Top 10 facts about aRt
1.“The purpose of art
is washing the dust of daily life off our souls,” (Pablo Picasso).
2. From 1912-1948, the
Olympic Games awarded medals for artworks inspired by sport.
3. The phrase
“state-of-the-art” applied to the latest technology was first recorded in
1955.
4. The only painting
sold by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime was The Red Vineyard which was bought
by the Belgian artist Anna Boch.
5. Four of the 21 most
expensive paintings sold at auction are by van Gogh and four by Picasso.
6. In 1961, Henri
Matisse’s painting Le Bateau was hung upside down at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art for 46 days before anyone noticed.
7. When the Mona Lisa was
stolen from the Louvre in 1911, the empty space it left on the wall attracted more
visitors than the painting had.
8. A world record of 8ft
6in for the highest flying toast from a pop-up toaster was set at the Royal
College of Art graduate show in 2008.
9. “Art, n. This word has
no definition,” (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1906).
10. The Oxford English
Dictionary offers 12 different meanings for the noun ‘art’.
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