Tag Archives: Sculptor

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/7~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

An important pioneer of postwar abstraction, this Belgian artist is best known for his paintings and sculptures primarily organized by vertical lines.

Born in 1947 in an East LA housing project, this artist was a high school senior when a friend gave him a photography textbook that had been left in a bathroom.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/07/july-7/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/6~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

Which artist began his career modeling designs for Wedgwood, later becoming an illustrator and a prolific sculptor of funerary monuments and reliefs?

Which third-generation member of a family of artists once worked in the studio of his friend Andy Warhol, whose portrait he painted?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/07/06/july-6/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/30~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

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/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/29~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

This sculptor produced lifelike portrait busts such as Andrew Jackson — and idealized figures such as The Greek Slave (1843) which helped to overcome the public’s dislike of female nudity in art.

This African-American photographer who lived in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance had a gift for capturing the most influential individuals and riveting artistic moments of the era.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/29/june-29/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/23~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

This American painter best known for her portraits of children once noted, “Although I was born in 1865 in San Francisco, it was not until sixteen years later that I started to live, for in 1881 I entered the National Academy of Design”.

In 1897 this Swedish sculptor made what he thought was a temporary stop in Paris on his way to Chile, where he was due to manage a school of gymnastics; instead, he remained in Paris, where he studied art.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/23/june-23/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/20~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

This French-born sculptor left for Copenhagen in 1753 to execute a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick V of Denmark and stayed there for twenty years, becoming director of the Danish Academy of Art.

This artist, best known for his collages, worked in several genres and media including: Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, & what came to be known as installation art.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/20/june-20/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/19~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

Which French painter associated with the Dada movement also wrote plays, poetry, manifestos and opera librettos?

Which American sculptor is best known for her abstract and figurative metal statues created after her return to the United States from France in 1940?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/19/june-19/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/18~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

In his later years this 16th century Italian architect and sculptor was influenced by Counter-Reformation piety, repudiating his earlier nude sculptures as lustful and designing several austere buildings for the Jesuits.

This painter and illustrator was also a writer for Life and Judge, and even wrote and acted in silent films, but his most famous achievement is his painting of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/18/june-18/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/10~

Posted in Artist Birthday Quiz by

This pioneering figure in the history of modernism flouted the authority of the state by publicly refusing the award of the Legion of Honor, declaring his independence from any form of government.

This painter was one of the principal exponents of Fauvism, however during his lifetime he went on to adopt Cubism and eventually Classism.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/10/june-10/