Born #onthisday1918 Charles White American #artist recognised for chronicling triumphs & struggles of his community in #paintings #drawing #murals #lithographs & a beacon for African American artists Best Known for #mural The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy
Born #onthisday1916 Dr. S.M. Pandit Indian #Realist school #painter & one of most popular #artists of his time Topics varied from classical Indian literature & contemporary cinema Infused rare blend of artistic virtuosity & Bollywood glamour in portrayal of romantic characters
Born #onthisday1908 Jean Bellette Australian #Modernist #artist Frequently painted scenes influenced by Greek tragedies of Sophocles & Euripides & Homer’s epics Only woman to have won 2x Sulman Prize For Whom the Bell Tolls (1942) & Iphigenia in Tauris (1944)
Born #onthisday1728 Anton Raphael Mengs German Bohemian #Rococo style #painter in mid-18th century emerged as one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting which replaced Rococo as Europe’s dominant style of painting Produced some of best work for Charles III of Spain
Born #onthisday1906 Ivor Pengelly Francis AM Australian #artist #Artcritic teacher Labelled South Australia's foremost #Surrealist #painter Known 4 #Abstractart #landscapes similarly much-admired Art critic for The News & early member of South Australia’s Contemporary Art Society
Born #onthisday1863 Joaquín Sorolla king of the Spanish Sun for his dexterous representation of #portraitist & #landscape & monumental works with social & historical themes under Spain’s iconic bright sunlight & sunlit water won Medal of Honour 1900 Paris Universal Exposition
… lawyers and the judiciary works explore France’s political & social life tracing 1930 Revolution to collapse of 2nd Napoleonic Empire (1870) Created 100+ #sculptures 500 #paintings 1,000 #drawings 1,000 #woodcutprints & 4,000 #lithographs
…Renoir's art is famed for his masterful use of saturated colour & vibrant light often zeroing in on intimate & candid compositions Renoir suggested used freely brushed touches of colour to suggest details of a scene His figures softly fuse with one another & their surroundings.
Born #onthisday1743 Joseph Banks GCB PRS English botanist naturalist #artist #illustrator Made name on 1766 natural-history Newfoundland & Labrador expedition Accompanied Captain Cook on board the Endeavour 1st great voyage of discovery (1768–1771)
Born #onthisday1543 Kanō Eitoku Japanese Azuchi-Momoyama period #painter & patriarch of Kanō school contributed rich symbolism of "monumental style" (taiga) to Kanō range characterized by bold fast brushwork emphasis on foreground & large motifs relative to his pictorial space