries/keith-haring-artist-dies-at-31-career-began-in-subway-graffiti.html
Haring Kids~ http://www.haringkids.com/
The Keith Haring Foundation~ http://www.haring.com/
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