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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate

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Starry Night

Starry Night isn't a painting of a real scene. Van Gogh made it during the day, painting what he saw in his mind.

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Planet of the Apes

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PLANET OF THE APES THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS NOT A MODEL. Lady Liberty in the iconic ending is a matte painting, added to the Malibu cliffs (reachable only by helicopter) where the scene was shot. Matte painting was truly CGI before CGI. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Basquiat was in Blondie's music video for Rapture. Debbie Harry bought Basquiat's first painting for $200. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Vincent van Gogh

Protestors doused a Van Gogh painting with tomato soup. CRACKED.COM Van Gogh's Sunflowers was ok, as it was under protective glass the entire time. The protestors aim to show how destroying a painting gains more atten- tion than destroying the planet. — Source

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Roy Lichtenstein

GRACKED A SECURITY GUARD RUINED A PAINTING BY ADDING HIS OWN DRAWING TO IT. In 1993, a guard at the Whitney Museum of American Art drew on a Roy Lichtenstein painting that was on loan from the St. Louis Art Museum. The St. Louis museum then sued the Whitney for $2.5 million, claiming that the drawing had significantly lowered the value of the painting. — Quality Stock Arts/Shuttestock
The New York Times

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Heat

The iconic Robert De Niro shot in Heat was inspired by a 1967 painting. To director Michael Mann, the painting showed somebody who was involved in some life of aggression and action and yet contrast within the mental state because here was a moment of inner loneliness, so he basically made it a shot. CRACKED.COM — La Trobe University

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The Joker

Joher There's a painting in Arthur Fleck's living room that also appeared in Batman (1989). CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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Inadvertent Art Vandalism

WEIRD WORLD A young couple in Seoul accidentally ruined a painting worth almost half a million dollars. Paints and brushes were exhibited with the painting, and they thought those were for guests to use on the artwork. That was not the case, and they ended up vandalizing a $440,000 painting. — Source: ABC

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Edgar Degas

A stolen Degas painting was found in a suitcase on a bus. Worth almost a million dollars, no one on the bus claimed the painting, stolen nine years prior. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: BBC

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Prometheus

40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate — Source: Film School Rejects, Wikipedia

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Raphael & Dürer

Raphael & Dürer The two 16th-century artists never met in person but were pen pals. German artist Dürer sent the Italian artist (yes, of Ninja Turtle fame) a self-portrait, and Raphael sent several of his own. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Royal Academy

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Monkey Jesus

Disrespectful uses of priceless artifacts Monkey Jesus Around 1930, Spanish artist Elías García Martínez painted the unremarkable Jesus portrait Ecce Homo. In 2012, untrained amateur artist Cecilia Giménez just said to herself, Sure, I can restore it, how hard can it be? Such childlike obliviousness gave us the artistic monstrosity our godforsaken age deserves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Full House

The kid who played Alex Katsopolis in Full House is an award-winning sound effects artist. Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit is a foley artist - he creates TV and m

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The Hangover 2

Illegal filmmaking The Hangover 2 stole an artist S design. When Ed Helms' character gets Mike Tyson's exact face tattoo, they didn't ask artist S. Victor Whitmill for permission to use his original design. Не sued the production, and instead of digitally altering his face in post, they settled out of court. CRACKED — Source

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone has big plans for his next life: The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

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Madonna

The world first saw an empowered female artist through Madonna's videos She is cited by Encyclopedia Britannica as the first female artist to fully exploit the potential of the music video. Her '80s videos for Like a Virgin and Material Girl paved the way for every female artist to follow. CRACKED — Source

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Sarans K.K.

CRACKED Indian artist Sarans К.К. holds the Guinness World Record for the largest oil painting by a single artist, for his 1,800-square-foot portrait of three of the UAE's leaders. — Source

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Doom

The Doomguy's hands belong to artist Kevin Cloud. Cloud was hired to lend a hand to lead artist Adrian Carmack. He ended up lending his appropriately hairy arms to the Doomguy, to punch and blast demons back to Hell in a manly way. — Sources: Bethesda, DoomWiki.org

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Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey's makeup artist on How the Grinch Stole Christmas had to go to therapy. Carrey was so mean and petty that the artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, not only saw a therapist about it, he also had to take time off the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

O'Malley didn't draw the illustrated interludes. They were animated by Oscar Wright, Edgar's storyboard artist brother. — Edgar had Oscar do work for Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, too.

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Fan Art That Paid

A fan artist scored a staff job. I HAD SOME THING FOR THIS PURGER CRACKED.COM Artist Simon Chong tweeted a 4-minute Bob's Burgers / Archer mashup that he illustrated by hand. The cast and producers loved it SO much, they gave him a job as a retake editor and storyboard artist. — 15 'Bob's Burgers' Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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The Franco Framily

CRACKED COM Tom Franco, brother of James and Dave Franco, is a busy, talented artist. Не founded the Firehouse Art Collective in Berkeley, California, and personally focuses on found object art. He's done a little acting, but his art has been his real mark on the world, with events on a nearly daily basis on the FAC calendar. — Source

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Prank Glasses Art

As a prank, teenagers left glasses on a museum floor .. people thought it was art. The teenagers left the glasses in San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in 2016, and then filmed people taking photos of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Tina Fey

CRACKED TINA FEY'S ANCESTOR HAS ART IN THE MET. Her 5th great-grandfather John Hewson was a master quilt-maker whose work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. To this day, textile historians study his work. au ESTD H 19 ork stage IW Ш — Source

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Stephane Breitweiser, Art Thief

One of the greatest art thieves of all time wasn't in it for the money at all. Stéphane Breitweiser stole about $1.4 billion worth of art, but he didn't try to sell it - he was just really into the art and hung it around his home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Art World’s Biggest Jerk

CRACKED Vito Acconci devised a piece of performance art in 1972 that involved spending three weeks lying under a ramp masturbating for eight-hour stretches and muttering obscene things under his breath. — Source / The Paris Review

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Prank Pineapple Art

CRACKED ART IMITATES LIFE, OR IN THIS CASE, A PINEAPPLE PRANK. Two students left a pineapple on a table as part of a prank at a Robert Gordon University art exhibition. A few days later, it was still there, in a new glass case, now officially considered art. — Mashable

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Dogs

THIS ROCK ART IS BELIEVED TO BE THE EARLIEST DEPICTION OF DOGS. Believed to be more than 8,000 years old, this rock features dogs on their way to becoming domesticated. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell

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William Hogarth

1751 Gin Lane GD ROYAL William Hogarth created satirical engravings that served as propaganda against evil gin (as compared to noble English beer). CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Historic Art Pieces That Show Humans Have Always Been Freaky Weirdos

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Art of Lost and Cancelled Media

Art of Lost and Cancelled Media posts unused, unreleased stuff from big media franchises. + 000 Following Art of Lost and Cancelled Media @ArtofLostan — Link: Art of Lost and Cancelled Media's Twitter Account

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Julie d’Aubginy

An opera singer helped fake the death of her woman lover. CRACKED.COM The woman that swords- woman and opera singer Julie d'Aubigny seduced was placed in a convent by her parents. Julie joined her, placed a dead nun in her bed, and set the place on fire to escape. — Source

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Sylvester

Singer, Activist CRACKED.COM Sylvester The genderqueer singer is best known for his disco hit You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real). Before his radio single, he was in the Black drag queen group Disquotays and the hippie art trope Cockettes. — Source: The Guardian

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Gigi Hadid

Gigi Hadid was a professional singer JOSH GROBAN NOEL CRACKED.COM Before she hit it big as a model, she was a backup singer on a Josh Groban Christmas album -- the pinnacle of any young starlet's career.

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Bobby Farrell

CRACKED DECEMBER 30: BOBBY FARRELL'S AND RASPUTIN'S DEATHS On December 30, 2010, Bobby Farrell, the lead singer of Boney M, died in St. Petersburg, Russia - the same place where Grigori Rasputin, who Boney M wrote a song about, had been killed in 1916 on the same date. — Telegraph

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Adam Sandler

Rad (and lame) fictional bands The Wedding Singer ROBBIE HART They would take our comedy website license away if we called Adam Sandler anything but unfunny, so here: Adam Sandler as the singer in this movie is just super uncool. CRACKED — New Line Cinema
Consequence

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Adele

Pop singer Adele celebrated her 30th birthday party by throwing a Titanic- themed bash. The singer, who is obsessed with the movie, threw an opulent bash with costumes and life jackets as party favors. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Absurdly Over-The-Top Celebrity Parties

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Irene Adler

Irene Adler CRACKED.COM Hallmark's The Royal Scandal Irene The Opera Singer Irene is famously an opera singer, but some adaptations take that to be all she is - her starletry dialed up to eleven.

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Bob Saget

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM BOB SAGET ACTUALLY SANG HIS SONGS ON THE MASKED SINGER, THROUGH THE MASK. I'm actually singing through a 35-pound head with a mesh mouth and I'm holding a live mic. And it was impossible. It was really hard, is how he described it. — Source

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Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett, the Margaritaville singer, briefly appears in Jurassic World. As dinosaurs run wild through the resort and people flee, Buffett tries

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Helena Bonham Carter

Fight CIUb director David Fincher originally wanted Janeane Garofalo to play Marla Singer, but she turned him down because she was uncomfortable with

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