Born #onthisday1804 John Gould British ornithologist & bird #artist Published a series of monographs on birds illustrated by sublime plates produced with assistance of his wife & other artists Called father of bird study in Australia Worked with Darwin identifying finches
Born #onthisday1924 Mimi Parent Canadian #Surrealist & #Automatism #artist Work 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 #onthisday1964 Geoffrey Ricardo Australian visual #artist Work spans #sculpture #printmaking #etching #painting & #lithography Known for #figurative work wrapped in a narrative language Regular artist in residence at Art Vault Mildura Winner Lorne Sculpture Exhibition (2009)
… drew on pool of sketched impressions for large oil canvases Produced 100+ oil paintings from 1st two trips For 1st time Canadians glimpsed peoples & lifestyles of Upper & Lower Canada a vast & barely known territory
… switched to painting from life & soft line work & bold colours Japanese art favoured desire to paint ideal perfection of a subject
Born #onthisday1889 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 & …
Born #onthisday1748 Jacques-Louis David French #Neoclassical #painter Considered the preeminent painter of his era Emergence of his intellectual style of art ushered in migration from #Rococo frippery towards classical austerity Signature works inc. Death of Marat (1793) …
Born #onthisday1905 Leonard Fox Australian #painter #writer #journalist social activist produced swath of left-wing propagandist posters & covers for his booklets such as Australia's Guilty Men Best known for On guard at Eureka (1854) accepted for Sulman Prize (1955)
Born #onthisday19833 Edward Burne-Jones English #Pre-Raphaelite #painter & #designer & leading star of new #Aesthetic Movement Helped rejuvenate Britain’s #stainedglass tradition Considered art’s value was as object of impassioned beauty triggering a sensual & romantic response
Born #onthisday1924 David Boyd OAM Australian #artist & member of Boyd artistic dynasty Widely known as leading Australian potters before #painting controversial symbolic paintings on Australian explorers focused on the tragic history of Aboriginal Tasmanians (1957)