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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/8~

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This English animal painter was originally a groom who, at age 22 and wanting a portrait of one of the horses, bought a manual and oil-colors and produced one himself; his master bought it and encouraged him to pursue painting.

This American artist — known for her work in sculpture, painting, and collage — had an an endless fascination with the Universe and requested that her cremated remains be launched into space in some future mission of Celestis, Inc.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/4~

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What German artist contributed significantly to wall design, painting, sculpture, print graphics, advertising, and the stage for the first major exhibition of Bauhaus products in Weimar in 1923?

What Russian-born editor and artist was the editorial director of Condé Nast publications from 1962 to 1994 and is credited with inventing the look of the modern fashion magazine?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/3~

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What American printmaker, painter, and sculptor developed the collagraph, a layered cardboard relief print process that could be carved like a woodcut?

What cartoonist’s most famous character was originally called “Spider”, a college student who became popular when he enlisted in the army during the Korean War?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/25~

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After she entered her 80s this American artist, well known for her vivid Surrealist imagery, began to concentrate on writing: producing a novel, an autobiography, and poems that appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Yale Review and The Paris Review.

From 1935 to 1941, this renowned cartoonist worked for Walt Disney as a story man and animator, with credits on Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia; his work also appeared in comic books for the company that became DC Comics, and for Dell’s Animal Comics.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/22~

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What artist’s most famous work, created in 1876 and originally titled Yankee Doodle, was so popular that he painted a number of different versions during the remainder of his life?

What sculptor is remembered for his achievements in the development of Cubism, transforming the formal characteristics of the style from painting into three-dimensional works?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/19~

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This house-painter and handyman was the center of a furor in 1927 when he became the first living self-taught artist to be recognized by the American art establishment, upon his acceptance to the Carnegie International exhibition.

One of the members of the Bloomsbury circle, this painter, sculptor, writer, and educator began to study pottery at the age of 25 and in 1935 went to Staffordshire to acquire the necessary technical knowledge.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/17~

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Which American sculptor was best known for her genre statuettes, contributing to the popularity of small bronze sculpture in America?

Which German-American photographer began her career at age twelve, assisting her father in the darkroom and working in the family studio?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/15~

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This 18th Century Italian landscape painter, whose Arcadian scenes with picturesque peasants earned him an international reputation, often included a figure with a gourd bottle because zucco is Italian for “gourd”.

This contemporary sculptor has moved between laminated wood, stainless steel, corrugated iron, polycarbonate, marble, clay, vinyl, foam and leather; he explained in 2005, “Changing materials from one work to the next is a way of beginning again each time”.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/13~

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What Russian-born American sculptor specialized in the carving of allegorical and mythological figures, including Europa and the Bull, a fountain group that was a feature of the 1939 New York World’s Fair?

What American photographer of 80s and 90s fashion and celebrities concentrated on black-and-white photography which often portrayed his subjects in the visual language of classical Greek sculpture?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/12~

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What turn-of-the-20th-century painter, although renowned for his winged figures of the “infinite beauty of angelic women”, never went to church and believed that formal religion smacked of hypocrisy and narrowness?

What sculptor cast his best-known work, the winged statue in Piccadilly Circus generally (though mistakenly) known as Eros, in aluminum — the first use of that metal on a public statue?

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