Portal:Art/Did you know

Full DYK list

• ... that Man Ray was neither a real man nor a ray?
• ... that Beethoven went deaf due to all the Slayer gigs he attended?
• ... that Picasso was rubbish at painting?
• ... that spreading homosexuality was the reason for the decline of the classical era Greek art?
• ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was straight edge?
• ... that so-called art beers are actually beer, not art?
• ... that if you are male and like ballet, you are gay?
• ... that nothing Hollywood produces is art, even if it has English actors in it?
• ... that Hitler painted using only brushes made from hairs plucked from the beards of rabbis?
• ... that Goya loved MS Paint?
• ... that Byron failed his English school exam?
• ... that tattoo you're so proud of isn't art - it's shit.
• ... that H.R. Giger invented the cuckoo clock?
• ... that Art Malik is not the successor to Art Deco and Art Nouveau?
• ... that milk left in the sun for three hours will have more culture than Australia?
• ... cooking is not art. It's women's work.
• ... that art is one with the Universe, which is one with nothing at all?
• ... that in the 17th century, art was actually made of wood?
• ... that Vikings didn't have a word for "art"?
• ... that Surrealism goat combination umbrella?
• ... that my dog shits better art than Tracey Emin makes?
• ... that your mum is Banksy?
• ... that the Queen makes fun of Brian Sewell's accent?
• ... that the Mona Lisa is only 2mm x 3mm?
• ... that Mozart was afraid of rabbits?
• ... that Marcel Duchamp actually was a pipefitter, just like Joe Cocker?
• ... that I'm really bored of making up Did You Knows, so you should submit some of your own?
• ... that Joan Miro only became an artist so he could go to a posh school where people wouldn't make fun of his girly name?
• ... that most ballerinas are obese, but they use optical effects to make them look slim?
• ... that Marge Simpson is the sexiest woman ever depicted in art?
• ... that Old Masters can be purchased for as little as $20 million?
• ... that if you become an artist, you are guaranteed to make $1 million in your first year alone?
• ... that most cats are excellent architectural engineers?
• ... that foxes can't paint?
• ... that Toulouse-Lautrec, at 2.35 metres, was the tallest artist in history?
• ... that Rolf Harris is commonly considered the best artist to have ever lived?
• ... Works by Uncyclopedia artist Kakun are considered the most valuable in the world?
• ... that by no stretch of the imagination can 99% of modern music be termed art?
• ... that your great grandfather was Monet?
• ... that Edvard Munch wasn't mad, just a whiney emo?
• ... that Gilbert and George are quite strange?
• ... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fred Flintstone's house?
• ... that developing an interest in art as a teenager is a good way to see lots of pictures of nudey ladies without getting in trouble?
• ... that Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is the Pope's favourite work of art?
• ... that Egon Schiele suffered from chronic gingerphobia?
• ... that Richard Wagner loved Jewish culture and his favourite food was bagels?
• ... that Aubrey Beardsley played Count Orlock in the 1922 film Nosferatu?
• ... that German writer Gunter Grass is afraid of elves?
• ... that Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed the human ankle?
• ... that Le Corbu wasn't really a crow? He was a jackdaw.
• ... that all the phallic images in Aubrey Beardsley's art were completely unintentional?
• ... Stonehenge was designed by architect Sir Norman Foster?
• ... that all Wal★Mart stores built since 1990 have been awarded the Pritzker Award for Excellence in Architecture?
• ... that the Empire State Building is fitted with six fully-functioning rocket engines, allowing the US President to use it as an escape vehicle in the event of alien attack?
• ... 95% of all Dutch School paintings are owned by private working class collectors?
• ... that New York's Guggenheim Museum doubles as a fully-functioning giant record player?
• ... that Yoko Ono is a screechy old hag?
• ... that most of Mark Rothko's paintings were done when the artist was seven years old?
• ... that no matter how good you are, you will never be as good as Albrecht Dürer?
• ... that London's Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) building was originally to be called Crystal Phallus?
• ... that The Angel of the North is really quite tedious?
• ... that William Shakespeare started out writing plots for porn films?
• ... that Picasso was gay?
• ... that Beethoven went deaf due to all the Slayer gigs he attended?
• ... that Man Ray was neither a real man nor a ray?
• ... that Marcel Duchamp actually was a pipefitter, just like Joe Cocker?
• ... that Morgan Freeman is also God?
• ... that Cosimo de Medici was the actual painter of the Sistine Chapel, but that he gave credit to Michelangelo out of fear that he might attack him through a portal hidden in his toilet?
• ... that Adolf Hitler was killed by an austrian artist?