Monthly Archives: July 2016
No 400 Erich Heckel
“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke, was born on July 31, 1883. … Continue reading
No 399 Henry Moore
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” Henry Moore, an Anglo-Irish sculptor and artist, best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures … Continue reading
No 398 Marcel Duchamp
“A painting that doesn’t shock isn’t worth painting.” Marcel Duchamp, commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the arts in the opening decades of the … Continue reading
No 397 Judith Leyster
“All great art is a visual form of prayer.” Sister Wendy Beckett. Today is the birthday of Judith Leyster who was born on July 28, 1609. She was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose entire oeuvre was attributed to Frans Hals until 1893. … Continue reading
No 396 George Grosz
“The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.” George Grosz was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, Germany, … Continue reading
No 395 Maxfield Parrish
“It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.” Maxfield Parrish, an American painter and illustrator known for his distinctive saturated hues … Continue reading
No 394 Alphonse Mucha
“Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message” Alphonse Mucha, a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style, was born on July 24, 1860 and died on July 14, 1939.
No 393 Alexander Calder
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.” Alexander Calder, an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that … Continue reading
No 392 Edward Hopper
“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.” Edward Hopper, a prominent American realist painter and printmaker who was most popularly known for his oil paintings, was born on July 22, 1882.
No 391 Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” Edgar Degas, a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his … Continue reading
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