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Paul Gaugin, the French painter, was a labourer on the Panama Canal. About 25,000 workers died during its construction.

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English artist Andy Brown, created a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain by stitching together 1,000 used tea bags.

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Carbon paper was patented on October 7th 1806 by Ralph Wedgewood of London, England

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Picasso could draw before he could walk, and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.

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When Auguste Rodin exhibited his first important work, The Bronze Period, in 1878 it was so realistic that people thought he had sacrificed a live model inside the cast.

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The world famous Louvre Museum and Art Gallery in Paris, France was built in 1190 and was used as a fortress.

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That in 1495 Leonardo da Vinci designed a pyramid-shaped parachute, and began painting The Last Supper.

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Pablo Picasso loved animals. Through his adult life he owned a pet monkey, an owl, a goat, a turtle and packs of dogs and cats. He was known to leave his studio windows open and to paint the pigeons that flew through.

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The first pencil was invented in England in 1565

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Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

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People have been painting things for the past 20,000 years, but it wasn't until 1880 that you could purchase ready mixed paints.

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Wow Amazing facts about genius people!

Great Thread DA! :)

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Michelangelo Buonarroti's father Lodovico was horrified when he found out that Michelangelo decided to become an artist. Michelangelo was often beaten by his father and uncles when he first began to draw. Lodovico was proud of his ancestry and he worried that an artist in the family will bring the family a disgrace

artists are still treated as Mirasis in Pakistan

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Leonardo Da Vinci started painting Mona Lisa in 1504 or 1505 and finished
only shortly before he died in 1519. Some reports say that it took him 10 years
to perfect Mona Lisa’s lips. He was a procrastinator and often regretted not
finishing many of his works

itna time waste kia

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There was an art movement called Pop Art. In the mid-1950’s through to the early 1960’s an art movement called Pop Art celebrated images from popular culture, advertising and the mass media. Exponents of Pop Art employed collage, air-brush and other techniques sometimes duplicating commercial silk-screen effects by hand. Artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein took their subjects from popular American culture. Warhol’s ‘100 Cans of Campbell’s Soup’ and his repeated images of Marilyn Monroe are some of the most well known artworks to emerge from this movement.

nice information :k:

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Artist Edgar Degas was so fascinated with ballet dancers that he became obsessed with representing them in his art. It is estimated Degas made approximately 1500 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings of dancers

One of my favourite artists.

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Awesome information DA!

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thnkx, will share more :)

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An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.

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Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches