learn something new every day

I’ve decided to mark this goal as done. I’ve been consistent for the past couple of months now in writing entries down. Some of them are just fillers though for when I couldn’t think of anything worth while writing down, which I think rather defeats the purpose of this goal, which is why I’ve decided to call it a day. Originally I was going to do it for a whole year, but I’ve now decided against that. I’m still working on another goal which involves researching artists so I’m still learning new things, just not every day.

My opinion counts for practically nothing at work. I deserve more credit than what I get.

Leon Battista Alberti was a Renaissance painter, well before his time, a lot like Leonardo da Vinci was. He was an elaborator of mathematical perspective and theoretician of art. He gave a scientific basis to works of art and placed painting, sculpture and architecture on the same level as literature and philosophy.

Leonard Baskin was an American artist who acheived many things in his lifetime. Not only was he a watercolourist and printmaker, but he was also a sculptor and illustrator of children’s books. (Something I would like to do one day!)

25% of your bones are located in your feet.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Why do puppies lick your face? They’re instinctively looking for scraps of food.

“While supporting himself with factory jobs, Milton Avery studied life drawing and painting at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford (enrolling sometime between 1905 and 1911). In 1917 he began working nights in order to paint in the daytime. The following year he transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford.
“Avery’s landscapes and seascapes of the early 1920s use the heavy impasto, light palette, and atmospheric mistiness of the American Impressionists Ernest Lawson and John Henry Twachtman. With his move to New York in 1925, where he encountered the work of Matisse and the pre-Cubist work of Picasso, Avery began to simplify forms into broad areas of close-valued color. Although Avery’s art became increasingly abstract, he never abandoned representational subject matter, painting figure groups, still lifes, landscapes, and seascapes. His mature style, developed by the mid-1940s, is characterized by a reduction of elements to their essential forms, elimination of detail, and surface patterns of flattened shapes, filled with arbitrary color in the manner of Matisse.

The artist Francis Bacon was born in Dublin and was gay. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just didn’t know that!)