Today is the birthday of Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (1887 -1968), a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player,... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Today is the birthday of George Morren (1868 -1941), a Belgian painter, sculptor, Impressionist and engraver. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Today is the birthday of Johann Paul Schor (1615–1674), known in Rome as "Giovanni Paolo Tedesco" (Tedesco literally... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 27, 2020
Today is the birthday of George Catlin (1796 – 1872), an American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 26, 2020
Today is the birthday of Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 26, 2020
Today is the birthday of the Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939). Posted here before, but meriting re-posting for... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 26, 2020
Today is the birthday of Maxfield Parrish (1870 – 1966), an American painter and illustrator. He is known for his... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 25, 2020
Today is the birthday of Raimundo Madrazo y Garreta (1841-1920) a Spanish painter from the Madrazo family of artists who... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 24, 2020
Today is the birthday of Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757 –1825) a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin, who dominated portraiture in the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th century. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 24, 2020
Today is the birthday pf Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Today is the birthday of Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) an American sculptor who is best known for his innovative... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Today is the birthday of Emma Lazarus (1849 –1887) an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Today is the birthday of David Davidovich Burliuk (1882 – 1967), a Ukrainian poet, artist, publicist and book... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Today is the birthday of Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Today is the birthday of Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch an Italian scholar and poet... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 20, 2020
Today is the birthday of Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939), an American feminist artist, art... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 20, 2020
Today is the birthday of Leon de Smet (1881 – 1966), a Belgian luminist, impressionist, expressionist and pointillist painter. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 20, 2020
Today is the birthday of László Moholy-Nagy (/1895 – 1946), a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 20, 2020
Today is the birthday of Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917), a French artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings of... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 19, 2020
Today is the birthday of Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 19, 2020
Today is the birthday of John Martin (1789 – 1854), an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. He was... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 19, 2020
Today is the birthday John Randall Bratby RA (19 July 1928 – 20 July 1992), an English painter who founded the kitchen... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 19, 2020
Today is the birthday of Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958), an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 18, 2020
Today is the Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956), a German-American painter,... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 17, 2020
Today is the birthday of Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) a French painter who achieved his greater... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 17, 2020
Today is the birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( 1796 – 1875), a French landscape and portrait painter as well as... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Thursday, July 16, 2020
Today is the birthday of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) an English painter, specialising in portraits.He promoted the... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Thursday, July 16, 2020
Today is the birthday of Benno Rafael Adam (1812 -1892), a German painter of animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno_Adam Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Today is the birthday of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606- 1669), a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Today is the birthday of Andrea del Sarto (1486 – 1530), an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Today is the birthday of Ossip Zadkine (1888 – 1967), a Russian-born French naturalized artist. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Today is the birthday of Ben Enwonwu (1917 – 1994), a Nigerian painter and sculptor. Arguably the most influential... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Today is the birthday of Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Today is the birthday of the Romantic poet, John Clare 1793–1864. William Harmon, in the book, Top 500 poems, writes, "... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 13, 2020
Today is the birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960) an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 12, 2020
Today is the birthday of Andrew Wyeth, (1917 – 2009), a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 12, 2020
Today is the birthday of Roger de La Fresnaye (1885 – 1925), a French Cubist painter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_La_Fresnaye Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 11, 2020
Today is the birthday of Nic Jonk 1928 - 1994. a Dutch Postwar & Contemporary sculptor, born in 1928. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 11, 2020
Today is the birthday of Giorgio di Chirico (1888 – 1978), an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 10, 2020
Today is the birthday of Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903), a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 10, 2020
Today is the birthday of Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet (1928 – 1999), a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Buffet Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 10, 2020
Today is the birthday of Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 1695), a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Today is the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656), an Italian Baroque painter, now considered one of the... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Today is the birthday of Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt (1867 – 1945), a German artist who worked with painting,... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Today (July 7) is the birthday of Margaret Walker, Margaret Walker (1915 -1998), an American poet and writer. She was part of the... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Today is the birthday of Marc Chagall (1887-1985) a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin.An early... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 6, 2020
Today (July 6) is the birthday of John Flaxman (1755 – 1826), a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 6, 2020
Today (July 56) is the birthday of Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638 – 1698), a Dutch Golden Age painter, who is best known today for his cityscapes. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Monday, July 6, 2020
Today (July 5) is the birthday of André Lhote (1885 – 1962), a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 5, 2020
Today (July 5) is the birthday of Bill Watterson (born 1958), creator of the comic Calvin and Hobbes. Though comics may not be... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 5, 2020
Today (July 5) is the birthday of Chuck Close, Chuck Thomas Close (born 1940), an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist painter through his portraits on a massive scale. Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 5, 2020
Today (July 5) is the birthday of Paul Gabriël (1828-1903), a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Dutch Hague School. He painted frequently landscape-paintings in open air. (wikipedia). Posted by Mario A. Pita on Sunday, July 5, 2020
Today (July 4) is the birthday of Koko (1971-2018), a female western lowland gorilla known for having learned around 1000 hand... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 4, 2020
Today (July 4) is the birthday of the philosopher Thomas Nagel (born 1937), famous for, among other things, his 1974 paper "What... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Saturday, July 4, 2020
Today (July 3) is the birthday of John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), most likely born in Boston and remembered as a portrait painter in colonial America and England. (Wikipedia) Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 3, 2020
Today (July 3) is the birthday of Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 3, 2020
Today (July 3) is the birthday of the Dutch painter Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo] (1922-2010), one of the founders of the Reflex movement and the Cobra movement. (Wikipedia) Posted by Mario A. Pita on Friday, July 3, 2020
I've been celebrating the birthdays mostly of people who lived in days of yore by posting examples of their work in the... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Thursday, July 2, 2020
Today is the birthday of Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996... Posted by Mario A. Pita on Thursday, July 2, 2020