Tag Archives: Painter
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/10~
This Danish-German Neoclassical painter concentrated on heroic figure compositions; working primarily in pencil, chalk, watercolor, and tempera and rarely in oil.
This Russian artist began his career as an illustrator and painter but went on to revolutionize scenery and costume design and to influence the fabrics and fashions of his day.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/10/may-10/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/9~
Known mostly for his drawings and engravings, this Dutch painter of the Flemish School also designed tapestries.
This ceramist and her husband were both largely self-taught studio potters who worked together throughout their 69 year marriage.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/8~
Which 17th century Italian painter, whose principal works are his frescoes, was also a renowned portraitist who won commissions to paint seven consecutive popes?
Which designer — who brought his minimal style to logos, packaging, corporate identities, and more — is best known for his film posters and title sequences?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/08/may-8/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/7~
What court painter and tapestry designer later focused most of his activities on designing tapestries and stained glass, including windows for the Brussels Cathedral?
What abstract painter was also a singer who auditioned for the New York City Opera and became a success as a dramatic soprano?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/07/may-7/
Barry Nemett on Gwen John
Gwen John, A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris, 1907-09, Oil on canvas, 12.3 x 9.8 inches, National Museum Cardiff, Wales
The building weighs less than a flower. The parasol stem dreams about being a wicker chair. A blade of wall threatens the throat of the outside world . . .
Source: Barry Nemett on Gwen John
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/6~
This artist contributed to development of the genre “monkeys’ kitchens”, allegorical scenes of monkeys enacting human vices popular in Flemish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This artist was one of the founders of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/5~
This Philippine painter is best remembered for painting landscapes, portraits, and everyday scenes with people depicted as simple yet regal in their daily activities.
This artist worked on the classic ‘Mickey Mouse’ newspaper strip, and is the artist that shaped Mickey’s comics character and gave him his first big adventures.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/4~
What major Hudson River School painter’s home, studio, and designed landscape opened as a New York State Historic Site in June 1967?
What contemporary ceramist has been awarded a Fellow of the RCA and an OBE, and seeks to stretch the definition of the pot by exploring the relationships of form and surface?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/04/may-4/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/3~
This Florentine painter was taken under the care of Agnolo Bronzino, a family friend, after his father died; his young life was spent in Bronzino’s workshop in Florence.
This sculptor’s “Orpheus and Apollo,” commissioned in 1961, is a 5-ton, 190-foot-long constellation of polished bronze bars connected by wires that hangs over the lobby at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/03/may-3/
The Misty Miss Christy 