Born #onthisday1960 Jean Michel Bisquiat gritty street-smart #graffitiart successfully transcended "downtown" origins to blaze across international art gallery circuit emerging as 1 of most celebrated & most commercial American "naif" painters of #Neo-Expressionist movement …
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
Born #onthisday1924 Clifton Pugh AO Australian #artist German #Expressionism strong influence one of Australia's most renowned & commercially successful #painters won Archibald Prize 3 times Best known for #landscapes & #portraits constant theme nature’s savage cyclical rhythms
Born #onthisday1904 Paul Cadmus #etcher & #painter Widely recognized 4 egg tempera paintings depicting urban settings & gritty social interactions Sailors & Floozies = art as satire Created highly finished #drawings of #nude male figures combining eroticism with social commentary
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
… viewed abstract art as ideal visual mode to express inner call of artist & communicate human emotions & ideas 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 #onthisday1886 Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese–French #painter #printmaker & #etcher applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings Foujita was "most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century" Foujita’s Book of Cats 1 of Top 500 rare books