Tag Archives: Visual Arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/22~
The only American officially associated with the group later known as the Impressionists, this artist exhibited her work in four of their eight exhibitions, in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1886.
This famous Belgian illustrator is often considered to be the most influential European comic artist ever and his “clear line” style was widely copied by new generation of comic artists
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/21~
Which German artist of the Renaissance period revolutionized printmaking, elevating it to the level of an independent art form?
Which artist, best known for his paintings teeming with exotic flora and fauna, actually never left France despite stories to the contrary?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/20~
Which German baroque sculptor also worked as an architect and built many state buildings in Berlin during his role as Court Architect?
Which photojournalist and his wife became LIFE magazine’s first husband and wife photographer-reporter team to be sent overseas?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/19~
What Italian Renaissance artist, known for ceramic sculpture with colorful glazes, was a member of Florence’s most prestigious family of terracotta sculptors?
What painter from a famous family of early American artists was able to maintain a career for about sixty years and support herself without marrying, unusual in the 1800s?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/18~
This 17th Century etcher and draftsman, who created thousands of drawings and prints, was basically self-taught.
This contemporary American realist artist is known for her large still lifes, many depicting light bouncing off reflective surfaces.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/17~
The watercolor medium fascinated this painter throughout his career, and in 1925 he and two other artists founded the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, which continues actively to this day.
This self-taught Virginian ceramist has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and other museums and private collections.
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/16~
Which post-war Soviet Union painter, despite the mixed critical reception to his work, was able to lead a highly successful career due to his many supporters in the state cultural bureaucracy?
Which contemporary French fashion designer enrolled in art history and museum studies, planning to become a museum curator, until he realized that his true calling was fashion and costume design?
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Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/15~
What American painter explained that his imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, and maps of the US?
What cartoonist/illustrator, his provocative work rejected by editors in London, began traveling back and forth to the US in search of a more hospitable publishing environment?
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Photographer Captures 100 Female Artists In Their Homes And Studios
A great portrait is more than just a frozen reflection of the subject’s appearance. It’s a chance moment, blanketed in natural light, in which the subject’s authentic self is visible in her expression, her stance, her aura. A great portrait blurs the line between a subject and her surroundings, all contributing equally to the overall impression of a singular human being.
Photographer Barbara Yoshida captured not one great portrait, but 100. And to make it all the more glorious, her subjects are all female artists, groundbreaking in their own right.
Source: Photographer Captures 100 Female Artists In Their Homes And Studios | HuffPost
