Born #onthisday1871 Emily Carr Canadian #artist painter drew inspiration from Pacific Northwest Coasts’ Indigenous peoples One of first Canadian #painters to explore #Modernist & #PostModernist style Shift from Indigenous themes to landscapes particularly forests won recognition
… Sleeping (1995) sold 4 $33.3 million (2008) Christie’s 2015 New York auction sold Benefits Supervisor Resting for $56.2 million
Born #onthisday18881 Albert Gleizes French #artist art theoretician philosopher & self-proclaimed #Cubism founder influenced School of Paris founding member of Section d’Or Der Sturm artistic groups & co-wrote 1st significant treatise Du Cubisme on Cubism Ideas adopted by Bauhaus
Born #onthisday1756 Cornelius van Spaendonck Dutch #artist Head of Sèvres porcelain works Became member Académie des Beaux-Arts (1789) Prdeominantly #painted in oils & gouache & is remembered for his lush evocative #stilllifes of flowers Left 29 paintings in studio at his death
… Viewed abstract art as ideal visual mode to express "inner necessity" & communicate universal human emotions Signature works inc: Der Blaue Reiter (1903) Der Blaue Berg (1908-09) Composition IV (1911) Moscow I (Red Square) (1916) Several Circles (1926) & Composition X (1939)
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
Born #onthisday1883 José Orozco Mexican #artist #caricaturist specializing in painting large scale political murals personified Mexican Mural Renaissance Most complex of Mexican muralists fond of human suffering as theme but less realistic & more fascinated by machines
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
Born #onthisday1503 Bronzino Florentine #mannerist and court #painter to Cosimo I de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany Bronzino was predominantly a #portraitist but also #painted elegant stylish religious & allegorical subjects inc. his renowned Venus Cupid Folly & Time (c. 1544–45)