Tag Archives: Painter
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/9~
What French artist introduced the Italianate Baroque style of painting into France after living in Italy from 1612 to 1627?
What American abstract painter, the youngest of the Color Field artists, first exhibited in New York at the age of 15?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/09/january-9/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/8~
What Italian Baroque painter and printmaker became known for her ability to so quickly paint beautifully finished canvases that many visited her studio to watch her work?
What artist was one of the most universally admired painters of late 19th century Britain, so identified with that period that later on he was reduced to relative obscurity?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/08/january-8/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/7~
Which French Naturalist painter and printmaker was elected in November 1900 to the Fine Arts Academy of the French Institute, one of the youngest painters to receive this honor?
Which American artist became a rising star in the 1980s for his graphite and charcoal series “Men in the Cities”, which depicted smartly dressed men and women flailing in awkward postures?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/07/january-7/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/6~
In 1861, this artist self-published a folio edition of etchings for Dante’s Inferno, which became instantly successful and to this day colors our collective imaginings of the Divine Comedy.
This Russian suprematist/constructivist painter, theatrical designer, and book illustrator divided her life between Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/06/january-6/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/5~
This self-taught Paris-born American painter was introduced into the circle of surrealist artists in 1924, and subsequently participated in all the Surrealists’ major exhibitions.
Known for his use of thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape paintings, this Russian-French painter was one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/05/january-5/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/4~
What American Modernist painter, poet, & essayist, whose work changed direction several times, often responded to praise by exclaiming, “Oh, but just wait and see what I will paint next year”?
What French painter, sculptor, illustrator, designer, & writer, who once worked as a pattern-drawer in an embroidery studio, had his first major retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1941?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/04/january-4/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/3~
Which 17th-century European artist is considered the greatest French follower of Caravaggio, and one of the great champions of naturalistic painting?
Which Vermont-born artist, a neoclassical sculptor who worked in Florence for more than half a century, designed the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, IL?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/03/january-3-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/2~
What German Expressionist sculptor, printmaker, and dramatist characteristically featured bulky, monumental figures in heavy drapery in a style often called “modern Gothic”?
What American painter’s abstract, biomorphic forms combined with vaguely representational imagery was part of the introduction of Surrealism into the U.S. in the early 1930s?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2016/01/02/january-2/
January First: Happy New Year!
Link~ J.C. Leyendecker, Father of the New Year’s Baby
“Joseph Christian Leyendecker wasn’t the first artist to use an infant to represent the new year. But over the span of 36 years, he made the New Year’s baby as familiar to Americans as Father Time.
A consummate illustrator — and mentor to Norman Rockwell — Leyendecker was continually searching for better ways to depict the holidays. He created many fanciful covers that caught the spirit of Christmas, Fourth of July, Easter, and Thanksgiving. But the New Year’s babies are arguably his most memorable.
His first baby was delivered for the December 29, 1906, issue of the Post. It shows a cherub atop a globe, turning over a fresh page in a book of New Year’s resolutions. The series continue without interruption until 1943…”
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/12/31/art-entertainment/art-and-artists/new-years-babies.html
The Misty Miss Christy 