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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?

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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?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/7~

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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.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 7/6~

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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?

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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?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/29~

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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.

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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?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/23~

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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.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/20~

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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.

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