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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/15~

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What American painter explained that his imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, and maps of the US?

What cartoonist/illustrator, his provocative work rejected by editors in London, began traveling back and forth to the US in search of a more hospitable publishing environment?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/12~

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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.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/6~

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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.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/19~

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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.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/17~

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Which artist didn’t start painting until he was 26 but went on to become arguably Sri Lanka’s most celebrated 20th Century artist?

Which English designer wrote “What Is a Designer”, containing reminders of the importance of sound craftsmanship and moral responsibilities?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/13~

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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.

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