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harvardfineartslib · 11 months

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Happy Birthday to Anni Albers who was born on this day in 1899. Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile artist, designer, printmaker, and educator known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings and weavings.

Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This publication is a facsimile of her only known notebook which shows her working process.

The notebook follows Albers's deliberations and progression as a draftsman in their original form. It reveals the way she went about making complex patterns, exploring them piece by piece, line by line, in a visually dramatic and mysteriously beautiful series of geometric arrangements.

Anni Albers : Notebook 1970-1980 Editor, Lucas Zwirner ; afterword, Brenda Danilowitz. New York, NY : David Zwirner Books, [2017] HOLLIS number: 990152251350203941

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archivesofamericanart · 5 years

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If you missed your chance to dress up as an artist for Halloween, it's not too late to pull out your palette and celebrate the birthday of William Merritt Chase. The artist and educator who created the Chase School of Art, now known as the Parsons School of Design, was born this day in 1849.

Image: William Merritt Chase in his studio, ca. 1910 / Harriet Blackstone, photographer. Harriet Blackstone papers, 1870-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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bayramovartfndn · 4 years

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Today we celebrate the birthday of Durdy Bayramov - a brilliant artist, devoted husband and father, a proud son of Turkmen land and a fierce, loyal friend. In these trying times, it is people like Bayramov who make us believe in humanity's goodness. Сегодня мы празднуем день рождения Дурды Байрамова - блестящего художника, преданного мужа и отца, гордого сына туркменской земли и верного друга. В эти трудные времена именно такие люди, как Байрамов, заставляют нас верить в доброту человечества.

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mvvo-art · 7 years

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Happy 89th Birthday, Andy! You changed the (art) world forever and paved the way for artists in advertising to own their commercial art roots and their artistic genius! 🎨 🎉 💕 . . #andywarhol #artistsbirthday #warholmuseum #adartshow #mvvoart

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leahboote-blog · 6 years

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My birthdaaaaay of bursting paint balloons and catching it onto paper, one awesome memory stuck on my wall!

With one hella golden birthday cake!!! I am thinking of that cake now...I will always be thinking of that cake.

#birthday #artistsbirthdays #play #awesomecake #artistsnohowtoparty

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harvardfineartslib · 1 year

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Happy Birthday to Isamu Noguchi who was born on this day in 1904.

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. He created sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, architecture, landscapes, and set designs with his own unique style of bold and modern aesthetics.

Noguchi was born in Los Angeles to Léonie Gilmour, a white American of mostly Irish descent born in Brooklyn, NY, and Yonejiro Noguchi, an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. Noguchi moved to Japan with his mother at the age of two and lived there until the age of thirteen. In 1918, he returned alone to the United States to attend high school in Indiana. After high school, he moved to Connecticut and then to New York City to attend Columbia University, enrolling there as a premed student. He began taking evening sculpture classes at the Leonardo da Vinci School on the Lower East Side, and soon left the university to become a sculptor, supporting himself by making traditional portrait busts.

In 1926, Noguchi saw Constantin Brancusi’s work in an exhibition in New York. In 1927, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and went to Paris to work in Brancusi’s studio. This experience profoundly changed his artistic direction, turning Noguchi toward modernism and abstraction.

This photo of the artist is from circa 1926 before he left for Paris. It shows the young artist looking at his work, which depicts a female nude in a traditional way. This work was later destroyed.

During the WWII, Noguchi became a political activist and co-founded Nisei Writers and Artists Mobilization for Democracy. He voluntarily entered the Poston concentration camp in Arizona and remained there for six months. (Summarized from Noguchi.org website)

Undine [destroyed] Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988, American [artist] American 1926 HOLLIS number: olvwork240109 Image title: Photo with artist [ca.1926]

This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images.

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harvardfineartslib · 1 year

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Happy Birthday to Claude Monet who was born on this day in 1840. This portrait was painted by Monet’s longtime friend and artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir. They met in the studio of Professor Charles Gleyre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1862, and they quickly formed a long-lasting friendship. Monet and Renoir also painted together in the summer of 1869 at a small outdoor café and bathing establishment in the Seine River near Bougival called La Grenouillère (“the Frog Pond”). This week is also World Kindness Week. A good reminder to call or text your friend with some kind words, or perhaps, paint a portrait of your friend.

Claude Monet Alternate Title: Portrait of Claude Monet Author / Creator Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 1841-1919, French [artist] Oil on canvas Dimensions: 85 x 60.5 cm. French 1875 Repository: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France HOLLIS number: olvwork16943

This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images.

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Belated Birthday to Katsushika Hokusai who was born on October 21st in 1760.

Genroku kasen kai-awase: Ashigai Translated Title: Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets: Cranes on the Seashore/The Reed Shell Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849, Japanese [artist] Date: datable to 1821. Woodcut on paper (color) Dimensions: 19.2 x 17.6 cm. (paper) Culture: Japanese Repository : Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States HOLLIS Number: olvwork375498

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harvardfineartslib · 1 year

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Happy Birthday to Charles Demuth who was born on this day in 1883!

The Circus Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, American [artist] Dimensions: 8 x 10 5/8" Watercolor and graphite on paper American 1917 Repository: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, United States

HOLLIS number: 8000932275 This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images.

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to Mariotto Albertinelli who was born on this day in 1474.

Albertinelli was an Italian Renaissance painter who was born and active in Florence.

Mariotto Albertinelli (1474-1515). 1504-1515. Nativity. Place: The Courtauld Gallery, London, Provenance: Gambier-Parry, Mark; bequest; 1966. https://library-artstor-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/asset/ACOURTAULDIG_10313599441

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) who was born on this day!

In 1968, Anni Albers gave an interview to Sevim Fesci for the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. When asked about how she got started with weaving, Albers responded that she originally thought the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus was “rather sissy.” But that workshop was the only thing that was open to her (as a woman), so she joined. In the beginning, she still was not very interested working with, “just these threads. And there was a very inefficient lady, old lady, sort of the needlework kind of type, who taught it.” But as she got into it, Albers found it intriguing, working within the possibilities of the medium and breaking through it.

“ … I have this very what you call today "square" idea that art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.

And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.”

Albers was born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann in Germany in 1899. She married artist Josef Albers in Berlin in 1925. In 1933, under pressure from the Nazis, they fled to North Carolina and began teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College. Albers worked primarily in textiles and later experimented with printmaking, blurring the lines between traditional craft and art.

Wall hanging Albers, Anni, 1899-1994, German [artist] Silk, cotton, and acetate 145 x 92 cm. German 1925 Repository: Neue Sammlung, Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Munich, Bavaria, Germany HOLLIS number: olvwork719794

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to John Singer Sargent who was born on this day in 1856!

Image description: Painting of a young man with beard wearing a tie and jacket, facing slightly diagonal with eyes looking at the viewers.

Self-portrait Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, American Oil on canvas Dimensions: 30.5 x 25.4 cm. 1886 Repository: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland HOLLIS number: olvwork170745

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to Angelica Kauffman who was born on this day in 1741!

Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807) was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. She was a skilled history, portrait, landscape, and decoration painter. Kauffman was one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

Image: Self-portrait of the painter in oval golden frame

Self-portrait. Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807, Swiss [artist] 25 x 15 cm. Paintings c.1770 HOLLIS number: olvwork10141

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to Fernand Léger who were born on this day in 1881!

French artist, Léger (1881 – 1955) spent two years in service for the French Army at the front in Argonne. His experiences in World War I had a significant effect on his work. While serving in the army, he made many sketches of artillery pieces and fellow soldiers while in the trenches. In September 1916, he almost died from a mustard gas attack. Later, he explained the mechanical and robotic figures and machine-like forms in his paintings thusly:

“...I was stunned by the sight of the breech of a 75 millimeter in the sunlight. It was the magic of light on the white metal. That's all it took for me to forget the abstract art of 1912–1913. The crudeness, variety, humor, and downright perfection of certain men around me, their precise sense of utilitarian reality and its application in the midst of the life-and-death drama we were in ... made me want to paint in slang with all its color and mobility.” (Summarized from Wikipedia.)

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1. Black and white photograph of the artist in a trench with a cigarette in his mouth.

2. Painting of an abstract human figure with tuber forms with a pipe in his mouth.

3. Painting of a man with a mustache wearing a black tank top looking side way, his arms almost crossed with his right hand holding a cigarette, painted in simplified forms with bold colors, red, black, and some yellow.

4. Watercolor sketch with loose brush strokes with light colors, some yellow, brown, and olive green with black outlines.

Fernand Léger in the Argonne Black and white photography Photographer unidentified French 1915 HOLLIS number: olvwork731577

Soldier with pipe Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955, French [artist] 50 x 27" French paintings 1916 Repository: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany HOLLIS number: olvwork182037

Mechanic Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955, French [artist] 45 1/2 x 35" paintings 1920 Repository: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada HOLLIS number: olvwork182067

Trench diggers Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955, French [artist] Ink, tempera and/or watercolor and red glaze on paper 31.8 x 26.2 cm. watercolors (paintings) 1916 Repository: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, United States HOLLIS number: 8000981201

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to Kiki Smith who was born on this day in 1954!

“I think that lots of times (my work) it’s healing—it’s trying to mend, it’s mending—stitching people up. People are flayed open—laid open. Myself, I’m trying to sew myself up….” - Kiki Smith, 1990

“The basic way of making things is similar to how I made things in all my life. I make changes depending on the changes in my life.” - Kiki Smith, 2014

For more than three decades, Kiki Smith has been producing a varied corpus of work including sculptures, printmaking, photography, and installations, constantly exploring human nature and the body, especially as relates to women. “Her investigations of the body—without shying away from taboos, awkwardness, or the boundaries of shame—are an aesthetic discourse on the human condition: they deal with birth, age, dying, wounding and healing, reanimation, sexuality, gender, identity, memory.” (Petra Giloy-Hirtz, p. 11)

Image 1: Photo of Kiki Smith by Erik Madigan Heck Description: Black and white photo of the artist, showing waist up.

Image 2: “Born”, 2002, Bronze, 99 x 256.5 x 61cm Description: A naked adult size woman lies on the floor as she came out of a deer with her feet still stuck in the deer’s rear.

Image 3: “Noctua, Corvus, Hydra, Filis”, 2013, Ink on Nepalese paper with mica and methylcellulose glue, dimension variable. Description: Image of a large snake forms as if its body is a river. Along the body/river, an owl, a bird and a large cat are seen. Papers are crinkled and glued to make a larger size. Some star shapes are added but sparsely. Almost monochromatic drawing with some blue, red, and yellow.

Image 4: Front cover: “Looking up with vein”, 1995, Pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper, 52.7 x 64.1cm Description: A man’s head is looking up showing his chin with stubble beard and his blue vein as prominent.

Kiki Smith : procession Petra Giloy-Hirtz; with a foreword by Okwui Enwezor; and contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Virginia Raguin, and Ulrich Wilmes. Smith, Kiki, 1954- Munich: Haus der Kunst: Prestel, 2018. 223 pages: illustrations (chiefly color) English HOLLIS number: 990152806210203941

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