… bold brushwork Became a model for 19th century #Impressionist & #Realist painters Picasso Salvador Dali & Francis Bacon re-interpreted some of his iconic images in the 20th century tributes culminating in Las Meninas (1656) his masterpiece
Born #onthisday1881 Natalia Goncharova Russian #Avantgarde #artist #painter #illustrator Founding member of Jack of Diamonds (1909–1911) Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group + more radical Donley’s Tail (1912–1913) & co-invented #Royonism (1912–1914) with Larionov
Born #onthisday1872 W. Heath Robinson English #cartoonist #illustrator & #artist best known for drawing whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives "Heath Robinson" entered popular usage during WWI to describe any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance
… & 1930s with vibrant rich & often dramatic colours laid on with a palette knife
Born #onthisday1915 Harold Freedman O.A.M. Australian #artist renowned #lithographer #illustrator official WW2 RAAF War Artist #historypaintings State artist of Victoria Created massive History of Military Aviation #mural at Canberra War Memorial
Born #onthisday1782 John E Ferneley #artoftheday one of great British equine #portrait #artists #painter of sought after stylized portraits of sporting horses & "scurries" panoramic paintings showing a series of hunting scenes he exhibited between 1806 & 1853 at Royal Academy
Born #onthisday1898 Tamara de Lempicka Polish-born #painter Best known for her signature polished #ArtDeco portraits of wealthy patrons aristocrats & for her supremely stylized paintings of nudes 1st award was 1st prize at Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux
Born #onthisday1882 George Braque major 20th-century French #painter collagist, #draughtsman #printmaker & #sculptor contributed to art history with #fauvism from 1906 co-founded #cubism & serene meditative still lifes with low-key colour harmonies & use colour line & texture
Born #onthisday1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German #Expressionist #painter & #printmaker Driving force behind of Die Brücke The Bridge key group laying foundation of #Expressionism Human figure central to Kirchner's art & used flat areas of unbroken unmixed color & simplified forms
Born #onthisday1964 Zsuzsa Mathe Hungarian #painter & #visualartist One of international New Wave modern #artists had 1st exhibition at 18 Founded #Transrealism pre-runner to #Goth subculture Known for New Romantic (1984) The Entry of Sedah (1986) Wo bist du? (1987)