July's Creative Geniuses: Famous Artists Born This Month
*** 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.
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*** Ekua Holmes ***
Birthday: July 6, 1955
Ekua Holmes is an American mixed-media illustrator famous for her representations of Black lives and culture in children’s storybooks. Thin layers of rice paper layered over bold magazine prints and richly colored acrylic reveal dimensional depth. Her bright images examine family, community, memory, self-determination, and resilience.
https://www....uaholmes.com/
*** 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).
https://www....biography.jsp
*** Nam June Paik ***
Birthday: July 20, 1932
Nam June Paik was a Korean installation artist famous for making television a fine arts medium. He combined music, performance, and visual images. Paik made large-scale sculptures and installations from retro televisions playing video loops and videos from direct-feed cameras.
https://amer...une-paik-3670
*** 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.
https://www....rks/paintings
*** Alexander Calder ***
Birthday: July 22, 1898
Alexander Calder, an innovative American sculptor, is renowned for inventing the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture that gracefully moves with the air currents. His playful, abstract creations, both in the form of delicate mobiles and monumental stabiles, have left a lasting impact on modern art.
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*** Sheila Hicks ***
Birthday: July 24, 1934
Sheila Hicks is an American fiber artist famous for wrapping, piling, and weaving brightly colored textiles. Her work plays with space, light, and gravity—you never quite know what form it will take! Hicks likes to defy the expectations of the materials in a playful way, often reworking her pieces until she is happy with them.
https://www....ilahicks.com/
*** Marcel Duchamp ***
Birthday: July 28, 1887
Alexander Calder, an innovative American sculptor, is renowned for inventing the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture that gracefully moves with the air currents. His playful, abstract creations, both in the form of delicate mobiles and monumental stabiles, have left a lasting impact on modern art.
https://www....-duchamp-1036
*** 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.
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*** Banksy ***
Birthday: July 20, 1974(?)
Banksy is an anonymous British graffiti artist known for his acerbic and antiauthoritarian art, often done in public places. Although he is particularly known for his stenciled art featuring policemen and rats, over the years he has extended his practice to include installation and performance. Banksy’s art often appears unexpectedly, and it typically causes a flurry of media attention. He generally claims the work on social media after it has been spotted.
See his work:
**Banksy Unmasked- https://www....%22Robbie%22.
*** 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.
https://www....av-klimt.com/