stackyFACTSProving that artistic talent does not equal basic decency, the celebrated sculptor discovered his mistress was cheating on him with his own brother. In a fit of toxic vengeance, he hired a servant to slash her face with a razor, completely destroying her reputation.
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A plain metal vase is fundamentally tragic without highly contrasting accents. Bidriware artists take blackened alloys of zinc and copper and meticulously…
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The legendary Japanese artist behind 'The Great Wave' was aggressively indecisive about his own identity. Over his long career, Katsushika Hokusai changed his…
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Those dramatic, violently yellow and orange sunsets in early nineteenth-century European art weren't just stylistic choices. Painters were actually…
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The glittering gold leaf master had a fatal weakness for felines. He allowed an absolute horde of stray cats to freely roam his studio, completely unfazed…
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Vincent van Gogh's desperate search for internal peace took incredibly strange, highly toxic turns. Believing that the bright yellow paint he used on canvases…
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Getting a tiny design on your ankle is a joke compared to irezumi. Artists use bundles of needles attached to wooden handles to painstakingly hand-poke…
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