Artists - Creative people and inclined to different kinds of hoaxes. Perhaps this is why with them and there are various kinds of funny strange stories, each of which could serve as a plot for an exciting book or film ...
Appelles (370 - 306 BC.) He was a great Greek artist, another Alexander Macedonsky. According to the legend, the Appelles competed with another artist on the realistic image. When the canvas with a competitor's paintings were removed, the birds were surprisingly vividly drawn by bird bunch. Then they began to straighten the matter from the Picture of Apelles, but it was not possible - the bedspread was depicted in the picture.
Being a student, artist Vladislav Koval I sent a letter from Moscow to my own. At the same time, he did not glue the brands on the envelopes, but he painted, and so skillfully, that everything was reached by one letter to the addressee. When the Ministry of Printing announced a contest for sketches of new brands, Koval brought the organizers a pack of envelopes and won.
Popular bike from what van Gogh Ammputing the ear, does not correspond to reality. First, it was cut off only a piece of the lobe. A, secondly, the story itself is dark. It is known that the tragedy occurred in Arles in the midst of an absinthe quarrel when Van Gogh attacked with a razor on Gauguen. Many biographers believe that there is a goguem of a friend and compartment in the scuffle. Another version states that Hang Gogh expressed his repentance after a fight. One way or another, immediately after the artist, they were offended in a psycho-chief, in the ward for violent. So the Wang Gogh syndrome, when the patient operates itself, is not exactly called.
Lovely business made one lady on a picture with autograph Ilya Repin . In just 10 rubles, she got somewhere somehow a laundering picture with a proud signature "I. Repin. " This smearing of the lady showed Ilya Efimovich himself. The artist laughed and added at the bottom "it's not repin", after which the lady sold the painting with the autograph itself of the Repin itself for 100 rubles.
When in 1881 Pablo Picasso It was born in the world appeared in the Spanish city of Malaga, he was solicious. Savior Baby Uncle, who, seeing the dead child on the table, is unknown why he launched him in the face smoke. Pablo frowned. It saved him.
Located Lollipop "Chupa Chups" Drew Salvador Dali . In 1961, Enrik Bernata, the owner of Chupa Chups, turned to a surrealist with a request to come up with a picture for a candy wrapper. Dalited the request performed. This is an image, although a slightly changed, bangs on the balls of the company's lollipops to this day.
FROM Salvador Dali Another excellent story is connected. The artist practiced a dream with the key in his hand, sitting on a chair. When the master fell asleep, gradually the fingers squeezed, and the key with the roar fell into the pelvis standing on the floor. The Spaniard sickly emerged during the dorms and waking up. So many world-famous images in the worlds were given.
In the time of the USSR, each artist before exploring the picture to the exhibition or bargaining was to be able to spend arts through the commission of officials, often in the art of a low-speed. I had to invent the most curious and unforeseen moves. So, one artist in the corner of the Grand Landscape painted at all relevant yellow dog. It was a dog and became the theme of a roast discussion of the Commission, which no longer paid attention to anything else. Verdict was carried out: take a picture, to remove the dog. What the artist was required.
Did English artist knew Edwin Landsir What, having drawn a picture "Alpine Mastiffs save a bogging traveler", gives a legend known to the whole world that you need to disappear with hot drinks? Meanwhile, this is how it happened. Edwin depicted brandy barrels on the neck in PSA. Allegedly, brandy was needed to bring into a sense of people found by dogs under the snowflower in the Alps. In fact, the monks from the Monastery of St. Bernard, who came up with the use of Senbernarov to search for avalanche, argue that this is clean water fiction, because alcohol only contributes to the outflow of heat and does not help freezing.
The famous inventor Samuel Morse up to 34 years old was an artist and technician. In 1825, the courier delivered him a letter from his father, where it was said that his wife dies. Morse immediately left Washington in New Haven, where the family lived, but the spouse was already buried to his arrival. This case made Morse leave painting and plunge into the study of the methods of rapid delivery of messages over long distances (instead of thinking about what to challenge his wife where he fell). One way or another, by 1838 this led to the development of Albuchi of Morse and Electric Telegraph.