[Art fact 1] Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of Lamborghini cars, was fascinated with Spanish culture. Nearly every car is named after a Spanish word, the majority of them deriving from the name of famous bulls that killed a matador in a bullfight. This is also why their logo is a charging bull.
[Art fact 2] Vincent Van Gogh didn't start to paint until the age of 28 and only started drawing at the age of 26. In the 9 years, until his death at 37, he painted over 800 paintings.
[Art fact 3] The owner of the Café de la Rotonde in Paris would allow starving artists to pay for their drinks with a painting or drawing. In the 1900s the walls of the cafe would have been casually adorned with works that are now considered priceless.
[Art fact 4] Muzeon Park of Arts (formerly the Park of the Fallen Heroes or Fallen Monument Park) is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the modern art division of Tretyakov Gallery and Central House of Artists. It is located between the Park Kultury and the Oktyabrskaya underground stations. It is the largest open-air sculpture museum in Russia, with more than 700 artworks currently on display and another 200 in storage. It is best known for its toppled statues.
[Art fact 5] McDonald’s considered changing its logo in 1960, but American psychologist Louis Cheskin argued for the company to keep the logo because, in Freudian terms, the logo symbolized a “mother’s nourishing breasts.”
[Art fact 6] Elvis Presley was obsessed with Karate and even used his skills to fight off 4 attackers who came at him during a show.
[Art fact 7] The largest art heist in history was completed in 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, totaling 13 paintings worth $500M. To this day, all of the empty frames are still hanging, acting as placeholders until the pieces are returned.
[Art fact 8] The Diet Pepsi logo is "slimmer" than the regular Pepsi logo.
[Art fact 9] In 1911, a 35-year-old French miner named Augustin Lesage began hearing voices in the dark that convinced him to become a painter. With no prior training, he became very successful and claimed the “spirit voices” guided every one of his 800 paintings.
[Art fact 10] Tivadar Kosztka, an early twentieth-century Hungarian painter, made an oddly asymmetrical artwork called The Old Fisherman. It was recently discovered that the painting contains two hidden images by mirroring just the left or the right side, which creates a symmetrical image of God or the Devil.
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