Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/7~

What experimental artist, known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles, was one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation?

What Quebec painter and sculptor was the only Canadian artist involved with the seminal post-World War II École de Paris (School of Paris)?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/6~

This artist’s 1893 essay, Das Problem der Form (The Problem of Form), asserted that truth is revealed in form, with subject matter of relatively minor importance.

This Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer was one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/5~

Which 18th Century Italian painter, from a family of artists, is considered to be among the last practitioners — along with his brothers — of the classic Venetian school of painting?

Which English sculptor and designer, being not as well known as some of his contemporaries, has been described as “the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/4~

What French painter, one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France, portrayed the dignity of agricultural laborers?

What American artist’s paintings, illustrations, sculptures, and writing played a major role in creating our popular image of the West?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/24~

Which French artist, most famous for his work as a sculptor of animals, made his critical and public mark with pieces representing predatory violence in the wild?

Which Dutch painter and sculptor, whose aristocratic family opposed her desire to become an artist, began to study art after she left her husband in 1923?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/23~

Which Belgian painter, introduced to the Surrealists in 1936, developed his own variation on Surrealism which changed very little until blindness forced him to give up painting in 1986?

Which American sculptor, known for her monumental assemblages, struggled financially for decades and was well into her 60s before she could depend on a steady income from her work?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/17~

This Eighteenth century French etcher and painter is credited with being the first artist to successfully introduce aquatint into his etched and engraved plates.

This American sculptor known for her works in bronze often turned to dancers for her sculptural themes, employing them to pose for her with musical accompaniment.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/16~

What artist and poet — a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916 — referred to himself as “Hans” when he spoke in German and as “Jean” when he spoke in French?

What German-born American painter had his first one-man show at Harvard University while his paintings were being removed from German museums and destroyed as “degenerate art”?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/15~

Which American architectural sculptor (whose work ornamented more than 30 buildings) also designed and sculpted medals, the Newbury and Caldecott being his most famous?

Which American artist is best known for his vivid, frequently surrealist, depictions of Southern life that focus on the social issues of racial injustice and violence during the 1940s?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/13~

What sculptor’s fireplace mantel repair work for a stonecutting firm in Baltimore so impressed his customer William Walters, who would go on to found the Walters Art Museum, that he sponsored the artist?

What painter, sculptor, and printmaker, having found wild success with his LOVE image, chose to remove himself from the New York art world in 1978 and settled on the remote island of Vinalhaven in Maine?

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