TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, November 6, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to "Randy Micke" who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:

What goes up but never comes down?

ANSWER: Your age.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?

QUOTE: "Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful."

HINT: (1925-1996), was an American artist and sculptor from Minnesota who worked in South Florida.

RANDOM TIDBITS
Georgia O'Keefe's flower paintings have fascinated many people, but the fuss over them annoyed the artist. She once told art critic Emily Genauer: "I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

When the Picasso sculpture was installed in Chicago's Daley Plaza in 1967, then Alderman John Hoellen called on the city to "deport" the artwork to France and replace it with a statue of Cubs slugger Ernie Banks.

Robert Rauschenberg produced a 1953 work titled "Erased de Kooning Drawing" by using rubber erasers to rub out a drawing that artist Willem de Kooning had given him for that purpose.

When Andy Warhol's first Campbell's soup can exhibit opened in New York City in 1962, a competing gallery put actual Campbell's cans in its windows with a sign reading, "Buy them cheaper here - sixty cents for three cans."

Max Ernst's embrace of surrealism seems more understandable when you understand that his father, an amatuer weekend painter, had a problem with plain old reality. The senior Ernst, painting a picture of his garden but struggling with how to depict a tree in the scene, solved the problem by grabbing an ax and chopping down the tree.

Chicago painter Ivan Albright was so meticulous that during a typical five-hour workday, he would paint about a half of a square inch.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful."

ANSWER: Duane Hanson.

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