Arts Trivia
The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.
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Arts Trivia
The world’s largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art.
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The painting, “American Gothic” depicts the sister and the dentist of artist Grant Wood as rural farm folk.
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The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the “The Pieta,” completed in 1500.
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse’s ‘Le Bateau’ upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.
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The Mona Lisa, by daVinci, is 2′6″ by 1′9″.
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At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
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Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.
English Alphabets And Numbers !
Do you know?
First 4 alphabets ( ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’) which are quite commonly used; do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 ! (Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)
Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 ! (Letter ‘a’ [...]
What Planet Has The Most Tilted Axis Of Rotation ?
In our solar system, the planet whose axis is most tilted to its orbit is Uranus, a distant, blue-green gas giant. Its extreme tilt of 97.86 degrees means that each pole of the planet faces the Sun directly for about one quarter of its 84-year orbit.
No one knows how Uranus got tipped so far out [...]
