Portal:Art/ArtDidYouKnows

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<option>*... that Man Ray was neither a real man nor a ray?</option>
<option>*... that Beethoven went deaf due to all the Slayer gigs he attended?</option>
<option>*... that Picasso was rubbish at painting?</option>
<option>*... that spreading homosexuality was the reason for the decline of the classical era Greek art?</option>
<option>*... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was straight edge?</option>
<option>*... that so-called art beers are actually beer, not art?</option>
<option>*... that if you are male and like ballet, you are gay?</option>
<option>*... that nothing Hollywood produces is art, even if it has English actors in it?</option>
<option>*... that Hitler painted using only brushes made from hairs plucked from the beards of rabbis?</option>
<option>*... that Goya loved MS Paint?</option>
<option>*... that Byron failed his English school exam?</option>
<option>*... that tattoo you're so proud of isn't art - it's shit.</option>
<option>*... that H.R. Giger invented the cuckoo clock?</option>
<option>*... that Art Malik is not the successor to Art Deco and Art Nouveau?</option>
<option>*... that milk left in the sun for three hours will have more culture than Australia?</option>
<option>*... cooking is not art. It's women's work.</option>
<option>*... that art is one with the Universe, which is one with nothing at all?</option>
<option>*... that in the 17th century, art was actually made of wood?</option>
<option>*... that Vikings didn't have a word for "art"?</option>
<option>*... that Surrealism goat combination umbrella?</option>
<option>*... that my dog shits better art than Tracey Emin makes?</option>
<option>*... that your mum is Banksy?</option>
<option>*... that the Queen makes fun of Brian Sewell's accent?</option>
<option>*... that the Mona Lisa is only 2mm x 3mm?</option>
<option>*... that Mozart was afraid of rabbits?</option>
<option>*... that Marcel Duchamp actually was a pipefitter, just like Joe Cocker?</option>
<option>*... that I'm really bored of making up Did You Knows, so you should submit some of your own?</option>
<option>*... 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?</option>
<option>*... that most ballerinas are obese, but they use optical effects to make them look slim?</option>
<option>*... that Marge Simpson is the sexiest woman ever depicted in art?</option>
<option>*... that Old Masters can be purchased for as little as $20 million?</option>
<option>*... that if you become an artist, you are guaranteed to make $1 million in your first year alone?</option>
<option>*... that most cats are excellent architectural engineers?</option>
<option>*... that foxes can't paint?</option>
<option>*... that Toulouse-Lautrec, at 2.35 metres, was the tallest artist in history?</option>
<option>*... that Rolf Harris is commonly considered the best artist to have ever lived?</option>
<option>*... Works by Uncyclopedia artist Kakun are considered the most valuable in the world?</option>
<option>*... that by no stretch of the imagination can 99% of modern music be termed art?</option>
<option>*... that your great grandfather was Monet?</option>
<option>*... that Edvard Munch wasn't mad, just a whiney emo?</option>
<option>*... that Gilbert and George are quite strange?</option>
<option>*... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fred Flintstone's house?</option>
<option>*... 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?</option>
<option>*... that Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is the Pope's favourite work of art?</option>
<option>*... that Egon Schiele suffered from chronic gingerphobia?</option>
<option>*... that Richard Wagner loved Jewish culture and his favourite food was bagels?</option>
<option>*... that Aubrey Beardsley played Count Orlock in the 1922 film Nosferatu?</option>
<option>*... that German writer Gunter Grass is afraid of elves?</option>
<option>*... that Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed the human ankle?</option>
<option>*... that Le Corbu wasn't really a crow? He was a jackdaw.</option>
<option>*... that all the phallic images in Aubrey Beardsley's art were completely unintentional?</option>
<option>*... Stonehenge was designed by architect Sir Norman Foster?</option>
<option>*... that all Wal★Mart stores built since 1990 have been awarded the Pritzker Award for Excellence in Architecture?</option>
<option>*... 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?</option>
<option>*... 95% of all Dutch School paintings are owned by private working class collectors?</option>
<option>*... that New York's Guggenheim Museum doubles as a fully-functioning giant record player?</option>
<option>*... that Yoko Ono is a screechy old hag?</option>
<option>*... that most of Mark Rothko's paintings were done when the artist was seven years old?</option>
<option>*... that no matter how good you are, you will never be as good as Albrecht Dürer?</option>
<option>*... that London's Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) building was originally to be called Crystal Phallus?</option>
<option>*... that The Angel of the North is really quite tedious?</option>
<option>*... that William Shakespeare started out writing plots for porn films?</option>
<option>*... that Picasso was gay?</option>
<option>*... that Beethoven went deaf due to all the Slayer gigs he attended?</option>
<option>*... that Man Ray was neither a real man nor a ray?</option>
<option>*... that Marcel Duchamp actually was a pipefitter, just like Joe Cocker?</option>
<option>*... that Morgan Freeman is also God?</option>
<option>*... 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?</option>
<option>*... that Adolf Hitler was killed by an austrian artist?</option>
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