stackyFACTSBecause cozy domestic scenes are entirely overrated. A group of Canadian artists decided to hike out into freezing, mosquito-infested woods purely to paint jagged rocks and twisted pines, permanently branding the national aesthetic as pleasantly desolate.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir entirely refused to let intense physical agony stop his cheerful impressionism. In his later years, crippling rheumatoid arthritis…
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Prior to the invention of the rubber eraser in 1770, what bizarre household grocery item did people use to erase pencil mistakes?
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Creating art wasn't a joyful process for Alberto Giacometti; it was a nightly existential crisis. The Swiss sculptor would furiously mold his iconic,…
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Forget soft chubby cheeks; early religious artists actively wanted infants to heavily resemble highly stressed old men. Believing that holy children were born…
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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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Painting the sky was a massive financial burden. Authentic ultramarine blue was crafted by heavily grinding up lapis lazuli stones imported from afar, making…
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