Tag Archives: Painting
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/
Leonardo da Vinci: Died May 2, 1519
Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci
by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1818 • Petit Palais, Paris, France
We know that Leonardo, who had come to France at the invitation of Francis I, died in Amboise in 1519. The undoubtedly fictitious story of his death in the presence of the king comes from The Lives by Vasari. This work, which appeared in 1550, celebrates the excellence of Italian painting following an ascending curve that starts with Cimabue and ends with Michelangelo and Raphael.
FROM http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/francis-i-receives-last-breaths-leonardo-da-vinci
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/1~
This influential American landscape painter’s body of work is comprised of over 1,150 paintings, watercolors, and sketches.
This American painter, who worked mostly in Paris and Capri, avoided the current trends of fauvism and cubism in favoring the style of the aesthetes in her work.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/29~
What artist was apprenticed to a miniature-painter, then to a theatre-scene-painter, eventually becoming a teacher and a painter in watercolors and in oils?
What artist is best remembered as a master printer who created illustrations and compositions with his experiments in type?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/28~
The term this photographer invented to describe himself – Bildjournalist – is still the German word for photojournalist.
In 1960 this artist patented a color of his own invention, which he called International (__) Blue after himself.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/27~
Which painter and photographer with “an artist’s heart” achieved his enduring success as an inventor?
Which illustrator’s most recognizable work was not even executed by the artist himself, but were copies done by other artists?
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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 4/25~
This artist created a vocabulary of various signs and marks that read metaphorically, rather than according to any form of traditional iconography.
This Dutch-born artist was part of the original CoBrA group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) founded at the Café de l’Hotel Notre Dame in Paris.
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The Misty Miss Christy 