Tag Archives: Photography
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/31~
This photographer dropped out during her senior year of high school, knowing she wanted to do something in the arts though she could not draw well; she found the answer in 1931 while assisting in the darkroom of a portrait photographer in the Bronx.
This artist started her career at age 46, when she enrolled in classes with the intent of making quilts for her daughters to take to college; she eventually graduated from traditional patterns to abstract designs and narratives of African American history and heritage.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/31/august-31/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/23~
Which Scottish artist and sculptor died in 2008 at age 100, having been the last living link with the art nouveau period in Glasgow?
Which artist produced ground-breaking works in the 60s that established his reputation as one of America’s leading conceptualists?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/23/august-23/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/20~
Perhaps the most famous father-son duo in the architectural world, these two designers left profound influences upon the cities where they did their work, were awarded AIA Gold Medals, and share the same day of birth.
Starting in 1957 this photographer’s husband-and-wife team traveled through Europe and North America taking photographs of industrial architecture and organizing them into series based on functional typologies.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/20/august-20/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/17~
Which American sculptor was best known for her genre statuettes, contributing to the popularity of small bronze sculpture in America?
Which German-American photographer began her career at age twelve, assisting her father in the darkroom and working in the family studio?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/17/august-17/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/16~
Which Italian painter and printmaker, born into a family of renowned artists, was also a popular and skilled teacher whose anatomical studies were later engraved and used for almost two centuries as academic teaching aids?
Which photographer had brief careers as model, stage actress, and silent film actress — appearing in three films, the last one in 1922 — before discovering her true talent as a photographer?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/16/august-16/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/13~
What Russian-born American sculptor specialized in the carving of allegorical and mythological figures, including Europa and the Bull, a fountain group that was a feature of the 1939 New York World’s Fair?
What American photographer of 80s and 90s fashion and celebrities concentrated on black-and-white photography which often portrayed his subjects in the visual language of classical Greek sculpture?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/13/august-13/
August 9, 1945: “Fat Man” is dropped over Nagasaki
In pictures: Nagasaki bombing~ http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-33769566
What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/09/what-nagasaki-looked-like-before-and-after-the-bomb/?tid=pm_world_pop_b
Nagasaki Official Visitor Guide: Peace Park~ http://visit-nagasaki.com/spots/detail/209
The Art of Peace, Nagasaki~ http://nuclearfutures.org/the-art-of-peace-nagasaki/
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