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Five Interesting things…

Five Interesting things…. About Art History. Pablo Picasso's full name.

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Five Interesting things…

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  1. Five Interesting things… About Art History

  2. Pablo Picasso's full name • Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan NepomucenoMaría de los RemediosCipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio ClitoRuíz y Picasso. You can memorize that or simply say "did you know that Pablo Picasso had 23 words in his name?" • (Bonus fact: his first word was "lapiz," the Spanish word for "pencil.")

  3. Mona Lisa stolen • In 1911, when the Mona Lisa disappeared off a wall in the Louvre, Picasso was a key suspect. He didn't have the Mona Lisa, but he did have two stolen Louvre sculptures in his possession.

  4. Salvador Dali • Salvador Dali arrived to give a lecture at London exhibition wearing a diving suit and diving helmet. Nobody could hear him. Eventually he began to asphyxiate in the suit, which had an airtight seal. The audience, thinking it was just a performance, applauded wildly until somebody finally popped open the helmet.

  5. Vincent Van Gogh • Vincent Van Gogh wrote over 800 letters in his lifetime.

  6. Bird in Space • When the sculpture, Bird in Space, was brought to the United States, the customs inspector refused to grant the duty exemption to the sculpture, insisting that it was not art (because, clearly, it looks nothing like a bird) and would therefore have to be taxed as a hunk of raw material.

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