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Archive 1

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/1

November 2020

 
Prometheus (1930)

Archive 2

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/2

September 2020

Archive 3

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/3

11 August 2007

 

Archive 4

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31 March 2007

 

Archive 5

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/5

11 March 2007

 

Archive 6

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/6

4 March 2007

Archive 7

Portal:Visual arts/Did you know/Archive/7

24 December 2005

 
January, Très Riches Heures

Archive 8

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23 September 2005

 
The Blue Boy, painted 1770
  • …that was the first professional African-American and Native American sculptor was Edmonia Lewis?
  • …that the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, was helped to revitalize ukiyo-e by applying Western concepts of art to the traditional Japanese style?
  • …that Thomas Gainsborough painted The Blue Boy mainly to prove to his chief rival Joshua Reynolds that it was possible to use the color blue as the central color of a portrait?
  • …that many culturally significant sites of Australian Aboriginal art have been gradually desecrated and destroyed by encroachment of early settlers and modern-day visitors?
  • …that the original historical meaning of the word cartoon is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork?

Archive 9

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24 June 2005

 
BLAST literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
  • …that Vorticism, considered to be the only significant British artistic movement of the early twentieth century, lasted less than three years?
  • …that cycloramas, a popular 19th century entertainment, were cylindrical paintings of picturesque views designed to provide a viewer, standing in the middle of the cylinder, with a 360° view of the painting?
  • …that Irving Stone, author of the 1961 biographical novel about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy, learned to carve marble in preparation for his book?

Archive 10

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9 June 2005

  • …that the remaining panels of Duccio’s masterpiece, the Maestà, are divided between five cities?
 
Forbidden City Imperial Guardian Lions
  • …that, because the lion is not native to China, many of the guardian lion sculptures outside Chinese imperial palaces are based on Pekingese dogs?
  • …that the French art thief Stephane Breitwieser was able to recall every one of the 239 artworks he stole, even interrupting the reading of his collection during his trial several times to correct details?
  • …that the media used by British artist Andy Goldsworthy include twigs, thorns, mud, snow, icicles and leaves?
  • …that James McNeill Whistler’s death was prematurely reported by a Dutch newspaper, causing Whistler to remark that reading his own obituary gave him “a tender glow of health”?

Archive 11

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4 June 2005

 
 
  • ...that a physician has put forward the claim that background of the figure of God in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam is an anatomically accurate picture of the human brain?
  • ...that Mahatma Gandhi once said that the British art critic John Ruskin had been the single greatest influence in his life?
  • ...that in 1930 stamps depicting Goya's painting The Nude Maja were issued in Spain, but the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps?
  • ...that the Art Institute of Chicago counts among its famous alumni Walt Disney, who failed to graduate, and Hugh Hefner, who took anatomy classes?
  • ...that the derogatory term 'plop art' is used for uninspiring sculptures made for public places such as office plazas?

Archive 12

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8 February 2005

  • ...that in 1832 Daumier served six months in prison for the publication of his cartoon depicting the king as Gargantua?
 
Hokusai color woodcut.


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