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  • Aideen Barry
    Aideen Barry
    is a Visual Artist based in Ireland. Barry was born in Cork in Ireland in 1979.Barry’s means of expression are interchangeable: she is known for her performative actions, film, sculpture, drawing, and installation work...

    , Irish multimedia and performance artist.
  • Eric Bourdon
    Eric Bourdon
    -Painting career:Bourdon's works have in common vivid colors and unpremeditated pencil strokes, expressive of raw enthusiasm in the "art brut" or "Outsider Art" manner. Paul Masquelier, critic for the controversial review "Eléments" has pointed out the narcissistic or regressive aspects of his...

    , French painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and writer.
  • Elise Fouin
    Elise Fouin
    Elise Fouin is a French designer. She was educated in Paris at Ecole Boule.Her designs range from spectacular interior designs to individual items such as lamps, chairs, etc.Fouin has been profiled in the French design magazine Intramuroa....

    , French design
    Design
    Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

    er.

Deaths

  • 11 January - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French Art dealer
    Art dealer
    An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...

     (b.1884
    1884 in art
    -Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect -Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect...

    ).
  • 3 February - Aaron Douglas
    Aaron Douglas
    Aaron Douglas was an African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.-Early life:...

    , American painter (b.1898
    1898 in art
    -Paintings:*Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus*Paul Gauguin – The White Horse *Edvard Munch – Metabolism-January to June:*3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer...

    ).
  • 5 April - Eugène Gabritschevsky
    Eugène Gabritschevsky
    Eugène Gabritschevsky was a Russian biologist and artist. He was born into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia...

    , Russian biologist
    Biologist
    A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

     and artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

     (b.1893
    1893 in art
    -Events:*May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake...

    ).
  • 25 June - Dave Fleischer
    Dave Fleischer
    David "Dave" Fleischer was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his two older brothers Max Fleischer and Lou Fleischer...

    , Austrian-American
    Austrian-American
    Austrian Americans are Americans of Austrian descent. According to the 2000 US census, there are 735,128, or 0.3% Americans of full or partial Austrian descent. The states with the largest Austrian American populations are New York , California , Pennsylvania , Florida and New Jersey...

     animator
    Animator
    An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    , and film producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

     (b.1894
    1894 in art
    -Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring *Paul Gauguin - Breton Peasants *Claude Monet - Rouen Cathedral *Edvard Munch...

    ).
  • 13 July - Ludwig Merwart
    Ludwig Merwart
    Ludwig Merwart was an influential Austrian painter and graphic artist. He is an important representative of abstract expressionism and was a major force in graphic arts and prints, especially after World War II...

    , Austrian
    Austrians
    Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and graphic artist (b.1913
    1913 in art
    -Events:* February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century* The London Group formed and holds its first exhibition...

    ).
  • 8 November - Edward Ardizzone
    Edward Ardizzone
    Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA was an English artist, writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books.-Early life:...

    , British writer and illustrator (b.1900
    1900 in art
    -Works:*Thomas Eakins - The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton *Vilhelm Hammershøi - Sunbeams*Edvard Munch - Red Virginia Creeper-Births:*January 5 - Yves Tanguy, painter...

    ).
  • 23 December - Peggy Guggenheim
    Peggy Guggenheim
    Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R...

    , American art
    Art
    Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

     collector (b.1898
    1898 in art
    -Paintings:*Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus*Paul Gauguin – The White Horse *Edvard Munch – Metabolism-January to June:*3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer...

    ).

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  • Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     (b.1913
    1913 in art
    -Events:* February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century* The London Group formed and holds its first exhibition...

    ).
  • Jean Charlot
    Jean Charlot
    Louis Henri Jean Charlot was a French painter and illustrator, active in Mexico and the United States. Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business and was a Russian-born émigré, albeit one who supported the Bolshevik cause. His mother Anna was herself an artist...

    , French
    French people
    The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

     painter and illustrator (b.1898
    1898 in art
    -Paintings:*Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus*Paul Gauguin – The White Horse *Edvard Munch – Metabolism-January to June:*3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer...

    ).
  • Sonia Delaunay
    Sonia Delaunay
    Sonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...

    , Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

    -French artist (b. 1885
    1885 in art
    -Events:*"Glasgow Boys" first exhibit collectively, at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.-Works:* Thomas Eakins - The Swimming Hole.*Stanhope Forbes - .*Ellen Day Hale - Self Portrait * Juan Luna - Odalisque....

    ).
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