Interesting Facts About Art and Creativity

Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the lips of the Mona Lisa.

Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, yet he completed over 900 works.

The oldest recorded 'art' is a shell with a zigzag engraving dating back 540,000 years.

Claude Monet destroyed up to 500 of his own paintings in fits of frustration.

The first documented use of the term 'artificial intelligence' was in a 1956 conference at Dartmouth College which has since influenced creative digital art developments.

The famous melting clocks in Salvador Dalí's 'The Persistence of Memory' were inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun.

The word 'cartoon' originally referred to preparatory sketches for fine art, rather than the animations we know today.

Artists Piet Mondrian and Snoop Dogg share the same birthday, March 7th.