BORED FACT: The Kiss by Rodin was originally titled “Francesca da Rimini” after the character in Dante’s Inferno who falls in love with her husband’s brother, Paolo. The sculpture shows them about to kiss, posed so that their lips never touch, hinting at their impending doom.🖤
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BORED FACT: The town depicted in Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France. Van Gogh painted the work while he was a patient at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a psychiatric hospital there. The hospital now has a wing named after him.🖤
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BORED FACT: When The Thinker by Auguste Rodin was revealed it caused a bit of a scandal. The proportions were so realistically sculpted that many thought he molded it directly on a man’s body. This caused quite a bit of trouble for his reputation at the time.🖤
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BORED FACT: The Eye is a small and mysterious islet located in the delta of the Parana river, in Argentina. Nearly perfectly circular in shape, the island frequently rotates on itself. It floats between the clear and frozen waters of a pool that is completely unique to the area.
BORED FACT: Alexandre Dumas, known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, felt very strongly that all his works must be presented on colored paper. He wanted all his fiction presented on blue paper, his articles on pink paper, and his poetry on yellow paper. 🖤
BORED FACT: American Gothic is a popular American painting created in 1930 by Grant Wood and depicts a farmer standing beside his daughter, though it is often mistaken to be his wife. The name of the painting comes from the background house's architectural style.🖤
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BORED FACT: In his later years, Claude Monet produced a series of paintings that were notably blue. This was due to him becoming partially color blind following surgery to correct cataracts. To this day, Monet’s blue paintings are still considered some of his finest work. 🖤
BORED FACT: Yves Klein was unsatisfied with the options available when it came to the color blue, so he created and patented his own–International Klein Blue. He was also known for using entire human beings as paintbrushes and trying to convince the world he could fly.🖤
BORED FACT: Legend says that Van Gogh cut his ear to give as a present to his impossible love. However, one theory suggest that Van Gogh and Gauguin, his friend, were fencing when he accidentally cut Van Gogh’s earlobe. Later, Van Gogh finished the job and cut his whole ear off.