Tag Archives: Photographer
Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/7~
An important pioneer of postwar abstraction, this Belgian artist is best known for his paintings and sculptures primarily organized by vertical lines.
Born in 1947 in an East LA housing project, this artist was a high school senior when a friend gave him a photography textbook that had been left in a bathroom.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/2~
What Hungarian-born photographer, who had a profound effect on hand-held photography, died in New York in 1985 leaving behind 100,000 negatives, many of which to this day remain unseen?
What designer, typographer, & painter wanted to be a chemist but when his parents couldn’t afford tuition turned to art, eventually co-founding one of Switzerland’s best-known ad agencies?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/29~
This sculptor produced lifelike portrait busts such as Andrew Jackson — and idealized figures such as The Greek Slave (1843) which helped to overcome the public’s dislike of female nudity in art.
This African-American photographer who lived in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance had a gift for capturing the most influential individuals and riveting artistic moments of the era.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/13~
This Swiss-German painter and printmaker was one of the most prolific and skilled creator of woodcut illustrations in the 16th century.
He considered photography his hobby, but this French photographer and painter is known for his photos of automobile races, planes and Parisian models.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/12~
What Austrian Expressionist is known for his erotic paintings, anguished self-portraits, and a life marked by scandal, notoriety, & an early death by influenza three days after the death of his pregnant wife?
What Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer of 13 wars produced his best-known photograph while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/4~
What American photographer in New Hampshire produced many dozens of stereoscopic images with scenes from his home state?
What American illustrator and painter became known in the 1920s and 1930s for his illustrations in popular magazines such as the Ladies’ Home Journal?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/2~
What American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book artist helped create the long-running Marvel Comics characters Millie the Model and Patsy Walker?
What Dutch photographer’s major theme, people in transitional moments, was formed when she began her breakthrough Beach Portrait series (begun in 1992)?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/29~
What photographer provided a respectful portrait of the rural culture and craftspeople of the Appalachian Mountains and the Gullahs of South Carolina?
What painter, known for her incisive self-portraits, began as an artist by taking children’s art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago at age eight?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/20~
Which German baroque sculptor also worked as an architect and built many state buildings in Berlin during his role as Court Architect?
Which photojournalist and his wife became LIFE magazine’s first husband and wife photographer-reporter team to be sent overseas?
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