Born #onthisday1909 Joop Moesman Dutch #Surrealist #painter worked for Dutch National Railways until he retired Emerged as Holland’s foremost surrealistic painter works so impressive they were twice removed from public exhibitions as authorities were afraid of the public reaction
Born #onthisday1832 French artist Gustave Dore French #artist #sculptor #printmaker #illustrator & #cartoonist Prodigy at 5 & #caricaturist for French paper Le journal pour rire at 15 Wood-engraving was primary medium & won commissions to illustrate new illustrated Bible + …
Born #onthisday1878 Augustus John Welsh #painter #draughtsman & #etcher Important exponent of #PostImpressionism in the U.K. Known initially for his #drawings & #etchings by 1920s he was Britain's leading #portaitpainter recognized for his psychological insights into his subjects
… Qi Baishi theorized that "paintings must be something between likeness and unlikeness, much like today's vulgarians, but not like to cheat popular people”
John Howley Australian #painter Core work reflects Fantastic Art genre characterised by a constant search for new modes to comment on contemporary culture Influenced Renaissance masters + German #Expressionism & Australian Social Realism movement
Born #onthisday1869 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée French #Rococo #painter Won Grand Prix de Rome 4 painting (1749) elected member of Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1755) Career blossomed in Paris leading to appointment as court painter to Elizabeth Empress of Russia
Born #onthisday1883 Janet Cumbrae-Stewart Australian #painter taught by Frederick McCubbin & Exhibited with Victorian Artists Society & member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters Spent 1920s & 1930s painting & exhibiting in Italy France & Britain Returned to Australia in 1939
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
… Signature works include: Winged Hero (1905) Hammamet with Its Mosque (1914) The Twittering Machine (1922) Affected Place (1922) Highway and Byways (1928) & Death and Fire (1940)
Born #onthisday1904 Paul Cadmus #etcher & #painter Widely recognized 4 egg tempera paintings depicting urban settings & gritty social interactions Sailors & Floozies = art as satire Created highly finished #drawings of #nude male figures combining eroticism with social commentary