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Staged naked happenings, covering nude performers in dots. Yayoi Kusama In 1515 he printed the West's first chart of the night sky. Albrecht Dürer Her very first feature film won a top prize at Venice. Shirin Neshat Collapsed painting outdoors in a storm and died days later. Paul Cezanne His job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle. Giotto Legend says the king painted the red cross onto Las Meninas. Diego Velázquez Let strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun. Marina Abramovic Ran a workshop of about 50, the largest of any old master. Raphael Tagged the Arnolfini Portrait: 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434.' Jan van Eyck He was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Katsushika Hokusai A set of her photos sold for 6.77 million dollars in 2014. Cindy Sherman In 1715 they trimmed The Night Watch to fit it on a wall. Rembrandt van Rijn Staged naked happenings, covering nude performers in dots. Yayoi Kusama In 1515 he printed the West's first chart of the night sky. Albrecht Dürer Her very first feature film won a top prize at Venice. Shirin Neshat Collapsed painting outdoors in a storm and died days later. Paul Cezanne His job interview for the Pope: a freehand perfect circle. Giotto Legend says the king painted the red cross onto Las Meninas. Diego Velázquez Let strangers use 72 objects on her, including a loaded gun. Marina Abramovic Ran a workshop of about 50, the largest of any old master. Raphael Tagged the Arnolfini Portrait: 'Jan van Eyck was here 1434.' Jan van Eyck He was around 70 when he made The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Katsushika Hokusai A set of her photos sold for 6.77 million dollars in 2014. Cindy Sherman In 1715 they trimmed The Night Watch to fit it on a wall. Rembrandt van Rijn Left the nation 300 oils and some 30,000 works on paper. J. M. W. Turner The Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works. Wassily Kandinsky Van Gogh loved his prints and copied two of them in oil. Utagawa Hiroshige Wrote over 300 poems on the side, about 60 of them to men. Michelangelo Animates films by erasing and redrawing one charcoal sheet. William Kentridge Said his melting clocks came from cheese melting in the sun. Salvador Dali So fond of his statue Zuccone, he swore his oaths by it. Donatello Her Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner. Artemisia Gentileschi At 53 he married 16-year-old Helena and painted her often. Peter Paul Rubens Learned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards. M F Husain Wrote 820 letters, over 650 of them to his brother Theo. Vincent van Gogh Police once grilled him as a suspect in the Mona Lisa theft. Pablo Picasso Left the nation 300 oils and some 30,000 works on paper. J. M. W. Turner The Nazis called him degenerate and seized 57 of his works. Wassily Kandinsky Van Gogh loved his prints and copied two of them in oil. Utagawa Hiroshige Wrote over 300 poems on the side, about 60 of them to men. Michelangelo Animates films by erasing and redrawing one charcoal sheet. William Kentridge Said his melting clocks came from cheese melting in the sun. Salvador Dali So fond of his statue Zuccone, he swore his oaths by it. Donatello Her Judith was so bloody a duchess hid it in a dark corner. Artemisia Gentileschi At 53 he married 16-year-old Helena and painted her often. Peter Paul Rubens Learned to paint by making giant Bollywood billboards. M F Husain Wrote 820 letters, over 650 of them to his brother Theo. Vincent van Gogh Police once grilled him as a suspect in the Mona Lisa theft. Pablo Picasso Looking for someone?
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