Tag Archives: Poetry
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.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/25/april-25/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/18~
During the First World War, this painter was appointed as an official war artist and produced a number of large-scale allegorical works.
In 1930 this artist became the first American modernist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/18/april-18/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/22~
What French painter, illustrator, and designer began painting in an Impressionist style but then became successively involved with the Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism movements?
What Dutch graphic and type designer has developed many popular typefaces, including those used by the signage systems of the Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/22/january-22/
E.E. Cummings: Born October 14, 1894
From his youth, Cummings was fascinated with painting and the fine arts. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, he began drawing and writing well before his time at Harvard University. “He drew from childhood just as he wrote poems from childhood. He just knew he wanted to be an artist,” said Cohen.
“He was an artist first and foremost, and these [writing and painting] were the two forms of expression that were always part of his work,” said Cohen. “It was clear he was good with words, and he was determined he would just
as good with a pen and paintbrush.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/26/the-secret-art-life-of-e-e-cummings.html
The Paintings of E.E. Cummings~ http://eecummingsart.com/
“The Agony of the Artist (with a capital A)”~ https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/e-e-cummings-miscellany-agony-of-the-artist/
“The Rebellion of E.E. Cummings”~ http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/03/the-rebellion-of-ee-cumm.html
Poetry Foundation Biography~ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings
Bob Dylan: Born May 24, 1941
Bob Dylan Through The Years~
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/photos-70-photos-of-bob-dylan-on-his-70th-birthday-20110524
Bob Dylan: Official Site~ http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home
Bob Dylan: Halcyon Gallery~ https://www.halcyongallery.com/bob-dylan/
Bob Dylan: Castle Fine Art~ https://www.castlefineart.com/artists/bob-dylan
Kate Greenaway: Born on March 17, 1846
K is for Kate…Kate Greenaway
English artist and writer, known for her children’s book illustrations. She studied graphic design and art at the South Kensington School of Art; the Royal Female School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine’s cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/kate-greenaway
Still more about Kate Greenaway here: http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/illustration/greenaway/index.html and here: https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/kate-greenaway
Elihu Vedder: Born February 26, 1836
During the second half of the nineteenth century Elihu Vedder was among the
most imaginative and independent of the American expatriate artists. After studying with the genre painter Tompkins H. Matteson in New York, Vedder traveled to Paris…In 1857 he moved to Florence…Vedder returned to the United States in 1860 and began to establish a reputation for imaginative literary paintings and book illustrations. He became a member of the Tile Club and the Century Association and an intimate of notable artistic and literary circles in New York.
FROM About This Artist~ https://collections.lacma.org/node/167054
Elihu Vedder (1836–1923)~ http://www.questroyalfineart.com/artist/elihu-vedder/
From the Met Collection~ https://bit.ly/3guaUML
Happy Birthday, Lewis Carroll
Although the various cinematic adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s books never seem to follow the stories very faithfully, I have for some reason decided to note his birthday by having a look around for a list of tv shows and movies based on Alice. This site has done the best job, in my opinion, and it includes some good links if you are interested enough to pursue the topic further:
Alice in Wonderland
cinema, tv and video representations
Compiled by Michael Organ
https://www.uow.edu.au/%7Emorgan/alice1.htm
October 29~
Shin Saimdang (1504-1551)
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Shin_Saimdang
Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904)
http://www.rusartist.org/andrei-petrovich-ryabushkin-1861-1904/#.VjJM3aRtTwM
The Misty Miss Christy 