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Nobody wants to be remembered as scrawny. When carving towering stone slabs to decorate palace walls, artisans made sure every single figure possessed…
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Before his elongated portraits sold for millions, Modigliani was just a starving artist trying to survive Paris. He frequently dashed off brilliant,…
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Before he revolutionized the modern art world by violently throwing paint at canvases on his floor, he desperately struggled with standard painting…
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Realism is a waste of perfectly good leather. Wayang Kulit theater utilizes incredibly intricate, flat leather puppets cast against a backlit screen. The…
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Gluing wood together is an admission of defeat. Makonde carvers take a single, continuous chunk of dense ebony wood and hollow it out into a violently…
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Because nothing sparks creative joy like intense back pain and pigment dripping directly into your eyeballs. The legendary creator despised the massive chapel…
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