Great painters forever leave their mark on the history of painting. They are all so different, educated and not very, poor and rich, born in various parts of the world … But they all have one thing in common – an amazing talent that they managed to develop in themselves.
Van Gogh did not cut off his ear. But he still amputated his earlobe. Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian. One of the most eccentric artists can be called Salvador Dali. He loved to shock people. And once he showed up for the exhibition in a diving suit. The famous artist Pablo Picasso in his youth was very poor. Once he even had to burn the stove with his own paintings, because he did not have money for firewood. The full name of Picasso consists of 23 words. Henri Matisse’s painting “The Boat” once hung upside down at the exhibition for a month and a half, until someone noticed a mistake. During his life, Vincent Van Gogh sold, contrary to popular myth, not one picture, but much more. But he received very little money for his canvases. Documented sale of at least 14 paintings. Leonardo da Vinci was equally good in both right and left hands. Among the great artists were many lefties. Much more than among the representatives of most other professions. Renoir in his youth was a tailor, and also engaged in the repair and manufacture of shoes. Van Gogh more than once ended up in psychiatric hospitals. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Salvador Dali did not like children. He even had fun in a very strange way – he came to the playgrounds, pulled out a bunch of sweets from his pocket, unwrapped them, licked them and threw them on the ground to tease the kids. The body of the artist Salvador Dali, according to his last will, is walled up in the floor in the museum named after him, in the city of Figueres. The artist Henri Matisse had one strange phobia – he was afraid to go blind. He even learned to play the violin in order to be able to earn a living if he suddenly lost his sight. The most expensive painting ever sold at auction is Edward Munch’s Scream. The famous artist of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, was also a scientist. So, he was the first to scientifically explain why the sky is blue. The design of the Chupa Chups candy wrapper was designed by Salvador Dali. And he did not take money for work, setting in return a condition that he would be brought a box of candies every day until the end of his life. Leonardo da Vinci painted the most expensive and famous painting in the world. We are talking about the Mona Lisa, for which a separate room is even allocated in the Paris Louvre. Artist Paul Gauguin was a very talented woodcarver. But it was his, as they would say, a hobby. Renoir discovered that he could paint with his left hand no worse than his right, after he broke his right hand. Renoir’s creative career lasted about 60 years, and during this time he created about 6,000 paintings.
Artist Edgar Degas was a fan of dancing and ballet. Dancers and dancers are depicted in more than 1,500 of his paintings. The paintings of Aivazovsky, the famous marine painter, are so realistic that he was once even accused of fraud – evil tongues claimed that he puts lamps behind the paintings that give his paintings such brightness. The famous Rubens was twice a knight. The title of chivalry was immediately granted to him by two kings, English and Spanish. Claude Monet, who worked mainly in the genre of impressionism, began with caricatures. Even as a child, he portrayed his own teachers in a comical form. Georges Braque was the first artist whose work was exhibited in the Louvre during the life of the author. Paul Gauguin at one time worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. The Dutch painter Pete Mondrian, one of the fathers of abstract art, was a real workaholic. Sometimes he continued to work until his hands were covered with blisters from his hand. The artist of the Renaissance of Michelangelo signed only one of his paintings. Michelangelo also became the first famous painter whose biography was written and published during his lifetime. Renoir was in love with drawing with all his heart. Already very old, suffering from arthritis, he could not hold the brush in his hands, but still he continued to write, tying the brush to his sleeve. Claude Monet decided to devote his life to art after winning a large sum of money in the lottery. Prior to that, he worked as a messenger.
The first word uttered by young Picasso was not “mom” or “dad”, but “pencil”. Another Renaissance artist, Raphael, has created many religious paintings. Moreover, he himself was an atheist. The famous “Mona Lisa” was stolen in 1912. She was found three years later, and during this time, various fraudsters sold 6 of her copies, issued as a stolen original. Michelangelo was not only an artist, but also a poet. About three hundred poems he created have reached us. Salvador Dali claimed to be the reincarnation of his deceased brother. Artist Jackson Pollock used cigarettes instead of brushes. Anish Kapoor’s painting, which belonged to one collector, was once thrown out by the employees of the company that provided the collection. They took her for trash. Less than 30 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci have survived to this day. On every canvas of Salvador Dali, if you look closely, you can find his encrypted self-portrait or silhouette. The first exhibition of Paul Cezanne took place when he turned 56 years old. Once Salvador Dali walked around New York with a two-meter long loaf of bread. Just. He loved to shock the audience. Paul Gauguin, a French artist, spent most of his childhood in the exotic country of Peru. Van Gogh’s paintings are dominated by yellow tones.
