10 Surprising Facts About Art

Art lovers! Are you ready for a journey where you can learn things you didn’t know about art and famous artists? Here we go!

1. The oldest known artworks are cave paintings and sculptures dating back 40,000 years.

2. Leonardo da Vinci had a journal that filled over 13,000 pages. his journal contained his observations, ideas and drawings.

3. Van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” painting was made during the period when the artist was undergoing treatment in a mental hospital.

4. The famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso produced around 50,000 works. Which means he produced around one work every day, crazy!

5. Michelangelo spent about four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This magnificent work covers an area of more than 12 thousand square meters.

6. Copies of the “Mona Lisa” have been made and exhibited hundreds of times around the world. In fact, these copies further increased the fame of Mona Lisa.

7. The melting clocks in Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” painting illustrate the elasticity of time.

8. The famous impressionist painter Claude Monet, who had an obsession with water lilies, painted more than 250 paintings consisting of water lilies.

9. Andy Warhol made a series of paintings called “Campbell’s Soup Cans” in 1962, making ordinary objects part of art.

10. Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2,000 works during his lifetime but only one of them was sold while he was alive. These works included paintings, drawings and sketches.