And no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Revelation 18:22<\/i><\/p>\n
289<\/b> Art Works As Tax Payment<\/b><\/p>\n
In Mexico, painters and sculptors can pay taxes with their own work. Each April when taxes are paid, an artist hands in the work which he believes covers his debt to government. A commission of experts decides if it is acceptable. The work becomes the nation\u2019s property.<\/p>\n
290<\/b> Napoleon Rejects Money For Art<\/b><\/p>\n
The victorious Napoleon demanded twenty of the choicest pictures of the Duke of Parma to be sent to the Museum of Paris. To save one of these works of art\u2014the celebrated picture of St. Jerome\u2014the Duke offered the equivalent of two hundred thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Napoleon declined the sum, stating to the army, \u201cThe sum which he offers will soon be spent, but the possession of such a masterpiece at Paris will adorn that capital for ages, and give birth to similar exertions of genius.<\/p>\n
\u2014Little\u2019s Historical Lights<\/i><\/p>\n
291<\/b> World\u2019s Largest Painting<\/b><\/p>\n
The largest painting ever done by man was one by John Banyard in 1846. The canvas extended 3 miles long and depicted 1,200 miles of actual sceneries from the mouth of Mississippi to New Orleans.<\/p>\n
Being 12 feet wide and over 16,000 feet long, the whole thing was exhibited by being passed between two upright revolving pillars on the stages of large auditoriums. Although it required two hours to be shown, it was a long-term success during its years of exhibition in both America and Europe. It was finally purchased by an Englishman who took it to India, where it vanished from sight.<\/p>\n
292<\/b> Art Before And After<\/b><\/p>\n
In the early days of oil painting, artists like the Van Eyck brothers painted with microscopes, and it is possible to count the tiny pearls on the robe of one of their queens, the hairs of an angel\u2019s head, or the stubble of a man\u2019s beard. This was one form of \u201ctruth\u201d in art.<\/p>\n
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Impressionists were taking blobs of paint and smearing them upon canvas with a broad brush. Close at hand, the effect was meaningless. Standing across the room, with the proper light upon the picture and with eyes half closed, one could get a distinct impression of what the artist was trying to convey. These latter masters insisted that theirs was another form of \u201ctruth\u201d in art.<\/p>\n
\u2014Donald Grey Barnhouse<\/i><\/p>\n
293<\/b> Mao A Saint? <\/b><\/p>\n
Someone anonymously donated a portrait to the Vatican. It was accepted and interpreted to symbolize \u201ca devoted missionary priest\u201d and it was hung near a portrait of Pope Paul VI. It hung there for more than a month\u2014until someone recognized it as a portrait of Chairman Mao at the age of twenty-seven.<\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
294<\/b> Meant As A Joke<\/b><\/p>\n
In London, Jean Wiggins mistakenly sent her two-year-old daughter\u2019s painting to the neighborhood art exhibition of professional adult painters, instead of to a children\u2019s competition as originally intended. Surprise: the painting entitled \u201cSunset,\u201d described by enthusiastic critics as \u201ca chaotic splash of colour\u201d won the certificate of merit.<\/p>\n
Again\u2014British painter James Nobles submitted two paintings to the Royal Academy\u2014one representing his usual meticulous style and called \u201cHerring for Tea\u201d and the other entitled \u201cGalaxy.\u201d In painting \u201cGalaxy,\u201d he had spent about 30 minutes splashing yellow and white paint on a blue canvas. The academy rejected the first and accepted \u201cGalaxy.\u201d \u201cIt was meant as a joke,\u201d Noble later confessed, to test the Academy\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n
295<\/b> Bits Of Abstract<\/b><\/p>\n
In the Munich\u2019s Can de Loo Gallery Italian painter Pinot Gallizio did a booming business by snipping his 10- and 20- yard canvasses of abstract art into appropriate lengths and selling them to any who wanted to buy. \u201cNormal quality\u201d sold for $25 per yard; \u201cmore profound quality\u201d for $60 per yard. Leftovers went at a discount.<\/p>\n
\u2014Prairie Overcomer<\/i><\/p>\n
296<\/b> Chimpanzees As Artists<\/b><\/p>\n
Hardly had the chimpanzees in the Portland, Ore., zoo been introduced to poster paints than the talented little critters turned art into a cottage industry. Their work has been so well received that the zoo has been selling their paintings.<\/p>\n
Now, a Seattle organization, the Foundation for the Advancement of Human Awareness, has presented the chimps an award \u201cfor advancing a better understanding of animals among the human population.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last recipient of an award from the foundation was Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\n
297<\/b> Art In The Making<\/b><\/p>\n
William Green, 23, a student at the Royal College of Art, revealed his painting technique. First, he puts a large, fresh white canvas on the floors; then does the following in the order named:<\/p>\n
1. Pour paint and a tint of printer\u2019s ink on it.<\/p>\n
2. Jump up and down on the paint, dance on it, and skip over the surface.<\/p>\n
3. Ride over the canvas on a bicycle, skidding to scatter the paint; later use the bicycle to spread it around further.<\/p>\n
4. Soak the canvas in paraffin.<\/p>\n
5. Shovel sand on the painting to give \u201cadded texture.\u201d<\/p>\n
His paintings sell for up to 100 pounds. ($280).<\/p>\n
\u2014United Press<\/i><\/p>\n
298<\/b> Epigram On Art World<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Art is the universal diplomat. We seek French painting, and love the French; we read Russian novels, and love the Russians; we hear German music, and love the Germans. If races and nations communicated with each other solely through the medium of their art, would there be any national prejudice?<\/p>\n
\u2014Forbes Watson<\/p>\n
\u2022 A zealous art student went to a gallery and spent a bewildered hour looking over abstract and cubist works. She was finally attracted to a painting consisting of a black dot on a field of white and framed in brass. \u201cHow much for this?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the light switch,\u201d she was told.<\/p>\n
\u2014Chicago Tribune<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 A man who purchased a small piece of abstract sculpture from an art gallery later received a letter from the gallery. It began: \u201cDear Sir or Madman.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Evening Standard, London<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 In 1961, a Matisse hung upside down for 47 days before a visitor to the New York Museum of Modern Art caught the mistake. A record wrong-side-up display.<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Fashions ; Musical World ; Skillfulness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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