Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/28~

What German-born Dutch Golden Age painter was an ardent student of nature who frequently sailed in an open boat on the sea in order to study the effects of storms?

What Swiss/French painter & printmaker associated with Les Nabis completed over 1700 paintings, 200 prints, 100s of drawings, and several sculptures during his lifetime?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/19~

This German-born American artist, radicalized by the trauma of World War I, said: “During the war I became interested in truth – in bitter truth and the struggle of life in general.”

This artist – often associated with the Bay Area figurative school – resists categorization, working in a wide range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, posters, and sculptures.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/12~

What Norwegian painter, associated with the Symbolist and Expressionist movements, would revisit subjects from his earlier years with renewed inspiration and intensity?

What postwar American second-generation abstract painter is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/10~

What Russian-born American artist was introduced to lithography — the most important medium in a career that included graphic design, fine art, costume & set design, and illustration — in 1923?

What 20th century painter and leading figure of the Chicago Imagist school observed, “I try to paint the things that everybody sees, things that are just a part of everybody’s experience of life”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 12/1~

In 1766 this French sculptor was summoned to Russia by Catherine II to produce a bronze equestrian statue of Peter the Great, dedicated in 1782.

This painter and printmaker was one of 4 founders of the Expressionist group Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) which was formed in Dresden in 1905.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/28~

Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, this inward-looking English poet, painter, and printmaker is now ranked among the most original visual artists of the Romantic era.

Although this Color Field painter worked steadily as an artist all his adult life, the work for which he is known was done in a span of five years beginning in the late 1950s.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/27~

What Spanish-born American artist’s well-known work is the large group sculpture in Central Park titled ”Alice in Wonderland”?

What Japanese artist moved to France, became a fixture on the 1920s Paris cafe circuit, and died a French citizen in 1968?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/24~

This painter’s career coincided with two major developments in late 19th century Paris: the birth of modern printmaking and the explosion of nightlife culture.

This Belgian sculptor and painter was linked with 2 groups who helped to shape Modernism, as a member of De Stijl and later as a member of Abstraction-Création.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/22~

Which German Expressionist painter and printmaker worked through a variety of  styles before, at age 60, finding the technique in which he would work for the rest of his career?

Which French artist and photographer created an icon of the Surrealism movement when she represented the bestial nature of man with a close-up image of a baby armadillo?

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