Born #onthisday1834 Edgar Degas French #impressionist #painter #sculptor #printmaker & #drawing famous 4 obsessive depiction ballet dancers One of seminal group #artists intrigued by challenge of capturing interplay of light in urban leisure scenes Édouard Manet & Mme. Manet …
Born #onthisday1756 Thomas Rowlandson #historyofart English popular #caricaturist of social life John Bull Smollett Goldsmith Sterne #illustrator Primarily employed by art publisher Rudolph Ackermann ‘The Schoolmaster's Tour’ (1809) most popular of Rowlandson’s works Tour of Dr…
Born #onthisday1938 Alan Aldridge British artist #graphicdesigner #illustrator Best known for psychedelic artwork for Penguin #sciencefiction books & The Beatles & The Who record covers creating era’s graphic style Work characterised by soft airbrushing & a flowing cartoony style
Born #onthisday1914 Fernand Leduc Canadian #abstractexpressionist #painter & major figure in 1940s & 1950s Quebec contemporary art scene co-founded Les Automatists later experimented with spontaneous & gestural nonfigurative painting with colour contrasts & interactions
… startling likenesses people & objects defined America’s realist art tradition Visual legacy spanned 19th century shaped American taste for art as diverse as Fitz Henry Lane & William Harnett Pioneered private exhibitions marketed his prints to mass audiences
Born #onthisday1892 Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster #artists Made name in 1925 with his Revue Negre poster launching his mistress Josephine Baker’s career Worked for forty+ years in theatre creating promotional posters numerous sets & costumes
… 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,
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