Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/14~

Which French Impressionist’s quest to capture nature more accurately also prompted him to reject European conventions governing composition, color, and perspective?

Which American Regionalist started his career as an illustrator of pulp magazines, and eventually won prominence with anecdotal paintings and murals reflecting social attitudes of the 1930s?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/11~

This early western photographer is best known for his mammoth-plate prints using 18”x22” glass plate negatives, but he actually published the majority of his work as stereoviews.

This French neo-impressionist painter was one of the originators of the technique known as pointillism or divisionism, created by scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/10~

Which 18th-century English artist gained popularity for his morality paintings, and the engravings that were made from them?

Which American-born British sculptor was a proponent of the idea that the creative process is inseparably related to the material being used?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/7~

What Spanish Baroque painter, whose work infrequently included landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, is especially noted for religious subjects?

What Czech-born American painter and printmaker maintained two studios in the 1920s, frequently traveling back and forth from Paris to New York City?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/5~

This 18th century Venetian artist’s frescoes for the Ca’ Sagredo palace met with terrible critical reception, which may have led to his shift toward small genre paintings of everyday life.

This Cubist sculptor studied medicine at the University of Paris but gave up school for a career in art, previously an avocation, when rheumatic fever forced him to abandon his studies.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/4~

This Italian Baroque artist created easel paintings and large decorations in Rome, Naples, Mantua, and Bologna for patrons including Pope Paul V and Italy’s top royalty.

This 20th Century artist would work for as long as it took to realize his vision, sculpting without looking at the clock and saying, “I’m in no hurry. It’ll take a year if need be.”

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/3~

What Italian Baroque painter, together with his cousin and his older brother, was painting Europe’s most radical and innovative pictures during the 1580s?

What artist documented American life from the 1920s to the 1970s, earning a reputation as one of the country’s  most influential photographers?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/2~

What 18th-century French artist is best known for his still lifes, a category which he helped to elevate to a new level of respect?

What French illustrator is best known to contemporary audiences for his illustration of Cosette from “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/31~

What painter ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists but was much less well known in his own day than today, primarily because he produced just a small number of paintings?

What artist was one of the most important and controversial photographers of the 20th Century, creating highly erotic, bold, and provocative fashion and editorial photos?

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