Trivia Today - Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

One of my closest friends is getting married next month, and this past weekend was her bachelorette party. We attended a painting party at an art studio in Chicago where you can bring your own drinks and snacks and spend a few hours painting with your friends. We were provided with art supplies, a blank canvas, and instruction from art teachers who walked around the room.

I have never taken a painting class in my life, and this proved quite obvious as we began our masterpieces. I decided to be ambitious and attempt to copy an abstract painting of a tree. I knew about halfway through that I had aimed too high, especially when my friend came over and remarked, "That looks like an octopus!"

I took a picture of it and sent it to my boyfriend asking him what he thought it was. His response: "Maybe a lizard spewing something out of its mouth?"

Clearly, I won't be starting a career in painting anytime soon...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

HINT: (1882-1967), prominent American realist painter and printmaker.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian and animal rights activist, he would buy caged birds and set them free.

Salvador Dali believed he was his dead brother's reincarnation. There is also a portrait or a silhouette of Dali in every one of his paintings.

Auguste Rodin's "The Age of Bronze" was so realistic people though he sacrificed a real person inside the cast.

Georges Braque was the first living person to have art displayed in Louvre.

Claude Monet's father disapproved of his painting; he wanted him to be a grocer.

Henri Matisse's Le Bateau was put the right way up after hanging upside-down for 46 days without anyone noticing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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I grown from darkness but shine with a pale light.
Very round I am, and always a lady's delight.
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

ANSWER: Edward Hopper.

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