Born #onthisday1804 Fitz Hugh Lane American #painter & #printmaker of Luminism style with its use of pervasive light & haccentuated perception of reality carefully controlled by design combining distinctive sweep of sky + maritime themes elevated perspective & attention to detail
Born #onthisday1868 genius Russian #painter & #arttheorist credited as pioneering #AbstractArt Taught at Bauhaus school of art 1922 to 1933 when Nazis closed it Expressed the communion between artist & viewer as being available to both the senses & the mind (synesthesia)
Born #onthisday1803 Hector Berlioz French Romantic #classicalmusic composer best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique Harold in Italy & Grande messe des morts & 3 operas Berlioz made significant contributions to modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation
Born #onthisday1890 Mark Tobey American #painter of densely structured compositions inspired by Asian calligraphy resembled #AbstractExpressionism & creator of "white writing" overlay of white calligraphic symbols on abstract field of thousands of interwoven brush strokes
Born #onthisday1891 Mark Gertier British #artist #painted society #portraits & #stilllife Gertier’s sense of self & egotism conflicted with prevailing patronage system & circle he moved in hindering his career hence later works showed a harsh edge influenced by often poor health
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
… Kandinsky viewed abstract art as ideal visual mode to express "inner necessity" of artists & 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)
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