Tag Archives: Printmaker
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/18~
This 17th Century etcher and draftsman, who created thousands of drawings and prints, was basically self-taught.
This contemporary American realist artist is known for her large still lifes, many depicting light bouncing off reflective surfaces.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/18/may-18/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/12~
This painter, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was also a poet, illustrator, and translator.
This artist—noted for his work in the minimalism, hard-edge painting, and post-painterly abstraction movements—continues to live and work in New York.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/12/may-12/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/6~
This artist contributed to development of the genre “monkeys’ kitchens”, allegorical scenes of monkeys enacting human vices popular in Flemish painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
This artist was one of the founders of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/06/may-6/
April 29, 1945: U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau
“In 1944 Zoran Music was arrested by the Gestapo in Venice and deported to the concentration campo in Dachau, an experience that marked his life and his art thereafter. In 1945 he made a series of drawings depicting scenes related to the Holocaust: cremation ovens, hanged men and piles of corpses. These drawings would be the inspiration, in the 1970s, for the series Nous ne sommes pas les derniers (We Are Not the Last)…”
FROM http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/nous-ne-sommes-pas-derniers-we-are-not-last
When we were in the camp, people would often declare that this sort of thing could never happen again. When the war is over, they said, a better world will come into being and such horrors will never recur. . . But then, as time went by, I saw the same sort of thing starting to happen again all over the world—in Vietnam, in the Gulag, in Latin America—everywhere. And I realized that what we had said in those days—that we would be the last people to experience such things—was not true: the truth is that we were not the last. – Zoran Music
FROM http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/an-artists-response-to-evil-we-are-not-the-last-by-zoran-music#about
Zoran Mušič on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Mušič
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/19~
This artist’s most successful prints were produced during 1930 to 1938, with over forty colour linocuts as well as a collaboration on a series of posters for the London Passenger Transport Board.
This photographer/filmmaker/performance artist died, or disappeared, in 1975 at the age of 33 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 13 foot sailboat.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/19/april-19/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/13~
This artist was knighted in 1815, and in 1818 was sent to Europe to paint the leaders who were involved with the allied victory over Napoleon.
This artist was born in 1860 in Ostend in Belgium, where aside from various trips to London, Holland, Paris, and Brussels, he remained until he died.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/13/april-13/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/30~
Which artist’s painting is considered the first life-sized nude portrait of a female without an allegorical or mythological context?
Which artist was a junior clerk, teacher, bookseller, student, and preacher before deciding at age 27 to become an artist?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/30/march-30/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 3/22~
What artist was knighted and became court painter for King Charles I in 1632?
What artist sculpted the “Statue of Freedom” which is on the dome of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/03/22/march-22
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/8~
In 1909, this artist met Wassily Kandinsky who became a mentor; the two founded Der Blaue Reiter.
This turn-of-the-century artist created large-sized, color-expressive paintings which made her a precursor of German Expressionism.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/08/february-8/
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