Tag Archives: Sculpture
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/11~
What artist, the leading French sculptor of his time, created works that form a prelude to the art of his student and admirer Auguste Rodin?
What artist went to Hollywood to work with Alfred Hitchcock on the film Spellbound, crafting a dream sequence full of psychoanalytic symbols?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/3~
This Florentine painter was taken under the care of Agnolo Bronzino, a family friend, after his father died; his young life was spent in Bronzino’s workshop in Florence.
This sculptor’s “Orpheus and Apollo,” commissioned in 1961, is a 5-ton, 190-foot-long constellation of polished bronze bars connected by wires that hangs over the lobby at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/30~
What architect played a prominent role in the battle over the introduction of modern architecture in Berlin during the 1920s?
Which Irish artist’s stone carvings of 1938–9 constitute an important contribution to Surrealist sculpture?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/25~
This artist created a vocabulary of various signs and marks that read metaphorically, rather than according to any form of traditional iconography.
This Dutch-born artist was part of the original CoBrA group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) founded at the Café de l’Hotel Notre Dame in Paris.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/20~
What artist is best known for creating the massive marble sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial?
What artist was given a Guggenheim International Award for his mural designs in the UNESCO building in Paris?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/18~
During the First World War, this painter was appointed as an official war artist and produced a number of large-scale allegorical works.
In 1930 this artist became the first American modernist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/16~
What French artist, Marie Antoinette’s favorite painter for a decade, published her memoirs in 1835–37?
What artist is probably best known for his sculptures built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/12~
This Belgian sculptor and painter was one of the principal social-realist artists of the late 19th century in Europe.
In 1932 this photographer became one of the co-founders of the Group f/64, which aimed to “define photography as an art form by a simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods”.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/9~
What artist was good friends with Somerset Maugham, painting him 18 times and appearing as a character in a number of his stories?
What artist experimented with optical patterns since the 1930s and was widely accepted as Op-Art’s “grandfather”?
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