Lets Celebrate Some Of The Famous Artists Who Were Born In July!
The famous artists listed below have July bdays, so we thought this would be the perfect time to shine a light on them, briefly talking about who they were, as well as looking at their art.
*** Frida Kahlo ***
Birthday: July 6, 1907
Frida was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly coloured self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist. In addition to her work, Kahlo was known for her tumultuous relationship with muralist Diego Rivera (married 1929, divorced 1939, remarried 1940).
(See Her Art): https://www....paintings.jsp
*** Rembrandt van Rijn ***
Birthday: July 15, 1606
Rembrandt was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.
(See His Art): https://www....dtonline.org/
*** Marc Chagall ***
Birthday: July 7, 1887
Russian-French artist known for his dreamlike and colorful paintings.
Chagall was also a printmaker and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Predating Surrealism, his early works, such as I and the Village (1911), were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art. His works in various media include sets for plays and ballets, etchings illustrating the Bible, and stained-glass windows.
(See His Art): https://www....cchagall.net/
*** Gustav Klimt ***
Birthday: July 14, 1862
Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
(See His Art): https://www....av-klimt.com/
*** Artemisia Gentileschi ***
Birthday: July 8, 1593
Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the first and only female artists to achieve success in the seventeenth century. Following in the footsteps of Caravaggio, her Baroque paintings were some of the most dramatic and dynamic of her generation and she became known for her realism, her accomplished use of chiaroscuro, and for placing women and their stories at the center of all her images. Her surviving works present a unique personal perspective on the cultural and social norms of the period, norms which she often intentionally inverted, using her position as an artist to comment on the male-dominated nature of society and to place an alternative focus on female agency.
(See Her Art): https://www....s-1202683190/
*** Edward Hopper ***
Birthday: July 22, 1882
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter known for his iconic portrayals of urban and rural scenes, capturing a sense of solitude and isolation.
His realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop artand New Realist painters of the 1960s and 1970s.
(See His Art): https://www....rd-hopper/900
*** Yves Klein ***
Birthday: July 28, 1928
French artist associated with Nouveau réalisme and known for his use of vibrant blue monochromatic artworks.
Klein was an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.
(See His Art): https://www....m/en/oeuvres/
*** David Hockney ***
Birthday: July 9, 1937
Hockney is a British artist recognized for his contributions to pop art, photography, and his vibrant landscapes.
Hockney was a painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer whose works were characterized by economy of technique, a preoccupation with light, and a frank mundane realism derived from Pop art and photography.
(See His Art): https://www....rks/paintings
*** Jean Dubuffet ***
Birthday: July 31, 1901
Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime.
(See His Art): https://www....ean-dubuffet/