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Although thinking about art as a factual entity might seem a bit odd at first (you know, based on the notion that art is all about emotions and feelings), you would be surprised how many fun facts about art there really are. So many that we’ve filled a whole list with facts about art so you can entertain your friends at the most unexpected times with them. Or, you can also dish out these interesting facts about art at any old gallery opening when there’s nothing else to talk about.
Anyway, these interesting facts will absolutely give you pieces of information you’ve never heard before and, at the same time, will entertain you like nothing else before. Here’s a snippet of what to expect from these amusing art facts. Did you know that the Mona Lisa is so popular among her fans that she (well, not she, exactly, but the painting) has her own mailbox for fan letters at the Louvre? Neither did we, but now we are so tempted to write to her and see if we get a reply! Or did you know that the color wheel existed way before the United States did? Now there’s a piece of useless information we will absolutely remember for the rest of our lives!
Now that you got the gist that these cool facts about art will absolutely be worthy of your attention and time, it is our cue to urge you to scroll on down and check them out. Once you are there, rank the fun facts since now they are in no particular order. And lastly, if you feel the need to share this article with your friends, do not hesitate to do so!
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#1
Bob Ross Once Helped A Color-Blind Viewer By Spending An Entire Episode Painting In Only In Grey
the vintage macaron (she/her) 2 years ago
Bob Ross was a Christian? How cool; I didn’t know that!
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Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
It's actually a great thing to practise even if you're not colour blind!
Michele Celeste 3 years ago
I love Bob Ross, his videos are my "happy place" not only because I enjoy his talent and creativity, but his tone of voice is very soothing!
Misstaken138 2 years ago
Seriously. Bob Ross and David Attenborough are the 2 people that can knock me out with their amazing voices. It's relaxing and comforting.
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andrea jennings 2 years ago
He was my late late night voice after working 12-14 hours. Id listen to his calming voice and drift off to sleep. I have about a hundred Bob Ross magnets, t-shirts, posters, games, and the Chia head!!!
Rainclouds Radio 2 years ago
It was to prove that even colour blind people could paint
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#2
There Are Two Starry Nights By Van Gogh
CT 3 years ago
Commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône. This is my favourite. I've had it on poster in front of my bed for many years
SydneyGirl 2 years ago
Me too, but the hallway not my bedroom. I almost cried when I saw it in person in Paris.
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Ray Heap 2 years ago
I recently read that the positions of the stars are so accurate that astronomers can tell when it was painted down to the hour.
Pizzagirl 91 2 years ago (edited)
It's weird how, on the one hand, most people agree that van Gogh painted what he saw, but on the other hand, they put weird meanings to things like, how the tree "penetrates" and "connects" the beauty of the sky and the city in the other "Starry Night". (I recently went to an exhibition.) Dude, he painted the tree that was there. He didn't put it there. He just went up a hill and painted the beauty.
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--- 2 years ago
Is that the Small or Big Cart constellation in the middle? (Sorry if the names are off, my astrology English is not that good)
Jessica N 2 years ago
I believe that is the big dipper/cart. The small is upside down to us
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#3
The Most Well-Known Graffiti Artist In The World Is Banksy, Yet No One Knows His Real Name
Olive of the Meowls 2 years ago
Me too. I even have a book full of photos of Banksy’s work
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Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
How does no one ever see him in action when his art appears in so many crowded places? Even at night random people are out and about.
Fenchurch 3 years ago
There have been spottings and alleged photos. People randomly noticed a dude hanging out at places where a Banksy appeared the next day, so people got a good look at him without realizing the significance until later. There is a pretty convincing theory tied to those stories that I don’t recommend looking up if you want to keep the mystery alive. It’s kind of fun to think he’s a ghost
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Rannveig Ess (don't / care) 3 years ago
Banksy is commonly believed to be Robin Gunningham, as first identified by The Mail on Sunday in 2008, born on 28 July 1973 in Yate,
#4
Leonardo Da Vinci Was A 15th Century Animal Rights Activist And Vegetarian
patricia patricia 3 years ago
Vegetarian and vegan are not the same thing
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Undercover 2 years ago
Back in the day vegetarians had an other word to describe themselves: being poor.
michael Chock 2 years ago
He was also gay, could easily bend horseshoes with his bare hands, invented the helicopter 400 years before anyone else and medical science is just now catching up to his research on the human heart.
Thomas Henry Horan 2 years ago (edited)
Believe it, or not, that's aaaaaaaactually interesting...
tuzdayschild 2 years ago
So basically, what you're all saying is that vegan and vegetarian are not the same.
#5
91% Of Americans Believe That A Well-Rounded Education Must Include The Arts
Tamra 3 years ago
And yet, art is the least funded part of the curriculum in public schools, and the first to be cut.
Zoz 3 years ago
at my school, the art budget is super high, we get $4,000 worth of art supplies every quarter and the gym get almost nothing
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Too many people think art is only about pleasing (or not so pleasing) images, but art is so much more. There are explainable elements of math, such as geometry. There's history, because most often, the history of a culture, a nation, a kingdom, etc. is a vital aspect of the artist's vision. You can even throw in sciences. I have always enjoyed history courses, but I didn't necessarily retain the information that I learned until I started taking art history courses in college. Learning the background of many images from the course helped me anchor the knowledge I had from previous history courses and often, I learned more than I had in traditional history lessons. Hell, even some maths started making sense. I never imagined these things were lessons I would learn from a work of art.
EyeYamStewPeed 3 years ago
Good. This is good. Also, art is mainly about expression. But the things you say are very important, and some I haven't considered. I liked reading this response.
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Stylishsidewaysbird 2 years ago
I would also like to point out that when lockdown happened, the things people missed most was the arts. Music, movies, etc. Yes we can live without art but that’s just surviving. We need art to thrive!
RandomFrog(He/They️️) 2 years ago
I go to an Arts academy , and it’s awesome bcuz Gym is a one semester class but all the art classes are full year, and every class has to have arts integration
Steve Robert 3 years ago
They also believe education funding levels should dramatically increase, but teaching is still one of the lowest paying professions in the country.
Tea Legend 2 years ago
Then you work in design, advertising, marketing, illustration and animation for commercial use for companies, urban planning, architecture, even staging homes for realtors before they put them on the market, packaging for products & branding, social media marketing, concept designs for electronics, cars, the mug you drinking from...the music videos you watch (those visuals are planned, scene by scene before the budget for the video is even presented ), and the list broadens if your a digital artist....the list go on......If you are not the one creating them options open up in the planning process....Also every form of dance, every singer, spoken word artist, poet, writer and instrument player falls under the arts as well. It depends on the individuals passion, how they wish to pursue their talents and their ability to find, understand, utilize and navigate the world, like any other career or job.
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The beauty of visual art is the idea that, in its core, it was always the same. Only the form of delivery differed. “I think that the purpose of visual art has not changed as time went on. It has always been relevant because it conveyed a message that represented everything that really mattered in its respective time,” elaborated Skaistė.
#6
Art Used To Be A Competition In The Olympics
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It all ended when they caught people putting steroids in the paint.
Edgar 3 years ago (edited)
Doesn't sound good. How art can be competitive ? It's not the point. My art is more art than your art ?
Tea Legend 2 years ago (edited)
Art isn't just visual and can be assessed by the execution of technique. Also there are other categories of art that can be tested and have master levels to reach, especially with musical instruments and literary prowess.
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#7
Roman Sculptures Were Designed With Removable Heads So That One Head Could Be Swapped Out For Another
L 3 years ago
Must we include him in EVERYTHING?this is an article about art. He clearly mastered the concept of "no such thing as bad publicity" I think the only recourse is to slow the oxygen supply.
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Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Yes and no, but mostly no. Heads were usually mounted on bodies with metal studs plastered into holes in the neck, true. This was mostly because the head and body was frequently sculpted by different artists: sculpture in Rome was less an artistic endeavor and more and more a business, so being able to quickly churn out statues to the likeness of the latest senator, hero, champion etc was a way to sustain a business where dozens of artists worked together. Sometimes the bodies were done well in advance and finished with heads and hands at the last moment. How different would a gladiator's body be from any other anyway? And in any case, that new patrician would surely not complain if his statue looked a bit more muscular, slightly taller and more toned than the real McCoy.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Secondly. It was not uncommon to recover the bodies of greek statues, and replace the missing or damaged heads and hands: Romans considered the Greek civilization the pinnacle of human culture, a model to look towards, and for a long while were in love with anything Hellenic. Having your statue done was cool, but having a made-in-Athens statue with a brand new head? Priceless. But not as priceless as a complete, original sculpture! The most common, but utterly rare, instance of head-swapping for real figures was when someone, often a general or politician, was hit by a decree called "damnatio memoriae". Every mention of the victim name had to be removed, every instance of his name scrapped, including in the name of the heirs if any. The statues were either destroyed, buried or -yes, in this case- repurposed.
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Yes! Want to see some repainted in their original colors <3 some archeologists have determined them based on tiny flecks!
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Amused panda 3 years ago
It sounds like something that would be practical when there are changes in power - Roman patricians or emperor - or if they were celebrating a particular hero.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Arms too sometimes! That's why you so often find them intact but missing heads and/or arms.
Jrog 2 years ago
As I write above, this is mostly related to the way the statues were sculpted by multiple individuals working together in an "atelier". Arms and heads were the most difficult and delicate parts, reserved for the most skilled sculptors, and did not take as much time as a full body so they were made separately and then connected with iron or bronze studs to slots in the main body. This technique was used all throughout the middle ages in the "commercial" production, with only the highest examples of the art (think Michelangelo) working from huge monolithic blocks without "tricks".
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Leonardo Da Vinci Was Ambidextrous - Able To Write With One Hand While Simultaneously Drawing With The Other
RabidChild 2 years ago
I saw an exhibit of his pencil sketches a few years back - basically his doodles - it was mind blowing.
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SaneMinotaur (she/her) 3 years ago (edited)
I mean, I could probably do that... not saying I'd do it WELL, but I could do it... Srsly though, I'd like to see works of his that were done simultaneously :D
Paweł Duda 2 years ago
With enough practice anyone can do it, just rarely people know about it.
#9
Recent Discovery Made In Spain Found That The Oldest Paintings Discovered To Date, Made By Humans, Were Made More Than 42,000 Years Ago
Steve Robert 3 years ago
A prehistoric parent said Yeah my kid drew that even though I told him no painting on the walls
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago (edited)
This age has been surpassed, and the artists were Neanderthals, who were also humans, making paintings 64,000 years ago. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cave-paintings-neanderthals-1230620
iccank arc 2 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-found-in-indonesiahttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-found-in-indonesiahttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-found-in-indonesiahttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-found-in-indonesiahttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/worlds-oldest-known-cave-painting-found-in-indonesia
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Esist Nosrep 2 years ago
"Made by humans" can imply that there are other paintings made not by humans?
Trash Panda 🦝 2 years ago
They chewed some kind of plant and would then literally spit over the object-like the hands you see👆- making an outline of it. Using tools to mash up whatever the medium was and others to "draw" or paint objects came later. The 1st discovered human forms of human art were... Spit paintings? Is that what they'd be called? LOL I don't remember the historical name ascribed to them. Super cool bit of trivia though. (Again, thank you PBS.)
Nykky 2 years ago
My question is how did they get their hands outlined, ya know? They didn't have spray cans.
LauraDragonWench 2 years ago
See the comment from @Trash Panda: they chewed up the paint material and sprayed it with their mouth over their hands. So, yeah, they did have spray cans - their mouths.
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Paul Richards 2 years ago
Graham Hancock looks less like a kook than mainstream archeologists who say we only emerged from caves less than 10000 years ago
#10
Van Gogh Captured His Perspective From An Asylum In The Starry Night
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I always see Starry Night as Van Gogh showing us his impression (you know, being an impressionist and all) of what the wind and stars actually look and feel like—-painting them for someone who needed to physically see the swirls of the wind and feel the glow of the stars. All to make us feel them much more keenly. It just FEELS like a clear June night, with the wind blowing, the starlight glowing in the sky, and a village not far away. Maybe a better example of his work that explains what I mean more clearly is his Sunflowers. The chromium yellow paint he used to paint them makes you actually feel heat radiating off the canvas, as if you’re standing in a real field of sunflowers—-or rather, tiny suns giving off heat—-on a bright summer day. Even before I read about the man, Van Gogh’s paintings always inspired such reactions from me, as well as a huge amount of emotion. My belief is that THAT was what he strived to achieve. I wish I could tell him that he succeeded. Far far beyond even his own expectations.
AJay 3 years ago
Yes! Finally someone managed to put it into words! I couldn't agree more Kathryn Baylis
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Doodles1983 2 years ago
His work is the only work I’ve seen that evokes various “feels” of what is happening. I feel movement in this. In Sunflowers I feel warmth. And I have never seen any works of his in reality. I imagine it becomes stronger.
gilliansl aka Gillian Silverlight 2 years ago
I LOVE this painting. But all his work in general makes me wonder if he needed glasses.
Judith Remkes 2 years ago
I used to love this painting, until I got a jigsaw puzzle of it. Now, all I see is the creepy skull, with Elvis hair, one eye and one empty socket, and the kind of funny single tooth sticking up from its bottom lip. Hard to unsee. Still mesmerising though.
The creation and rise of technology ushered in a new age in visual art. On a professional level, you have everyone from architecture to graphic and web design to film creation and animation to fashion design and the like all using technology to make art a tangible and practical reality. It’s amazing what a keyboard, a mouse, and drawing pad can achieve.
But then there’s technical innovation that has introduced completely new forms of art, like laser shows and digital performance art.
“The most popular forms of modern art these days are often created using technology—computers. Not only have they become easily accessible to the majority of people, but they also don’t require a spacious art studio, a variety of tools, and it’s just fast,” added Skaistė.
#11
Leonardo Da Vinci Was A Procrastinator
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
I would love to see some evidence to go along with this statement. I am really curious.
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Seems he was super busy and maybe a perfectionist. Procrastinators like me don’t have to be busy to avoid the thing we are supposed to be doing and we turn in whatever garbage is acceptable at the deadline. He spent years perfecting things no matter how many times he was told to finish it. Seems like he had an entirely different problem to me
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I wanted to join a procrastinators club but apparently waiting 6 months to return the application was too soon.
Ashley Kuras-Schoonbeek 2 years ago
I read something that said art is not meant to be made in stolen moments only, so if he was stealing moments to doodle or make an observation he was probably doing art for someone else and was thinking about what he wanted to do instead
#12
Picasso Believed That Art Is Done To Wash Away The Dust Of Our Daily Lives From Our Souls
DEW 2 years ago
I have found that art is very relaxing. Before I became a parent I would see parents sitting at the doctor's or in a waiting room sitting and coloring with their kiddo's. I always thought it had to be boring. I was babysitting and they wanted me to color with them and it was sooo nice. It didn't matter what you color it's just something that is so relaxing with anything arts and crafts related. The other thing is when you lay down on your tummy and the kids run their cars on your back. That is relaxing too
Heleen Sieborgs 2 years ago
I have an aversion for Picasso. Not for his art per se, but for his treatment of women. He treated them with absolute disrespect.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
That's the first thing I've heard about picasso that I agree with
Lorraine R 2 years ago
But he painted them ugly, not because they actually were ugly, but because his vision of women was badly distorted.
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Romanticism Was A Cultural Movement That Originated In Europe And Also Gave Rise To The Importance Of Plein Air Painting
Kea_Tortilla 3 years ago
Apparently, it was a direct reaction to the Industrial Revolution. The romantics were great lovers of nature and despised the growing industrialisation of cities such as London and Sheffield
Salty Baritone 2 years ago
Not exactly. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to the middle class and the affordability of art for the masses. As a result, people were able to do and see more of the world and each other rather than complete and total back breaking labor, they moved up to less back breaking labor and had time for more. It wasn’t a protest against Industry, it was a gift born of modernization. The biggest piece was the invention of the cheaper upright piano that was a sign of the middle class.
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Thorsten Massow 2 years ago
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. This Picture is less than 20 km away from me right now.
Duane Martin 2 years ago
Some of the most interesting things I learn here.. are from you folks in the comment section. I really enjoy a well educated and informed person's opinion/comments ❤️
Claire Cotts 2 years ago
Actually, one of the factors that lead to plein air painting was being able to buy ready-made paint in tubes with the advent of industrialization, which happened around this time, rather than having to grind and prepare your own pigments into paint
Bill Marsano 2 years ago
But until industrialzation threatened the landscape, artists ignored. Cue Joni Mitchell: "Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got til it's gone."
#14
'The Scream', The Most Well-Known Piece By Expressionist Artist Edvard Munch, Exists In Five Different Versions
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
They figured out why the sky is red, too! Seems he painted it when there had been a major volcanic eruption a long way off, which made the sky look like that. Also I read that the guy in the foreground isn't actually screaming but covering his ears to blot out the sound of something else screaming.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
It's a fascinating theory fort sure, but it is disputed. Munch was an expressionist, meaning that his images were an abstract representation of the artist's feeling and emotional expressions. It is very evident from his portraits, that only barely resemble the actual subject but have a powerful aura. Munch himself described his inspiration being a sunset he saw while walking with friends in Oslo, that compared with the deep blue water gave him an attack of melancholy and anxiety. Other than that, the first out of five (known) paintings was completed 10 years after the eruption. Munch was known to be slow to complete his artworks, but 10 years between creation and showing seems a bit too much.
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Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
The poor guy sudenly was able to listen to the noise that the Sun does (but doesn't come here due to space vacuum, I guess)
#15
Pablo Picasso Was A Prime Suspect In The Theft Of The Mona Lisa In 1911, But He Was Proven To Be Innocent After The Trials
DC 2 years ago
You just made a german laugh. You know I'm gonna be expatriated now, because I didn't go to the basement, but stayed on the groundnearest level, where I live anyway, ...
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Paul Brown 2 years ago
I dont think that is the real Mona Lisa. The real Mona Lisa is 2'6" x1'9". Sorry I'm American and don't know the metric system of measurements.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Picasso must have left evidence behind because he was in his Clue Period.
Lady of the Mountains 2 years ago
He was suspect because he had bought some stolen art from the time period, and when the Mona Lisa was stolen he started acting really suspicious/guilty. People knew he was after art of that time period as inspirartion for his own art, and so they brought him in for trial. The painting was actially stolen by a contracted worker inthe museum who thought it was wrongfully removed from Italy (it wasn't) and was trying to return it to its home country. As soon as he approached italian museum officials about it, they turned him in. The painting had been missing for a year or two at that point.
Michele Celeste 3 years ago
Why would someone who chooses to paint like Picasso be interested in an art piece like the Mona Lisa? Knowing an art thief and being one are very different things!
andrea jennings 2 years ago
He was such a nice man. Met him when I was very young when my great aunt bought several pieces from him. He personally delivered them and signed them for her. He brought his daughter Paloma and she was very nice as well. I couldn't fathom him stealing anything but my heart!
She continued: “What’s happening now—AI (Artificial Intelligence) art—is an inevitability. Back in the day, when the digital art era was just kicking off, a lot about it was unknown to us. Some feared for the fate of those who chose traditional and classic forms of expression. In the end, nothing bad really happened. Some artists adapted—others stayed true to the classics.”
“It’s also important to consider the audience: each has its own taste and opinion. Some like digital works, while others disagree and look for more authentic, hand-made pieces of art. Art evolves just like humankind always has.”
“AI is what’s trending now, but it’s hard to speculate what the future holds at this point. Who knows, maybe analog will become the next big thing.”
#16
Salvador Dali Got The Idea For His Famous Melting Clocks From Watching Pieces Of Camembert Cheese Melt In The Sun
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
And hopefully not that naïve and stupid to think that a wild cat is a suitable pet.
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KombatBunni 2 years ago
I went to a Dali exhibition once many years ago at the National Gallery of Victoria here in Australia..and ooh boy I really wished I’d been drunk or high to understand it better..
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 2 years ago
"The only difference between me and a madman is I am not mad." - Dali
MarcyParlomerNerdGirlsRock 3 years ago
The cat is like, I tried to warn you but the rat ate it’
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#17
Pablo Picasso Was An Animal Lover Who Had A Monkey, Goat, Owl, Turtle, Lots Of Cats And Dogs
Alicia M 2 years ago
IMO, this is his only redeeming quality because I don't like his art.
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Eva Kašu 3 years ago (edited)
...and still was a d******d to women. Love for animals says nothing about your character as a human being.
DC 2 years ago
It sure does, it just doesn't say all that is of interest. A person who acts cruel or ignorant towards other animals can never make up for that character flaw by however nice they act within their own species. And the other way, too, of course - to not be shiddy, you gotta not be shiddy anywhere.
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Michele Monfrecola 2 years ago
Lmao this is the nicest comment I read about him, yeah he was a real a$$hole with women
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Salma Hernández 2 years ago (edited)
In his last years he got a dachshund that he adores. Doggo died and one week later Picasso did. Just search Picasso and Lump.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Nope. No you don't. You like the cutesy tv version of keeping a monkey, not the reality of a wild, sometimes vicious, aggressively sexual animal that's not afraid to bite or throw feces and semen at you while going increasingly insane from the social isolation. Pet monkeys are the pinnacle of cruelty.
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One Of The Fathers Of The Impressionist Movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Had Suffered From Rheumatoid Arthritis
Earl Grey 3 years ago
In his later years he would have an assistant tape a paintbrush up in his gnarled hand so that he could continue to be productive.
Ela 2 years ago
This cruel disease doesn't just attack the joints. In it's later and more severe forms it can devastate any system in the body, often seemingly out of nowhere. In the case of someone I am close to, we discovered hers was complicating when one of her corneas ruptured. An emergency transplant surgery saved her eye but her vision is significantly damaged. Now, it is ravaging her lungs. Eventually it will kill her. It is slow, painful, horrific to watch or endure.
Vicki Cunningham 2 years ago
I have 4 Renoirs. but Impressionism is my favorite art. I don't know why.
#19
The 3500-Year-Old Kerala Murals Were Made Entirely Of Natural Paints And Vegetable Dyes, Leaving Them Completely Eco-Friendly
Show thyself 3 years ago
Okay. What did they think the people where able to use besides eco-friendly material 3500y ago?
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
On some ancient Egyptian scrolls they used a yellow that contained arsenic sulfide, many paints over the years contained poisonous ingredients, vermillion is from cinnabar which contains mercury, lead white used to contain actual lead, and cadmium is banned is some places.
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Origami Chik3n 3 years ago
I'm surprised that people still think that everything plant based = eco-friendly. All the particles in smoke from burning wood are plant-based, but not necessarily eco-friendly. How many plants and animals were destroyed to make these "eco-friendly" dyes?
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
How many of those plants and animals would still be alive now?
Load More Replies... Jonny westen 2 years ago
Indian art is some of the most beautiful art in the world, in my opinion.
LauraDragonWench 2 years ago
Of course they were "eco-friendly" - synthetic paints and dyes weren't created until after the Industrial Revolution. But what does "eco-friendly" mean in this context? Yeah, the paints may have been "natural" but that doesn't mean they were necessarily safe. Plants can be poisonous, minerals can contain heavy metals such as lead... If, however, this article is suggesting that the paints and dyes were crafted without using animal by-product binders - as many were - then that's how the title should've been phrased. Jeez. 🙄
Thomas Henry Horan 2 years ago
Um...ALL ancient paints were made from natural materials. They still are.
#20
Before Committing Suicide In 1890, Van Gogh Sold Only One Painting, 'The Red Vineyard'
Nilsen 3 years ago
He sold a lot of paintings. He earned a living by selling paintings. Not his own paintings though, he worked in a shop selling paintings done by other people.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
His brother Theo had a studio where he showed paintings, including Vincent’s, and sold—-or tried to sell—-them. Theo also encouraged his brother to keep painting, and supported him financially. So, maybe not exactly making a living, but certainly encouraged and supported while striving to paint exactly how a scene made him feel.
Load More Replies... Lorraine R 3 years ago
He may not have committed suicide -- some evidence has come to light that the gunshot may have been accidental.
The Silly Stellar Jay 2 years ago (edited)
His work was ahead of his time for sure. We can hope he sees the appreciation of it beyond the grave.
Sue From Michigan 2 years ago
It's almost hard to believe that no one in his time thought his work was special.
Analyn Lahr 2 years ago
And I think, but don't quote me, that he sold it to his brother. I'm often wrong though.
Loretta 2 years ago
I read an article that the more empathic version of the phrase "commit suicide" is "die of suicide", just like you wouldn't say someone committed cancer.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Hmm I see what you mean, but I've always felt it as "committed yourself to",
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Lastly, we’ve asked Skaistė about the challenges that modern professional artists face. She singled out competition as being among the biggest offenders. Sure, competition has always been a thing, but considering how much tech has made art accessible, this in turn empowered more players in the market.
But, on the other hand, there’s also a variety of ways to get your art out there—all you need to do is to use them.
#21
Like Maths, Creativity Can Be Learned
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Not necessarily the creativity itself, but the understanding that it’s OK to let it loose TO BE creative. People, institutions, and society itself are guilty of suppressing a vast amount of talent, by making so many talented people feel embarrassed or paralyzingly insecure about letting their creativity flow and flourish. So don’t be an a*****e. Be careful of the words and tone of voice you use when a child shows you something they created (painted, wrote, composed, invented, etc). Same goes for the grades they worked hard to achieve in school. Realize and recognize the effort, not just the letter or GPA, ffs. Of course, that means you have to pay attention to your kids, to know how hard they worked to bring a grade up, no matter how far up they got it. Callous words and an insulting tone of voice can absolutely kill a child’s desire to explore, develop, and expand talents and intellect they possess.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
*applause* You reminded me of a scene in "Men Who Stare At Goats". "Is it that you *don't* dance, or that someone told you you *shouldn't*?"
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James Gilbreath 3 years ago
That is the most truth I've ever heard in my entire life. God bless you for recognizing and stating it! This has ruined the majority of my life.and caused me to believe that I was worthless.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Can you cook, can you crochet, can you dance, can you tell a good joke: art includes but is not limited to
Load More Replies... Doug the Special one 2 years ago
I am an arsehole but I know it and embrace it as my creative force.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Your art may be writing, sorry you have just outed yourself as artist
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Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
Saying “I’m not artistic” shows that you believe that being artistic means being on par with someone else’s skill set, which is sad. Create, be bold, do YOUR thing and don’t be intimidated! Art isn’t confined to canvas nor is it comparing your skills to anyone else’s. Creating a new thing that YOU think is lovely and makes YOU happy is art.
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
🎶 Flowers are red, young man, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen. 🎶 🎵There are so many colors in a rainbow. So many colors in the morning sun. So many colors in a flower, and I see every one. 🎵
Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago
Depends on WHAT one calls creativity. Personally have always preferred to create useful things. Chook years, Dog Agility Equipment, mending fences, fixing broken doors, Painting pictures is simply painting pictures NOT being creative.
#22
Claude Monet Was Advised To Work As A Grocer Rather Than As An Artist
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
And yet he painted one of my favourite paintings. His series of Water Lilies ... I just look at and feel a sense of calm. They're beautiful.
Mimi M 3 years ago
Currently on my wall (repros on canvas). Actually four of his paintings, including Water Lillies.
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Asphalt Bubblegum 2 years ago
The world is a better place because this artist followed his own voice instead of the voices of those who couldn't hear the same song.
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
I'm an impressionist. I once sold a painting for a bag of jalapeno poppers, and Monet never once sold a painting for jalapeno poppers. I win! 😸
Auntriarch 2 years ago
Hell yeah, I love jalapeno poppers! But I make my own, does that mean I'm a jalapenist, sorry I'm just realised how wrong to that looks
Load More Replies... Michele Celeste 3 years ago
Just goes to show, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and in this case they were blind!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
And the person who told him that only f****d themself and secured their place as one of the biggest, and blindest, a******s in history.
#23
Due To All The Love Messages She Gets, The Mona Lisa Has Her Own Mailbox In The Louvre
Thorsten Massow 2 years ago
She herself. Every night after the doors of the Louvre are closed, she leaves her frame, walks down the empty halls to the mail box and collects all those letters. Since she was created by a genius, she can read every language.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
They were going to upgrade her to email, but then came the d**k pics
Moo Moo Futch 2 years ago
I KNOW I am not the only one to say this but I went and saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. It was so underwhelming when I saw how small it was. Honestly was way more taken in by seeing Caravaggio's pieces in their full glory.
I Just Live Here 2 years ago
And you have to stand so far away from it as well, due to the security. I was let down as well. The artistry would probably be more apparent if the painting could be examined up close while in person, but only special folks get that opportunity.
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Temporary Dork 2 years ago
Juliet (by Shakespeare), who is even more fictional, also gets a lot of mail.
#24
The Easter Island Heads Have Bodies
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I don't know what evidence they have but a rule of thumb is if archeologists can't figure out a function, they label it religious until they do. I find this extremely amusing
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Mr. Sourcrowd 🧐 2 years ago
To everbody who's interested in: There's a great documentary about how the heads were moved from 1960 with Thor Heyerdahl called 'Aku Aku'. Unfortunately it's not streamed yet. Heyerdahl combined an ritual dance with the claim that the heads were moved upright. I loved his films when I was younger!
Jesper Nielsen 2 years ago
The bodies are often buried. The reason for this was deforestation by the native inhabitants, mainly to get logs to move the statues. The trees roots kept the soil in place, but after they had removed most of the trees, ground erosion was inevitable. Over time the soil moved downhill, and covered the statue's bodies.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Only found this out quite recently, which is amazing, but I always suspected it.
#25
In 1961, 'Le Bateau' By Henri Matisse Was Hung Upside Down At The Museum Of Modern Art In New York, And It Was Around 46 Days Before Anyone Noticed
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
Thank you! Would have been helpful if the original post contained this - it clearly is an easy mistake to make!
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
An artist like Matise might say that the painting was hung correctly - but the gallery was upside down.
Jaya 2 years ago
46 days sounds like a long time, until you learn they recently discovered that a Mondriaan painting has been hanging upside down in museums for 75 years. It's an abstract painting, but still, 75 years! It has been upside down since 1945. And it's gonna stay upside down, because it's too vulnerable to turn around now.
El Dee 2 years ago
I googled it and this doesn't surprise me one bit. If a painting requires that you be told which way up to hang it then it's just a pattern..
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
Why so dismissive? There are even photographs with reflections in the water where you are hard pressed to tell reflection from reality
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Be sure to check out more from Skaistė on her Etsy store where you can buy her originals as well as prints. Or you can also follow her Instagram if you love seeing lovely things in your feed.
But there’s still more to see in this artsy fartsy list, so continue scrolling. And while you’re at it, leave a comment with a fun art fact that you wish more people knew about!
#26
Michelangelo And Leonardo Da Vinci Revolutionized The Way Human Bodies Were Portrayed In Paintings
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
If you look at paintings—-specifically those more like portraits of real people—-before and after Da Vinci, you’ll see the difference in proportion, as well as more, sometimes gritty, realism.
ReenieTino 2 years ago
ESPECIALLY how babies were painted...like little old men.
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Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago
Da Vinci studied and dissected cadavers to truly understand the human form.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)
A poster of this was on the wall in Captain Marvel and they censored the "bits". So ridiculous.
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Even Though There Are Over 50 Casts Of Auguste Rodin's Well-Known Sculpture The Thinker All Across The World, Its Beginnings Were Far More Modest
"What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils, and his compressed lips, but with every muscle in his arms, back, and legs, with his clenched fist, and with his gripping toes", as the creator himself described what made his sculpture so difficult and predetermined to make.
Edda Kamphues 2 years ago
I'm in two minds about Rodin. He claimed a lot of Camille Claudel's works as his own...
Brice Sang 2 years ago
Too bad. I'm thinking he's really concerned about how you feel about him.
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Debby Keir 2 years ago
I have a 15cm high (plus marble base) certified copy of the Thinker. Lots of copies in various sizes were made, and they're not that expensive to buy (I paid about £110 about 12 years ago) I'm secretly proud of owning a signed Rodin. 🙃
Thorsten Massow 2 years ago (edited)
Most interesting in my opinion: the original size is surprisingly small: 72cm x 45 cm x 56 cm Many copies are sized up.
Michael Wilmer 2 years ago
All versions of the Thinker were identical, cast from the same mold. There is one inique version as a result of a bomb. The one that sits in front of the Cleveland (?) museum of art had its base blown apart in the early 1970s
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#28
The First Pencil Was Invented In England In 1565
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Was the first pencil sharpener that wasn’t a knife (which is an overly difficult and really s****y sharpener) invented in 1566?
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Schoolchildren would sharpen pencils by rubbing them on bricks. My, by today about 300yr old, primary school still had the indentations. I use this method when working outside as it's easier than going in and looking for a sharpener.
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Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
Additionally, pencils are yellow because the best graphite came from China and their country color was yellow. So yellow pencils signified they were the superior pencil. (https://elective.collegeboard.org/mostly-everything-you-always-wanted-know-about-pencils)
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Wait, wasn't the first pencil invented in France???? The purest deposits of lump graphite were found in Borrowdale near Keswick [England] in the Lake District in 1564 and spawned quite a smuggling industry and associated black economy in the area. During the nineteenth century a major pencil manufacturing industry developed around Keswick in order to exploit the high quality of the graphite. https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/24/history-of-the-pencil/
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
And you can still visit the old pencil factory, now the pencil museum, in Keswick. I'd advise giving it a look, it's fascinating.
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#29
The Seven Different Types Of Art Include Painting, Literature, Music, Architecture, Sculpture, Theater, And Cinema
sofacushionfort 3 years ago (edited)
Industrial design, high couture, and cuisine can also be considered arts. “Martial arts,” “the Art of War” etc. may be a form of theater, but I’ll prefer not to attend
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
And there's Art Carney, Art Fleming, Art Garfunkel, Art Linkletter, and of course "Wherefore art thou, Romeo"
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William Tinsley 3 years ago
What about photography? Isn't that an artform? Or collage? Or do those fall under one of the other seven?
Hobby Hopper 2 years ago
They are art made of many other diverse pieces of art coming together. Drawing, architecture, animation, storytelling, musical composition, etc., all combined seamlessly. Literal decades of labor can go into making a single game.
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#30
The Main Themes In Romanticism Art Were Human Psychology, Expression Of Personal Feeling And Nature
Margaret H 3 years ago
That satin really captures the lustre of the silk. Hayez did a brilliant job of this.
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eMpTy 3 years ago
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's paintings of Mary Magdalene are amazing examples of capturing the sheen of fabrics (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Giovanni+Girolamo+Savoldo+Mary+Magdalene&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images)
Load More Replies... Earl Grey 3 years ago
This is exquisite and makes me wonder who might be eavesdropping behind that wall.
Margaret H 3 years ago
Yes. Who's casting that shadow through the doorway?
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#31
Rococo Artwork Showed Wealthy People Engaging In Luxurious Leisure Activities And Romantic Adventures
Apachebathmat 2 years ago
That painting is beautiful but did the artist just say “f**k it” when it came to painting the book?
The Silly Stellar Jay 2 years ago
Well, this is just basic fact among art scholars. Only it is done gaudily/over the top. Doesn't really fit the post.
Ugh_What_Now 2 years ago
Because wealthy people could afford to read, especially wealthy women.
Load More Replies... Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago
What I wouldn’t give to experience life in France as an aristocrat during the Rococo period! Well, the first part at least. . . :)
#32
Dali Believed He Was The Reincarnation Of His Older Brother Also Named Salvador Dali
Edie Hart 2 years ago
I'm glad I am not the only person to think he was a total nutcase!
Load More Replies... Mz Phit 2 years ago
I wrote a paper on this ( artists that were named after dead siblings) when I was in university- a cruelty from the parents IMHO
Marvin HoG 2 years ago
Wasn't Van Gogh also named after a brother who died before he was born?
Load More Replies... Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago (edited)
No, his PARENTS believed that. And it seriously messed him up. For starters, he uh, didn’t name himself?
Lorraine R 3 years ago (edited)
American artist Charles Willson Peale's first wife gave birth to ten children, one of whom was a son named Titian Ramsay Peale. Young Titian died 18 years later, and the next son born to Peale's (second) wife was named Titian Ramsay Peale II, in memory of his dead brother. Titian II became a distinguished artist, scientist and explorer.
Vanessa Panerosa 2 years ago (edited)
I woulda gone as Ramsey II but I’m in Egypt right now so I guess that’s what’s on my mind lol
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
I did not know that. Seems kind of messed up. Born 9 months after his 3 year old older brother died. So basically, their kid dies so they get busy right away and crank out another one and give it the same name. Makes you wonder if his reincarnation belief was fueled by whatever his parents told him while he was growing up.
Katy McMouse 2 years ago
Any US pandas watch the tv show FBI? It's always driven me crazy trying to figure out who the actor who plays Scola looks like. With this post, I've finally figured it out.
#33
Michelangelo Painted The Sistine Chapel’s Fresco Ceiling Entirely Standing Up, Including The Most Famous Wall, 'The Creation Of Adam'
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
His back must’ve been made of steel, because standing up while looking and reaching up to paint a ceiling would just totally f**k my back, neck, and painting arm up.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
I think a lot of it was spent lying on his back on scaffolding. Still, I bet he has some hellacious arms after that
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TTorrest Author 2 years ago
Thank you for this! In my pre-author life, I was a muralist. I was once commissioned to paint Cabanel's "Birth of Venus" on a 30' ceiling, and I remember being VERY aware that there was NO WAY anyone would've chosen to paint lying on their back. It would require laying mere inches from the surface, leaving an awkward amount of space to mix colors, step back and gauge perspective, etc. Glad to see Michelangelo did, in fact, approach this the same as I did LOL.
Kharyss 2 years ago
Watch “The Agony and the Ecstasy”. Not an amazingly great film. Some serious overacting from Charlton Heston. But good at showing the painting process.
MAKtheknife 3 years ago
He had a lot of assistants to help him with this amazing feat. He also wrote a poem about his fate in having to do this. And he did have a scaffolding, of course.
xxGypsyxx 2 years ago
I am so incredibly excited (& can't believe) that I'll be seeing this with my own eyes in a few short weeks! My Mother & I will be traveling for a two-week mother/daughter tour of Italy together with her best friend (aka my "Other-Mother"; both 70), & her daughter (both 50), in September, 2023. For us this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, & I can't wait to see the Sistine Chapel, the Coliseum, & Pompei! I never thought I would have the opportunity to do this, & I'm beyond thrilled to experience it with these beautiful, amazing women. It will be the trip of a lifetime for us, & I am so grateful for this opportunity!
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Ok so it was also done in only candle light because he had the windows boards up so the peksy church couldn't spy on his doings, he never saw all of it u til it was done, and he got multiple ones over on the church by painting lots of nude dudes and a single half head higher than Jesus self portrait (that went unnoticed for hundreds of years as being higher thn Jesus which was a no no)
#34
The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold Is Leonardo Da Vinci 'Salvator Mundi': Sold For $450.3 Million
JB 3 years ago
Yes, representing the world/all creation. However, Da Vinci deliberately painted a mistake into it: a glass ball would actually flip the image, making it upside-down and backwards, but that's not what he painted. Instead, the cloth and hand are only slightly magnified and obscured by the orb.
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Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I always thought that painting a globe for the sake of symbolism was ever his intention. He wouldn't have made the mistake of not painting the effect of a solid glass orb would produce - you wouldn't see much, if any, detail through it. I like to think it was him showing off a bit, like he can paint anything convincingly, even something as close to invisible as you can get, such as glass, and STILL give it dimensionality. I could easily and happily stare at this work for hours.
Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Most likely not Da Vinci. In it's current state 80-85% the restorer (Dianne Dwyer Modestini). Original state one of Da Vinci's students (Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio) with maybe some touches by the Master himself. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/carmen-bambach-leonardo-da-vinci-1562602
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#35
Art Is A Tool For Developing Critical Thinking And Imagination
Steve Robert 3 years ago
And yet we still won't fund it in our primary schools. Shameful and sad
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Almost as if that was the exact reason conservatives always want to cut its funding.
KingsRaven 2 years ago (edited)
You know what else teaches critical thinking? Every other subject in school. Get over yourself. Also that funding is decided in local elections where many people running don't have political affiliations.
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Tim Douglass 2 years ago
And yet we love to make fun of having to play the recorder. You weren't learning "Hot Cross (Crossed?) Buns" you were learning critical thinking and imagination.
Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago
Nup nup nup nup! Making things (carpentry, wood work, even cooking) and learning science. Going out and actually doing some field work.
#36
Warli Art Origins Go Back To 2500 BC
MAKtheknife 3 years ago
And we all know there is art work that goes back much farther than 2500 BC, such as Lascaux for one.
#37
In 1911 After The Mona Lisa Was Stolen From The Louvre, More People Came To See The Empty Gap Left On The Wall Than Ever Before
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Excellent observation 🤣. I remember thinking it was so odd that people walk right past a hundred gigantic wall sized paintings to look at one tiny painting. And apparently they will do it to see a blank wall too
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
I got to see her at the Louvre in the 60s. No barriers then. I was amazed at her small size.
Lady of the Mountains 2 years ago
It wasn't hanging in any special place like it is now, it was just amoung other peices hanging loosely on the wall. The thievery made the painting so much more famous than da vincis other works, everyone was following the story
Marykay Klim 3 years ago
Same at the Isabella Gardener Museum in Boston. Now that was a brazen couple of crooks! I would have loved to see Rembrandt's painting of Christ on the Sea (I know that's not its real name, but it's the only water scene he ever did.)
Michele Celeste 3 years ago
What does it say about people that they get more out of staring at a blank wall than at fine art
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Still memorialized in London Tube stations with signs telling people to "Mind" it.
Timbob 2 years ago
There were other times when it was gone? (Isn’t empty gap kinda like a double negative?)
Matthew Gobbell 2 years ago
No. You can have a gap that isn't empty. A gap with filler for example. Like when you caulk a bathroom or sink. The gap remains, but it's not empty.
Load More Replies... Earl Grey 3 years ago
For the life of me, I will never ever understand the international fascination and downright worship of this painting.
Patricia the Grey 2 years ago
I agree; I don't understand the fascination with the Mona Lisa. That being said, I didn't get the magnificence and glory of Michelangelo's "David" until I saw it in person. My mouth dropped open.
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The Color Wheel Existed Before United States
Fenchurch 3 years ago
They thought this would be a real shocker. You know what I find more interesting? English language didn’t have a word for the color orange until the 1500’s. Before that it was called yellow-red. So this particular color wheel was made after the 1500’s
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Cardimom Brennan 2 years ago (edited)
Of course it did. Isn't that common knowledge? People existed before the US as well, everyone got that memo?
Evelyn Haskins 2 years ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahah -- even the Earth existed before the USA! English was spoken before the USA. Mathematics was discovered before the USA, Civilisation was discovered before the USA, I mean WHO made this title up???
#39
Willard Wigan, An Artist, Once Inhaled His Own Creation
Abigail Strong 3 years ago (edited)
For any of you wondering how, he is a miniature artist, once creating a sculpture of the white house that could fit on the head of a pin. Look him up, he's really cool (edit) also he's hot
Bobby 2 years ago
How many people looked him up to just see how good looking he was? I'm one of them
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Kate Johnson 3 years ago
If you're going to use a generic image of a sculptor for this entry, you could've at least found one with a Black person!!
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
his work is really cool, they should've actually used a photo of him for this post... I also wanted to see how hot he was based on the above reply :P
Khall Khall 2 years ago
I used to know a lot of "artists" who inhaled their own creations. Unimpressed.
#40
The Word “Art” Is Derived From The Latin Word “Ars,” Which Means “Art, Talent, Or Craft"
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I don't care if this was last week, you have won the internet today!
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Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 3 years ago
Ars, artis -n. It means skill, too, if I remember correctly.
#41
A Perfect Example Of Baroque Architecture Is The Trevi Fountain In Rome
#42
Learning Art Is Closely Correlated With Success In Math And Literacy
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic that developed insomnia? He'd lay awake nights, wondering if there really was a dog.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 2 years ago
Hmmm. I rocked math and literacy, but totally blow at pretty much anything artistic.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I found that good art students we're also good at geometry - 2D and 3D - because of better spatial perception. (It was also the only math class where they got to draw much.)
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#43
Because Of His High Debts, Rembrandt Was Banned From Selling Art And Had To Sell His House Instead
Danish Susanne 3 years ago
But selling his art might go a long way toward paying his depts. The decision makes no sense.
Thorsten Massow 2 years ago (edited)
The problem is not that he was banned from selling his art. The art market at the time of his bankruptcy was down, too many good art, too few customers and money. Even after all his paintings (and antique statues, he was an avid collector) had been auctioned off, he still had depts and had to rely on the help of his son and daughter-in-law.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
What? For the average American, bankruptcy is devastating and not easily recovered from. What you said just sounds catty and makes absolutely no sense.
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Picasso Could Draw Before He Could Walk
Bobby 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing, but Mozart kv 1 is pretty well documented he wrote that at 5, and if you give it a listen... blows my mind a 5yo error it
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#45
Pablo Picasso First Word Was The Spanish Word For Pencil
maragato 2 years ago
Someone asked him how to say pencil in spanish (Castilian)
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Greeks Took Inspiration For Sculpture-Making From Ancient Egyptian Art
pink_panda 2 years ago
Lol nothin just hanging out with my botanical club feeling kinda cute wbu?
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#47
Baroque Originated As A Style Of Architecture, Later Artists Have Adapted This Movement Into Their Paintings And Other Works Of Art
Jonathan Brooks 3 years ago
“And, as I always say, if it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it.” - Cogsworth, #BeautyAndTheBeast
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
that line pops into my head every single time i hear the word "baroque"
Load More Replies... Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
Once they sold a few pieces, they weren't Baroque any longer.
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The Louvre Museum In Paris, France, Is The Most Visited And Famous Museum In The World
Almostfoxlike 3 years ago
Mistakenly bought a museum pass for all museums in Paris and went to the Louvre first. Could have spent 3 days in there and not seen everything, much less have time for *other* museums.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I skipped the Louvre altogether and went to see the Impressionists in the Musee d'Orsay and L'Orangerie. I do have a pic pf myself posing by the glass pyramid though!
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1000 Used Tea Bags Were Put Together To Form The Queen Elizabeth II Portrait By English Artist Andy Brown
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
since BP has decided not to grace us with the actual artwork, here it is: God-Save-t...93053f.jpg 
Xenon 3 years ago
Thanks. Seriously why didn't they? I think they're getting lazier.
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Nikolaj Christensen 3 years ago
And like her, they probably will get more and more bitter, and irrelevant by time...
#50
The Youngest Professional Artist, Arushi Bhatnagar Had Her First Solo Exhibition When She Was 11 Months Old And Sold Her First Art Work Through It
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I tried to find some early paintings of hers but couldn't. I saw one she did when she was 6 and it seemed a bit advanced for her age by maybe 2 years but not show stopping. Her recent stuff is really nice. It makes me wonder if her parents just had art connections and just encouraged her. Encouragement and giving kids supplies and freedom do a lot
#51
In The Tate Modern Museum In 2003, Street Artist Banksy Taped His Own Creations On The Wall
It's not the only joke that Banksy has pulled on the art world. Banksy entered the Louvre Museum in October 2004 and put his own replica of the Mona Lisa inside. The famous smile of the Mona Lisa had been changed to a yellow, acidic smiling expression. Mona Lisa Smile was the name of this painting. The painting was sold at auction for over £60,000 two years later.
How long the painting was left is not known to the general population.
Phil Green 2 years ago
The image is the Tate, not the Tate Modern, which is further east along the river.
#52
Five Picasso Paintings Are Represented In the Top 25 Most Expensive Paintings List
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
Again....if you want to see, BP isn't helping. https://artincontext.org/most-expensive-paintings/
#53
Despite The Fact That The Renaissance Was Based In Italy, The Term Itself Is French
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Well, it comes from the italian Rinascimento, meaning "rebirth", though. It's most known in the french version because it was made popular in the XIX century by a french historian -Jules Michelet- who translated the word from the works of italian historian and artist Giorgio Vasari written three and a half centuries before. MIchelet included the term in the enormously influential "Historie de France", and it went on to be the standard term for the period.
François Carré 2 years ago
Correct. And the less famous Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) is actually the main author of the theory about Renaissance being a complete, entirely new era of civilization and that it all origined in medieval Italy. I wrote my graduate thesis about him a long time ago...
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#54
The Statue Of David Has Slightly Crossed Eyes, Maybe On Purpose
Almarako94 3 years ago
The left eye is like 30 degrees to the right, the right eye is more like 45 degrees to the side, you can see it.
Load More Replies... Ines Olabarria-Smith 3 years ago
Having a slight crossed eyes was considered beautiful. In Italian it’s called “strabismo di Venere”, Venus’ strabismus.
Jonathan Brooks 3 years ago
And his head is bigger in relation to his body - because of forced perspective from looking up at him!
Audra Sisler 2 years ago
Uhhhh it just looks like he's looking to the left🤔🤔 am I missing something???
#55
The Representation Of Biblical And Theological Themes Was A Major Focus Of Byzantine And Medieval Art During The Western Middle Ages
Bluetoyou 3 years ago
There is so much religious art from those time periods because the church is who had the money to pay for them. They hired the artists.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
It was also a tool the church used for educating the mostly illiterate masses.
Load More Replies... Steve Robert 3 years ago
And that is why when the Catholic Church was in power we call it The Dark Ages, currently being revived by the Supreme Court
Iustin Vreme 3 years ago (edited)
another one ignoring that the byzantines are orthodox.
Load More Replies... Lady of the Mountains 2 years ago
Yes of course, this is true throughout history a lot. We loose a lot of the non religeous art with the fall of Rome, and it isn't picked back up again until nearly the start of the renaissance. This particular artwork shown above is from the Constantine type of time period, think mosaics and haigia Sophia. Some of the pieces of this time are downright disturbing, as they focus on a vengeful and strict deity. Later the artworks show a more forgiving god as they het into the gothic ages and thigs lighten up.
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There Are 7 Definitions Of The Word ‘Art’ In The Oxford Dictionary
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The Pop-Art Depiction Of Campbell’s Soup Comes In A Set Of 32
Randy Volz 2 years ago
Come on, BP. The pic above has nothing to do with Warhol. https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-story-of-andy-warhols-campbells-soup-cans
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Picasso's Abstract Representation Of Five Prostitutes In Barcelona Was Considered As Immoral When It Was First Displayed In The Artist's Studio In 1907
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Is the problem the title? Because drawing nude women is nothing new... He didn't even add nipples
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Maybe the prostitute part. Naked ladies were fine to paint as long as they were Greek goddesses
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USA's Capitol Is The Most Popular Example Of The Neoclassical Artform
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
“Hopefully, if we design it with enough grandeur, dignity and nobility, fat morons wearing camouflage won’t break in and poop on the floors.”
Paul Pallansch 2 years ago
Bad photo editing. The capitol is several blocks away from the Washington Monument, and cannot be seen at any time reflected in the reflecting pool of that obelisk.
Load More Replies... Bird SharkRawr 3 years ago
The US capitol also has more bullsht artists in one location than anywhere else.
Jrog 2 years ago
Capitol is one of the few neoclassic buildings to feature a full-scale, proper dome, along with the Pantheon of Paris and a few others. That said, I agree this is skewed by the sampling of the poll. if you ask me examples of neoclassical architecture I would think of Buckingham Palace, the British Museum building in London and the "Vittoriano" in Rome well before even considering anything in the US.
Load More Replies... Lorraine R 2 years ago
This photo is ridiculous. The Washington Monument is 267 feet taller than the Capitol and they are about 3/4 of a mile apart. For scale, the statue on top of the Capitol is 19.5 feet high, not including the base.
M O'Connell 2 years ago
It may be Neoclassical in style, but is very much "Neo" in construction, being entirely cast iron.
Lorraine R 2 years ago
The dome is cast iron, but the rest of the building is stone.
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In 2008, A World Record Of 8ft 6 Inches, For The Highest Flying Toast From A Pop-Up Toaster Was Set At The Royal College Of Art Graduate Show
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The British Museum’s Collection Of South Indian Paintings Consists Of Around 1000 Items
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Yeah not sure this is something anyone should be bragging about. Millions died and their art got stolen
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AJay 3 years ago
How do we know that Banksy is just one artist, and not many artists all using the same style and name?
Mary Jeffries 2 years ago
There’s a great channel on YouTube call Great Art Explained. If you like a bit of background, check it out.
Stellar Wind 2 years ago
If you ever have he chance to tour a museum with someone who studies art ..do it! Listening to the explanations of why and how an artist did something. Why people are in particular positions in a paintnig, etc. An app called "Daily Art" provides a amall fraction of those things and is great
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How do we know that Banksy is just one artist, and not many artists all using the same style and name?
Mary Jeffries 2 years ago
There’s a great channel on YouTube call Great Art Explained. If you like a bit of background, check it out.
Stellar Wind 2 years ago
If you ever have he chance to tour a museum with someone who studies art ..do it! Listening to the explanations of why and how an artist did something. Why people are in particular positions in a paintnig, etc. An app called "Daily Art" provides a amall fraction of those things and is great
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