May 19 - the birthday of Mary Cassatt - American painter and printmaker. She was born in #Pennsylvania but lived much of her life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of #women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between #mothers and #children. She sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-boating-party-1893-mary-cassatt.html

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May 21 - the birthday of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolors, and books.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/adoration-of-the-magi-1504-albrecht-durer.html

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May 21 - the birthday of French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) - one of the most famous representatives of naive art or primitivism. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-carnival-evening-1886-henri-rousseau.html?newartwork=true

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May 19 - the birthday of Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings, and portraits. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries and prints.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-feast-of-the-bean-king-1645-jacob-jordaens.html

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May 6 - the birthday of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - a German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/basel-with-the-rhine-1928-ernst-ludwig-kirchner.html

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April 23 - the birthday of Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) - one of the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His religious depictions of Hindu deities and works from Indian epic poetry and Puranas have received profound acclaim.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-murugan-raja-ravi-varma.html

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April 27 - the birthday of Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914) - one of the most popular artists in Norway. He is best known for his epic fairytale paintings and drawings and is said to be the person who defined how the Norwegian troll looks like.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-princess-picking-lice-from-the-troll-1900-theodor-kittelsen.html

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April 26 - the birthday of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) - a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-liberty-leading-the-people-1830-eugene-delacroix.html

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April 24 - the birthday of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784) - an Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in London. Then, in 1775, he became embroiled in controversy after executing "The Conjurer", a satirical picture seemingly ridiculing the fashion for Italian Renaissance art as well as Sir Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-conjuror-1775-nathaniel-hone-the-elder.html

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April 23 - the birthday of Joseph Mallord William Turner - English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive coloring, imaginative landscapes, and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-burning-of-the-houses-of-lords-and-commons-16-october-1834-joseph-mallord-william-turner.html

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April 23 - the birthday of Antoine Vollon (1833-1900) - a French realist artist, best known as a painter of still lifes, landscapes, and figures. In his own day, Vollon was a successful celebrity and was hailed as a second Chardin. This work, probably painted in the late 1870s, exhibits his technical virtuosity in describing the surface, light, and texture of everyday objects.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/still-life-with-cheese-1870s-antoine-vollon.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #StillLife #vintage # 1800s

April 21 - the birthday of Ludovico Carracci (1555 - 1619) - an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by an intense mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/annunciation-1604-ludovico-carracci.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #1500s

April 20 - the birthday of a French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Redon is best known today for the dreamlike paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were inspired by Japanese art and leaned toward abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to Surrealism.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-flower-clouds-1903-odilon-redon.html

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April 20 - the birthday of Franz Xaver Winterhalter - a German painter and lithographer, known as the favorite portraitist amongst European royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/portrait-of-leonilla-princess-of-sayn-wittgenstein-sayn-1843-franz-xaver-winterhalter.html

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April 16 - the birthday of Ford Madox Brown - a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often satirical version of the Pre-Raphaelit.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-coat-of-many-colours-1866-ford-madox-brown.html

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April 15 - the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci - an Italian polymath who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. His Last Supper is one of the most recognizable paintings and among Leonardo's most celebrated works. Some commentators consider it pivotal in inaugurating the transition into what is now termed the High Renaissance.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-last-supper-c1495-1498-leonardo-da-vinci.html

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April 12 - the birthday of French artist Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Apollinaire acclaimed his La Ville de Paris as a triumph of modern painting.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/la-ville-de-paris-1910-1912-robert-delaunay.html

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April 8 - the birthday of Cornelis de Heem (1631-1659) - a still-life painter associated with both Flemish Baroque and Dutch Golden Age painting.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/still-life-with-a-basket-of-fruit-1654-cornelis-de-heem.html

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April 7 - the birthday of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) - a Dutch Golden Age painter, who specialized in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil (highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface) "niche" paintings.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/herring-seller-and-boy-1664-gerrit-dou.html

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April 6 - the birthday of English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-lady-of-shalott-1888-john-william-waterhouse.html

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