Born #onthisday1924 Mimi Parent Canadian #Surrealist & #Automatism #artist Work is renowned for its exploration of symbolism & metaphorical adaption of objects + her 3D tableaux boxes featuring mythology folklore lunar & solar forces Illustrated books for Guy Cabanel Jose Pierre
Born #onthisday1740 Johan Sergel Swedish #Neoclassical #sculptor Signature monuments inc. sculptures Diomedes Stealing the Palladium The Muse of History Recording the Deeds of Gustavus Adolphus & "Bust of Gustavus III also drew sequential picture stories early form of #comic
Born #onthisday1788 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow German #Romantic #artist One of leading #painters of Nazarene movement Signature masterpiece was the Wise and Foolish Virgins Directed internationally acclaimed Dusseldorf School 1826 - 1859 until deposed by naturalism movement
Born #onthisday1866 Marie Tuck Australian #artist & art educator Early member of Adelaide Easel Club Studied in Paris under expatriate Australian Rupert Bunny Exhibited #Impressionistic #landscapes #figures & #portraits in oils Developed deep love of French culture & people
Born #onthisday1925 Bengt Lindström one of Sweden’s Sweden's most recognised contemporary #artists Characteristic style adopted distinctive colours palette & often included contorted faces on his subjects Today best known for outdoor mural paintings & colorful sculptures
… switched to painting from life & soft line work & bold colours Japanese art favoured desire to paint ideal perfection of a subject
Born #onthisday1893 Yasuo Kuniyoshi Japanese-American #painter #lithographer #etcher #printmaker x 14 Known for #stilllife paintings of objects & figurative subjects #nudes & female circus performers Adopted zinc plate lithography in 1922 Made frequent changes to technique & …
… Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass (1801) & Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces (1824)