Born #onthisday1690 Nicolas Lancret French #artist master of #Rococo art form & brilliant #painter of balls fairs & weddings showing French social tastes & manners under the regent Orleans Later his pastels palette deftly captured a sense of harmony between art & nature …
Born #onthisday1820 Joseph Wolf German #artist & the father of wildlife painting At British Museum from 1848 Wolf’s accurate lifelike illustrations made him preferred illustrator for explorers & naturalists Lanseer described him as "...best all-round animal artist who ever lived"
Born #onthisday1877 May Gibbs MBE whimsical pioneering Australian female cartoonist children's #author #illustrator & enchanting #cartoonist best known for Snugglepot and Cuddlepie & her iconic timeless Gumnut Babies series of illustrations Gibbs' 1st gumnut babies book Gumnut…
Born #onthisday1897 Elise Blumann German born #artist achieved recognition as an Australian #Expressionist #painter Works investigate unique light & colour of Western Australian landscape Co-founded the Art Group discussion group promoting modernist ideas in art & art education
… "International exhibition of experimental art" COBRA’s approach was based on spontaneity & experimentation & drew their inspiration from primitive art forms children’s drawings & the work of Paul Klee & Joan Miró
Published #onthisday1945 Einar Hakonarson Icelandic #Expressionist #figurative #painter Work in oil on canvass #sculpture #enamel #mosaics & #stainedglass share disciplined composition Won international awards for #printmaking Credited with returning figure to Icelandic painting
Born #onthisday1930 Roman Cieślewicz Polish French #artist #graphicdesigner Produced "reviev of panic information" - "Kamikaze" No. 1 (1976) & "Kamikaze 2" with Agnes B (1991) Won Grand Prix International Exhibition of Film Posters (1964) Grand Prix for Posters (1979)
Born #onthisday1596 Jan Van Goyen masterful Dutch #landscape #painter & a pioneer of naturalistic landscape in early 17th-century Holland A landscape artist with an eye for the genre subjects of everyday life Tonal technique was much imitated His free flowing seascapes of 1650s…
… criticised for superficiality Work showcases travel (Middle East Venice Tyrol Corfu Montana Maine & Florida) Commissions used #portraitures grand style while #landscapes flashed #Impressionism Later focused #murals & #pleinair Notoriously under-valued by earlier art historians
Born #onthisday1638 Elisabetta Sirani prolific Italian #painter specializing in historical themes Master of #Baroque style at just 19 produced 200+ paintings 15 etchings hundreds of drawings 13 public altarpieces Employed dramatic contrasts of light & shade virtuoso brushwork …