Born #onthisday1883 Marie Laurencin French #painter & #printmaker Influential artist in Paris’ #avantgarde movement & #Cubists associated with Section d'Or Worked with #painting #watercolour #drawing & prints Distinctive style of #abstraction around groups of women & animals
Born #onthisday1888 Nils Dardel Swedish #Post-Impressionist #painter Inspired by #Fauvist with preference for a pure palette & Japanese #woodcuts Also experimented with #Cubism painting several #cityscapes in the style & explored #pointillism’s clear motifs & strong colorus
Born #onthisday1881 Pablo Picasso iconic Spanish #painter #sculptor #ceramicist #printmaker & #setdesigner1 of 20th-century’s most influential #artists co-founder of #Cubism co-inventor of #collage inventor of constructed sculpture Serial experimenter with radical new art styles
Born #onthisday1875 Konstantin Yuon Russian #painter & #setdesigner associated with the Mir Iskusstva & later co-founded Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia & Union of Russian Artists he retained his own distinctive style & designed sets for Moscow Art & Maly Theatres
Born #onthisday1581 Domenichino Italian #Baroque #painter belonging to Bolognese School Work is illustrative of classic-idealist art form popular at the time & intended to surpass imperfections of nature by developing an Idealised Concept of Beauty by drawing on ancient concept
Born #onthisday1919 Stanislav Halpern Polish Australian #painter & #sculptor Known for bold semi-abstract works exploring street life Later experimented with pure abstraction & #Expressionistic #portraiture after travelling in Europe Friend fellow artist Arthur Boyd praised work
Born #onthisday1620 Aelbert Cuyp prominent Dutch #painter during their Golden Age specializing in #landscapes Became famous for masterful detailed large-scale paintings of Dutch riverside scenes capturing shimmering golden rays of early morning or late afternoon light
Born #onthisday1962 Bruno Dutot French-born Australian #painter emigrated to Australia in 1987 & infused Sydney with French style by painting walls Artistic style evolved from red dress he draw in Paris to public mural of 'Oucha' a woman with cat he is best known for
Born #onthisday1712 Francesco Guardi Italian #artist member of the Fine Art Academy of Venice & his veduta (cityscapes) show him to be a #painter of the Venetian School with his brothers Guardi is seen as one of the last practitioners of the classic Venetian school of painting
Born #onthisday1518 Tintoretto Italian #Mannerist #painter & masterful exponent of the Venetian Renaissance school Renowned for the boldness & dynamism of his brushwork & speed he worked at Known as Il Furioso (The Furious) work is characterised by dramatic gestures muscular …