Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/21~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.

This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/21/july-21/

19Jul2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/19~

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What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?

What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/19/july-19/

16Jul2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/16~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by Christy

This 18th century painter believed that portraiture could rise above its traditional status as mere ‘face-painting’ by making reference to the great art of the past.

Until he began to get official recognition in his mid-forties, this French artist lived on a small allowance from his parents, who fondly regarded him as a talentless amateur.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/16/july-16/

15Jul2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/15~

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What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?

What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/15/july-15/

10Jul2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/10~

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What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?

What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/10/july-10/

8Jul2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/8~

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Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?

Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/08/july-8/

30Jun2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/30~

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What artist, a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, originally worked in construction as a pipe fitter’s assistant while sculpting and painting at night?

What Louisiana artist executed a series of black-and-white woodcut prints in 2002 and 2003 with imagery of New Orleans that looks as if it was created immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/30/june-30/

27Jun2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/27~

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What painter and printmaker in the New York School progressed from realism to abstraction and later to a highly influential style of cartoon realism?

What artist, metalsmith and educator approached metal like a collage artist, casting a series of elements and then assembling them in compositions?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/27/june-27/

25Jun2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/25~

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Which American painter and printmaker served in the US Air Force during WWII, and began to paint while hospitalized for several years after being injured during test flight maneuvers?

Which artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera — “poor art” — movement, which took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in Italy?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/25/june-25/

21Jun2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/21~

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For decades this artist’s “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” (1896) was the only painting by an African American exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.

In the 1950s, the State Department revoked this artist’s passport because he was suspected of being a Communist; however, he sued for its reinstatement and emerged victorious in a landmark Supreme Court case.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/21~

The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.

This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/21/july-21/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/19~

What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?

What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/19/july-19/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/16~

This 18th century painter believed that portraiture could rise above its traditional status as mere ‘face-painting’ by making reference to the great art of the past.

Until he began to get official recognition in his mid-forties, this French artist lived on a small allowance from his parents, who fondly regarded him as a talentless amateur.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/16/july-16/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/15~

What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?

What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/15/july-15/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/10~

What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?

What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/10/july-10/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/8~

Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?

Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/08/july-8/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/30~

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/27~

What painter and printmaker in the New York School progressed from realism to abstraction and later to a highly influential style of cartoon realism?

What artist, metalsmith and educator approached metal like a collage artist, casting a series of elements and then assembling them in compositions?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/27/june-27/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/25~

Which American painter and printmaker served in the US Air Force during WWII, and began to paint while hospitalized for several years after being injured during test flight maneuvers?

Which artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera — “poor art” — movement, which took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in Italy?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/25/june-25/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/21~

For decades this artist’s “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” (1896) was the only painting by an African American exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.

In the 1950s, the State Department revoked this artist’s passport because he was suspected of being a Communist; however, he sued for its reinstatement and emerged victorious in a landmark Supreme Court case.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/21/june-21/

The prints and techniques of this Prague born-painter, etcher, and lithographer went through extensive changes as he traveled internationally, learning new methods wherever he went.

This painter, printmaker, and draftsman had a long, prolific, and highly successful career which extended from the late 19th century academic tradition to German Impressionism and finally Expressionism.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/21/july-21/

What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?

What Chinese Realism painter championed the revitalization of artistic expression through an integration of Western perspective and Chinese methods of composition?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/19/july-19/

This 18th century painter believed that portraiture could rise above its traditional status as mere ‘face-painting’ by making reference to the great art of the past.

Until he began to get official recognition in his mid-forties, this French artist lived on a small allowance from his parents, who fondly regarded him as a talentless amateur.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/16/july-16/

What artist, a famous painter and draftsman in his own time and considered the most important in Dutch history, was also the most innovative printmaker of the seventeenth century?

What artist — a sculptor in wood who began to build furniture — believed that handcraft was secondary to design, saying he put into his work “a little of the hand, but the main thing is the heart and the head”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/15/july-15/

What Greek artist, sculptor, and set designer — whose work influenced the development of the Surrealists and Dadaists — initiated a return to classical themes during the 1920s?

What French artist, an Expressionist painter first and foremost, also explored the disciplines of lithography, engraving, sculpture, set design, and illustration?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/10/july-10/

Which Italian painter’s first known work is Susanna and the Elders (1610), painted when she was 17 and such an accomplished work that it was long attributed to her father?

Which Berlin-born artist’s father sent her to study in Munich when she became engaged in 1889, to persuade her to choose painting and printmaking over marriage?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/08/july-8/

What painter and printmaker in the New York School progressed from realism to abstraction and later to a highly influential style of cartoon realism?

What artist, metalsmith and educator approached metal like a collage artist, casting a series of elements and then assembling them in compositions?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/27/june-27/

Which American painter and printmaker served in the US Air Force during WWII, and began to paint while hospitalized for several years after being injured during test flight maneuvers?

Which artist is considered one of the leading figures of the Arte Povera — “poor art” — movement, which took place between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in Italy?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/25/june-25/

For decades this artist’s “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” (1896) was the only painting by an African American exhibited in the Louvre in Paris.

In the 1950s, the State Department revoked this artist’s passport because he was suspected of being a Communist; however, he sued for its reinstatement and emerged victorious in a landmark Supreme Court case.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/21/june-21/

What member of the Impressionists group showed little interest in painting
plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light?