Tag Archives: Visual Arts
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/4~
What major Hudson River School painter’s home, studio, and designed landscape opened as a New York State Historic Site in June 1967?
What contemporary ceramist has been awarded a Fellow of the RCA and an OBE, and seeks to stretch the definition of the pot by exploring the relationships of form and surface?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/04/may-4/
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.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/03/may-3/
Leonardo da Vinci: Died May 2, 1519
Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci
by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1818 • Petit Palais, Paris, France
We know that Leonardo, who had come to France at the invitation of Francis I, died in Amboise in 1519. The undoubtedly fictitious story of his death in the presence of the king comes from The Lives by Vasari. This work, which appeared in 1550, celebrates the excellence of Italian painting following an ascending curve that starts with Cimabue and ends with Michelangelo and Raphael.
FROM http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/francis-i-receives-last-breaths-leonardo-da-vinci
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/2~
What photographer’s career began with his close-up portrait of Ezra Pound in 1928?
Which photographer shot the famous image of Albert Einstein in a pensive moment?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/02/may-2/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/1~
This influential American landscape painter’s body of work is comprised of over 1,150 paintings, watercolors, and sketches.
This American painter, who worked mostly in Paris and Capri, avoided the current trends of fauvism and cubism in favoring the style of the aesthetes in her work.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/01/may-1/
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?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/30/april-30/
April 29, 1945: U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau
“In 1944 Zoran Music was arrested by the Gestapo in Venice and deported to the concentration campo in Dachau, an experience that marked his life and his art thereafter. In 1945 he made a series of drawings depicting scenes related to the Holocaust: cremation ovens, hanged men and piles of corpses. These drawings would be the inspiration, in the 1970s, for the series Nous ne sommes pas les derniers (We Are Not the Last)…”
FROM http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/nous-ne-sommes-pas-derniers-we-are-not-last
When we were in the camp, people would often declare that this sort of thing could never happen again. When the war is over, they said, a better world will come into being and such horrors will never recur. . . But then, as time went by, I saw the same sort of thing starting to happen again all over the world—in Vietnam, in the Gulag, in Latin America—everywhere. And I realized that what we had said in those days—that we would be the last people to experience such things—was not true: the truth is that we were not the last. – Zoran Music
FROM http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/an-artists-response-to-evil-we-are-not-the-last-by-zoran-music#about
Zoran Mušič on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Mušič
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/29~
What artist was apprenticed to a miniature-painter, then to a theatre-scene-painter, eventually becoming a teacher and a painter in watercolors and in oils?
What artist is best remembered as a master printer who created illustrations and compositions with his experiments in type?
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/29/april-29/
Artist Birthday Quiz for 4/28~
The term this photographer invented to describe himself – Bildjournalist – is still the German word for photojournalist.
In 1960 this artist patented a color of his own invention, which he called International (__) Blue after himself.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/04/28/april-28/
