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	Interesting Art Facts (Click on an image to see it full screen) Red and Green, in terms of pigment color, share the same value. This means that people who are color blind would find no difference in these two colors. These are the 2 colors that are tested for this visual impairment. If you could use all of the lead in a regular No. 2 pencil, you could draw a line 35 miles long.
	Vincent Van Gogh didn't actually 'cut off his ear'. He merely lopped off the lower left ear ... and although an original Van Gogh painting today can easily sell for millions of dollars, he sold ONE painting in his lifetime - to his brother Theo for 400 francs - before Vincent shot himself and took 2 days to die. The highest price paid ever paid for a painting? A Japanese firm just recently bought a painting from Picasso's Rose Period for $104 MILLION! In Second Place is The Portrait of Dr. Gachet - on the left (Vincent Van Gogh, 1890) for $82.5 MILLION! The highest price ever paid for a female artist's work was $4.1 Million for a Mary Cassatt. The Nike logo was actually designed by a co-op student for Nike, who created an abstract version of the wing of the Nike of Samothrace - the Greek goddess of Victory.
	The farming couple shown in American Gothic were painted after models. Who were the models? Artist Grant Wood's sister and Dr. McKeevey - his dentist.
	The house shown in the background of American Gothic is a real occupied house in Eldon, Iowa.
	When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
	The famous painting of Whistler's Mother was once bought from a pawn shop. (It's official title is Arrangement in Grey and Black).
	On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later.
	Henri Toulouse-Latrec, known worldwide for his Moulin Rouge posters, was a dwarf. Both of his legs had been broken by the age of 14 and never fully healed. A Flemish artist is responsible for the world's smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted onto a grain of corn. The ancient Etruscans painted women white and men red in the wall paintings they used to decorate tombs. Artist Constantino Brumidi fell from the dome of the U.S. Capitol while painting a mural around the rim. He died four months later. On a trip to the South Sea islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America, where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal. Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh were also roommates at one point in time.