Random facts in celebration of "Inspire Your Heart With Art Day" on January 31st.
In honor of Inspire Your Heart With Art Day celebrated on January 31st every year, I thought I'd research and share some random facts of famous artists.
About Inspire Your Heart With Art Day
I couldn't find information about the origin of this day anywhere on the World Wide Web. However, many websites from Days of the Year to National Day Calendar promote Inspire Your Heart With Art Day.
The goal of the day is to take time to appreciate the arts, be it paintings, sculptures, monuments, music, plays, cinema, and more.
Fun Facts About Famous Artists and Artworks
Below are some random fun facts about some of your favorite artists:
The street artist Banksy hung his own artwork on a wall within the Tate Modern Museum in 2003.
The Olympic Games once hosted and gave out medals for Olympic art competitions.
George Vlosich is well-known for creating unique art, like his NBA Finals Lebron, using an Etch A Sketch.
X-rays of the famous Mona Lisa painting shows that Leonardo Da Vinci painted three different versions under the final piece.
Van Gogh's Starry Night was painted in a psych ward.
People thought Auguste Rodin sacrificed an actual human being to create The Age of Bronze statue.
There are four versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
Louvre setup a mailbox just for the Mona Lisa's fan letters.
Salvador Dali thought he was his dead older brother's reincarnation.
On record, Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted regularly throughout his last twenty years of life despite suffering severe rheumatoid arthritis.
How to Celebrate
There are many ways to inspire your heart with art. While this blog post shared facts about famous painters, I'm not just talking about looking at paintings to celebrate this day. The arts encompass a wide range of creative possibilities.
Below are some ways you can celebrate Inspire Your Heart With Art Day:
Be creative! Paint, draw, craft, sing, write, photograph an interesting subject, play an instrument, or produce something that interests you.
Tour a physical or virtual museum of art. For example, you could virtually tour the British Museum.
Read a good book.
Listen to music, audio books, or podcasts.
Watch a film, dance production, or theatrical performance.
Catch-up with some of your favorite content creators via social media platforms like YouTube.
Visit the Jackson Pollock webpage for some creative digital fun.
Play a video game that promotes creativity. For example, you could build an architectural masterpiece in The Sims 4 or evaluate fake versus real works of art in Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Cross-check the fun facts I shared in this blog post. You'll find there's more interesting stories I didn't share!
What's Next?
I started celebrating Inspire Your Heart With Art Day early with various arts and crafts projects I'm working on. I'll share some of those, including a few birthday cards designs, with you soon.
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Thanks, and have a great day!
Simply Jelly Jam
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