Visual Arts facts

While investigating facts about Visual Arts, I found out little known, but curios details like:

Bladerunner is so visually stunning partly because of the 1980 Hollywood Actors Strike, which gave the film's Art Department and Designers an extra 3 months to improve and refine significantly their futuristic sets and props.

Actress Lucy Liu has also led a successful career as a visual artist, having produced art through painting, photography, and mixed media. She's published this art under the pseudonym, Yu Ling (her Chinese name) since 1993.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Visual Arts I managed to collect.

1. Furio, from the Sopranos, is a real-life visual artist who found a mistake and purchased a misattributed painting for roughly $60,000 from an art gallery. Its actual value was 10 MM.

2. One of the oldest civilisations in the world, the 5500-year-old Norte Chico civilisation of South America, is remarkable in that it never developed pottery and, despite building huge pyramid monuments, they never made visual art

3. Singerie is the name given to a visual arts genre depicting monkeys imitating human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire. The term is derived from the French word for "Monkey Trick".

4. A young Painter has been compared to Jackson Pollock and labeled "Mozart of the visual arts", has sold out galleries in London, New York, Italy and Hong Kong, and has been featured on Forbes magazine and interviewed by Good Morning America, CBS, NBC, BBC and TheWashington Post. She's 8.

5. Eşref Armağan is able to paint art that has visual perspective despite being born without sight, brain scans show that his visual cortex signals are similar to those of people who can see.

6. The Art of the Smear: an optical illusion used by animators, described as the "visualization of a blur". Typically animators either stretch a shape or repeat it in sequence to mimic movement. Animators seem to love doing these, and if you look at a couple you'll get why.

7. A 1987 photograph titled "Piss Christ" depicting a crucifix submerged in a tank of the photographer's own urine was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition

8. A Visit to The Mysterious Palace - Niyavaran Palace Complex ( you can learn about History,architecture and art by this video with visual elements)

9. The 19th Century Art Nouveau movement is what inspired much of the visuals and aesthetics of the 1960s phsychedelic rock.

10. Previsualization is a process for experimenting with scene visuals in a movie before filming, and can include photography, art, and 3D animation. Some of these modern animations are even comparable to the graphics of 3D video games.