Tag Archives: Lithography
Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/26~
To achieve accuracy in his enormous Raft of the Medusa, for which Eugène Delacroix posed as one of the figures, this painter used a model of the raft and carefully studied real cadavers.
This photographer was educated as a sociologist and was past thirty when he seriously took up photography; he saw the medium as a means of studying and describing the social conditions around him.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/25~
What artist — who moved through many styles before arriving at large soft-edged areas of colour — was one of the founders of the Ten, a group of artists sympathetic to abstraction and expressionism that exhibited until 1940?
What artist, often referred to as the “first woman artist of California”, also worked extensively in tapestry, embroideries, and batiks that stylistically resembled her Fauvist paintings?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/8~
The only painter to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey, this artist established himself as court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I, who made him a baronet in 1715.
This artist worked as a painter and engraver then turned to sculpture, first in wood but later in iron, exhibiting as a sculptor at the 1960 Venice Biennale, then returning to painting in 1967.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/23~
What Washington, DC, painter & teacher was widely exhibited but did not seek publicity nor date her work, leaving her long career known only in outline and largely forgotten?
What New York painter abandoned his social realist style and established himself as the only African-American among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/21~
The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.
This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/14~
In 1897, this painter led a group of 19 avant-garde artists that broke away from Vienna’s conservative Künstlerhaus (the main exhibition venue for contemporary art) to form a new movement: the Vienna Secession.
This sculptor’s later works included a monumental figure commemorating the bombing of Rotterdam and a monument to van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/28~
This painter and his wife, also an artist, designed and furnished the interior of their house with their own textiles, decorations, and painted furniture; today it is one of the most visited places in Sweden.
This painter (born in Utah to Japanese parents) was arrested and sent to detention camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor, where he began to draw with pen and ink and pastels provided by the American Red Cross.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/26~
Although not the first person to attempt to catalog all the birds of America, for half a century this painter was the country’s dominant wildlife artist.
This French Romantic painter was also a renowned lithographer who illustrated works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Byron, and Scott.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/24~
Which artist decided to start a domestic furnishing company along with the friends who assisted him in designing the interior of his own home?
What artist was initially drawn to music, but began exhibiting as a painter in 1909 in Amsterdam?
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