Born #onthisday1939 Brett Whiteley #artoftheday Australian #avantgarde #artist represented in major Australian gallery collections twice won Archibald, Wynne & Sulman prizes Signature works: Thebe’s Revenge Summer at Carcoar Remembering Lao Tse (1967) Woman In the Bath (1967)
Born #onthisday1856 Mikhail Vrubel Russian #artist was born on this day in 1856 who spanned art genres inc. #painting #graphicdesign #sculpture & #setdesign At beginning of 20th-century Vrubel's art became an organic part of Russian #ArtNouveau
Born #onthisday1882 Arthur Carles American #Modernist #painter & one of most brilliant colourists in history of American art Highly intuitive he saw art as an affair of the emotions His style spanned #Tonalism to #Impressionism & foresaw emergence of #AbstractExpressionism
Born #onthisday1872 Piet Mondrian Dutch #painter theoretician & one of greatest 20th century artists Pioneer of #abstractart utopian art searched for universal values & aesthetics Changed artistic direction from figurative to an abstract style reduced to simple geometric elements
Born #onthisday1863 Joaquín Sorolla king of the Spanish Sun for his dexterous representation of #portraitist & #landscape & monumental works with social & historical themes under Spain’s iconic bright sunlight & sunlit water won Medal of Honour 1900 Paris Universal Exposition
…Renoir's art is famed for his masterful use of saturated colour & vibrant light often zeroing in on intimate & candid compositions Renoir suggested used freely brushed touches of colour to suggest details of a scene His figures softly fuse with one another & their surroundings.
Born #onthisday1841 Pierre-Auguste Renoir popular French #impressionist #painter with knack for capturing movement of light & shadow & an eye for beauty & Celebrated colourist with best known for paintings of bustling late 19th-century Parisian modernity & leisure activities …
Born #onthisday1879 Kazimir Malevich Russian #avantgarde #artist pioneer of geometric #abstractart & originator of #suprematist movement trying to develop a form of expression removed from natural forms & subject matter to access "the supremacy of pure feeling & spirituality”
Born #onthisday1899 Dechko Uzunov Bulgarian #artist & member of Native Art Society achieved recognition for his powerful #painting especially his #landscapes #portraits monumental art #drawing applied graphics & #decorativeart were distinguished by free brushwork & rich colors
Born #onthisday1633 Jan de Baen Dutch #portrait #painter during the Dutch Golden Age Hugely popular he painted the most distinguished people of his time Worked in Charles II’s exiled court & at The Hague from 1660 Also painted #cityscapes #history paintings & #genrepaintings